files: evaluations.html

 

Objective: You will be able to evaluate websites and web pages, to see what works and what doesn't on websites.

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.

Site evaluation
Create a new web page called evaluations.html. You should evaluate 5 sites. Two should be for educational institutions, two should be commercial (selling something) web sites, and one can be anything. A "site" can be one page or several. If you evaluate a huge site, just look at the front page and pages that you can go to right from the front page. For each site, write a paragraph that answers the following quesions:

Who will use this site?
What information is on the main page?
What links are on the main page?
Are the buttons (clickable areas) clear?
Are images distracting or useful?
What fonts and font sizes are used on the page? Make a page and compare them if you are not sure.
What are your overall impressions of the page?

1. Create evaluations.html, so that:

Evaluations.html contains evaluations of 5 different websites (2 educational, 2 commercial, 1 other).
Evaluations.html contains evaluations that answer the questions above.
Evaluations.html contains links to each of the websites that are evaluated, and these links open in a new browser window. To do this, make the target "New", in the properties window.