Assignment 5: Site Evaluation and Design

Slow down. Successful site design does not consist of firing up Dreamweaver, pasting in some cool images, and saving the page. A thoughtful site will have well organized information along with images that help the user understand what the site is about. The background image, if there is one, should not make it difficult to read the text.

There are two parts to this assignment. The first is to evaluate some sites, and the second is to design your own site.


Site evaluation - you should evaluate 5 sites.Two should be for educational institutions, two for commercial (selling something) web sites, and one can be anything. For each site, write a paragraph that answers the following quesions:
  1. Who will use this site?
  2. What information is on the main page?
  3. What links are on the main page?
  4. Are the buttons (clickable areas) clear?
  5. Are images distracting or useful?
  6. What are your overall impressions of the page?

Part II of Assignment 5

Site Design - Time to start designing your site.

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