CIT 230 Student Web Site Evaluation Form

Please fill out the form being as realistic as possible. Few sites are perfect, but few sites are complete failures. The numbers in parentheses refer to the course objectives. Remember, your evaluation should be based on our class subjects and concepts. Thank you.

All fields are required, except the comments field (which is strongly encouraged).

  1. The required pages (Site Plan, Style Guide, Colophon and Contact Page) are all found via links in the footer of each page — 1 pt for each link (must be present on all pages). [Obj. 4]
  2. Read the site plan. Does it appear to accurately describe the plan for this web site (you may need to provide a score for this after going through the web site)? — 2 pts if true, 1 pt if partially true, 0 if no or missing [Obj. 4]
  3. Read the style guide. Does it describe a visual plan for this web site? — 2 pts if true, 1 pt if partially true, 0 if no or missing [Obj. 5]
  4. Does each page maintain the "Look and Feel" as described in the style guide (you may need to provide a score for this after going through the web site)? — 2 pts per page if true, 1 pt if partially true, 0 if no or missing [Obj. 5]
  5. Does the visual aspect of the site follow the PARC principles? — 2 pts if true, 1 pt if partially true, 0 if no [Obj. 5]
  6. Use the contact page. Does it appear to work? — 2 pts if yes, 0 if no or missing [Obj. 4]
  7. Read the colophon page. Does it appear to accurately describe how usability has been implemented (you may need to provide a score for this after going through the web site)? — 2 pts if true, 1 pt if partially true, 0 if missing [Obj. 4]
  8. Is there a common navigation system that is easy to use for moving through the site? Does it remain consistent on each page of the site? — 2 pts per page if true, 1 pt if partially true, 0 if missing [per page, including required pages] [Obj. 4]
  9. Click through the navigation of the site and look at the URL. Examine the properties of images on web pages, specifically the paths used for those images. Does the site demonstrate a clear organizational structure? — 2 pts per page if true, 1 pt if partially true, 0 if missing [per page, including required pages] [Obj. 4]
  10. Click through the navigation of the site and look at the URL. Examine the properties of images on web pages, specifically the paths used for those images. Does the site follow the naming rules - Lower case, no spaces, no special characters — 2 pts per page if true, 1 pt if only one error, 0 if more than one error [per page, including required pages] [Obj. 4]
  11. As you move through the site, is it fully operational? - No broken links, graphics or pages — 2 pts per page if true, 1 pt if only one error, 0 if more than one error (including required pages) [Obj. 3]
  12. As you move through the site, is it content rich? Does the site have meaningful content that would draw a user looking for that type of content back to it? — 2 pts per page if true, 0 if content is sparse or absent (including required pages) [Obj. 3]
  13. When you come to a web page that has images that automatically load, examine the file size of the images. Is the combined size of all images under 180k? — 2 pts per page if true, 0 if not (including required pages) [Obj. 4]
  14. Validate each page in the site, including the required pages. Each page should validate as HTML5 compliant with no errors. — 2 pts per page if valid, 1 pt if only one error, 0 if more than one error [per page] [Obj. 1]
  15. Pages contain a valid external CSS stylesheet (Screen media type). View the source code for each page, including the required pages. Insure that a <link> element exists in the <head> of the page. The <link> element should point to an external CSS file and contain a media="screen" attribute. — 2 pts per page if both are true, 1 pt if only one is true, 0 if both are missing (including required pages)[Obj. 2]
  16. Pages contain a valid external CSS stylesheet. Validate the CSS on each web page, including required pages, ignore any CSS3 or proprietary selectors (starting with a hyphen). — 2 pts per page if the CSS is valid, 1 pt if a single error, 0 if more than one error (includes required pages)[Obj. 2]
  17. Contains a minimum of 14 student developed pages (excluding the 4 professor required pages). — 2 pts for each page. (3)
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