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Web Tour
Site Critique Form

While you're exploring and discovering, you also need to be training your eye. I want you to look at webs on two levels: content and media. Take, for example, a site like our course web. Of course, you'll look at it as a student getting information from the instructor. I'd also like you to put on your new digital developer's hat and look at its shapes and colors and images.

  virtual mixed
provide
Information
news or entertainment
Nando Times
brochureware
Ethan Allen
perform
a function
Internet tasks
Liszt
direct sales
Cathay PacificAirlines

For this assignment, I would like you to visit some sites related to your course project and take us on a two-minute tour of one of them. Your tour should elaborate and illustrate the short answers you will email to me when you submit this form.

To get full credit, please respond to every one of these questions. Give short answers here and longer answers in the oral part of your presentation.

Tour Guide

Title of Site 

URL http://

Publisher
(host, sponsor, copyright holder)

Last revision or copyright date

type of site (see table above)

Content

We'll pay special attention to content later. For the moment, choose only the site's primary purpose:

to inform
to educate
to entertain
to persuade (or sell)

Primary audience

Structure

Navigation

Does it make you wait or can you go anywhere anytime?
How long did it take you to learn to navigate comfortable?
Did a click ever take you somewhere you didn't expect to go? Yes    No
Are there enough links for both forward and backward movement? Yes    No

Organizing principle

How is the site organized overall?
(examples: like a book; chronologically; product by product)

Could you draw a picture or diagram of that organization? To give you the maximum flexibility, use whatever medium you find easiest -- from a paint program to a doodle on a dinner napkin -- and hand it in separately.

Language

First impression

Can you can tell where you are immediately? Yes No
Do the opening screens have strong eye appeal?

Do they make you want to continue exploring? Yes No

Graphics / sound / video

decoration only
decoration and information
crucial to understanding

Mechanics

Frustration factor

How fast did the page download? If you had to wait, what seemed to slow it down?

one big graphic? Yes No
a large number of small graphics? Yes No
interactive or wizbang fancy stuff? Yes No

 

Was your computer able to handle all the fancy stuff?  Yes No

Did the wizbang stuff get in the way of the content?  Yes No

Vocabulary

Did you see any objects you didn't know the name of? 
(examples: type of button; some geekspeak on an error message)
Please list them in the box below.

Further information

Was a contact person or email address readily available? Yes No

General

What did you like best?

What did you like least?

In print, how would it be done?

Person to person (no computers, no books, no pictures), how could it be done?

Overall rating

Comments about the site

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last update: May 26, 1998
by Douglas Anderson
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