Camp Sacramento Group Project Evaluation

Instructor Comments

Peer Comments

Question Average Score
Site's ability to allow users to quickly identify the site's purpose and major features. 9.15
Use of a consistent navigation scheme(s) across the site/sub-sites. 9.00
Use of consistent color and style from page to page. 8.62
Ability of site to be meaningfully rendered by most web browsers. 8.62
Use of supplemental navigation features (site map/index; search page). 8.77
Use of subdirectories to group content for better site management and allow future growth 9.23

Constructive Criticism
honestly, i think it's the best project out of the four. the only feature scheme that seems out of place is the choics of colors for the nav. bar on the bottom of the screen. the nav. bar, if possible should be moved to the top so that user doesn't have to scroll to bottom first before moving on to other categories. probably don't need

Comments and Praise
strongest feature is the presentation of the site, the side nav bar, and the links within the text to immediately while reading jump to another page.
Nice navigational scheme on side
Nice navigational scheme on side
Good lay out, Cabin search is also nice
green nav bar is cool, and the way it lights up. Appropriate design. Appropriate information.
Nice use of style sheets, good lay out.
Good guarding of java script features. Lots of room to add more stuff. Very handy site for users and administrators. Good frame buster.
Exeelen Content. You left nothing out. It was a site that accomplised it's goal.
the strongest part of the site is that i like the image of the map, telling the web surfer how far they have to drive in order to get there.
Good Use of supplemental navigation features (site map/index; search page). Nice graphics and database. Nice directory for image folder (easy to maintain). Overall, it's a very well-designed site.
VERY NICE !!!!!! the way it is organize is very good and esy
Everything was very purposfully planned, good organization, good navigation, good presentation.
good navigation

Instructor Comments

Good job. The site provides good information and made me want to learn more. Excellent project documentation.

The home page is fairly large. The left navigation panel graphics add a fair amount of weight, both with graphics and script. You might want to consider style sheets as a lighter option -- you could come close to replicating the mouseover functionality for browsers that support it, and just provide regular text links for older browsers.
Many of your graphics are fairly large. Make sure you shrink/crop them as much as possible, and experiment with the compression settings on the JPEGs. Often you can get away with a fair amount of compression on JPEGs without giving up too much image quality.
Be careful when you do not use the default visited/unvisited link colors. Your choices are confusing, as they are essentially the opposite of the default scheme for most browsers.
I did not check all of them, but some of your PDF files really could have been converted to HTML (e.g., activities.pdf).  In general, you only want to provide content in PDF format when the content spans multiple HTML pages and might be easier to read at home in a single compiled document, or when the PDF format allows you to format the content in a more complex fashion than is practical in HTML.
In your project proposal, make sure you provide milestones that explicitly require the client to review/test the deliverable AND approve it.

Suggestion: When you put this into production, try to have the "How to Reach Us" page include a form for asking questions. Depending on your server, you probably can connect the form to software that sends the form results as an email to where ever you want -- then people can communicate with you regardless of whether they are using a computer with their email installed.