| Question | Average Score |
| Site's ability to allow users to quickly identify the site's purpose and major features. | 7.91 |
| Use of a consistent navigation scheme(s) across the site/sub-sites. | 9.00 |
| Use of consistent color and style from page to page. | 9.09 |
| Ability of site to be meaningfully rendered by most web browsers. | 8.36 |
| Use of supplemental navigation features (site map/index; search page). | 6.64 |
| Use of subdirectories to group content for better site management and allow future growth | 9.45 |
Constructive Criticism
Your site has lots of "dead" white space between bullets, try using
instead of between bullets. Also, as it is expected from re-using some of your content
from a previous site, some of the content pages are broken.
Search feature can be located more prominently, hard to locate.
The color isn't the best.
Some of the text is larger than other.
The home page is a little too much information
There is quite a bit of information on the splash page as well as the category pages. I 'm
not sure if this could have been avoided since the department itself requires all this
information. The web site itself is not aesthetically pleasing, i think it's a little hard
to navigate, but this goes back to the 'too much' information problem.
Too many links on the main page.
I think the pages are rather busy. I would devide and organize a bit more but I think the
site is a huge improvement form what it was.
Contents and links are too cluttered on the home page.
I feel that the site was better then it was, but the site still seemed a little jumbo and
to crowded and mixed up. Everything seems crowded together. Plus the big squres of color
blocks didn't make must sense.
Good Organize and it looks like they did a lot of research about the subject searching for
the weakness of the old web site to make a new one better. There was no way to search the
site exept trhough out the links they had. You could only search for classes.
Comments and Praise
Good choice of colors BUT beware the colors are not on the safety pallette, so some
browsers may not see the same colors.
Navigation scheme is well defined
Great information - I will send my classmates and students there! I needed that info!!!!
The computer services page
much better improvement about navigation scheme
I think the strongest feature is the concise names of the links. The names indicate
exactly where the link will take you. Compared to the original ecs web site, this new one
at least has categories, for example the newsletters. On the original page there are 3
links to 3 newsletters and not just one link to take you to all the newsletters.
Having important news on the main page, able to help many students
I think the amount of links to all the important ECS information is really impressive. It
must have been fairly duanting reorganizing the mish-mash the was there before.
Organize the home page so that it will look easy to read and identify content.
navigation is good and simple. consistent looking site
I would have put the web site on the screen at first and explain the goal of it then
navegate and at the very end I would have talk about the budget.
Overall you did a good job revising an existing site where you could not alter the content all that much. Certainly your site would provide much better service than the past one. Your presentation was good -- it would have helped if you had more forcefully stated that you were obliged to keep most of the content and links intact.
Many pages did not have scale to 640x480 screen. While most people on campus access with larger resolutions, people at home will use this lesser resolutions, and designing pages correctly to this resolution will also solve problems for alternative browsers such as WebTV, handheld PCs, etc.
Some pages had several different bullet types going on. In general, I would recommend you not use bullets in the left-hand navigation panel -- they just take up extra space. When using graphical bullets, the ALT attribute should be set to something that looks like a bullet, e.g., "- " or "* ".
Project proposal did a good job of narrowing the scope of your project. In a document like this, make sure all of your tables are formatted similarly, and don't use centering for sentences -- only headings and very short phrases.
The various colored text boxes on the home page seem a bit jumbled. They should all be lined up similarly or some other discernable pattern. You may also want to use a different, contrasting color for these boxes to differentiate them from the standard navigation features.