The purpose of this exercise is to give you practice in evaluating what makes a well designed web page. 

Evaluate the web pages for 2 of your class mates.  Cut and paste the text from this form into an e-mail, write your evaluation, and send to your professor. He will then compile the results and share them with the people whose pages are being evaluated as well as give you credit for doing the evaluation.

 

Web page being evaluated:

 

Required Elements

____A title in the title bar

____A title on the page itself

____A background color or background image

____Some text

____A mailto link if you wish

____An unordered list of three links to other web sites

____A picture with text wrapped around it

____Graphics on your web page should include alternate text

____The university web page disclaimer

 

Design

Design considerations may include among other things: the overall look of the page, tasteful and effective use of color, readability of text against background colors or images, effective organization and layout of content.  Problems with design might also include problems with broken links or images that do not load, or long download times. 

 

What are some of the good elements of the page’s design? 

 

 

What elements of the page’s design need to be improved?

 

 

Content

What do you especially like about the content on the page?

 

 

What suggestions do you have for improving the content of the page?