Students Evaluate Students

Instructions: You must evaluate at least four websites (other than your own). You have been specifically assigned three websites. Choose one additional websites in addition to the ones assigned so that you come up with four evaluations.

After carefully reviewing and reading each site, thoughtfully fill out the following information FOR EACH WEBSITE. Be sure that you base each of your evaluations and suggestions on the project goal and intended audience for each website, not on your personal likes and dislikes.

These evaluations should be printed and brought to the final on exam day – Dec. 13, 10am.

Questions:

What foururls will you be evaluating?

Identity -#1 (change this number for each evaluation – you should have 5)

  • What is the url of the website you are evaluating?

What is the purpose of this website?

  • List at least three things on the site that made you aware of the purpose of the website?
  • Is the purpose clear? Confusing?
  • What suggestions would you offer to increase the clarity of the website goal?
  • Who do you think is the target audience for this website?
  • Why?

Navigation

  • Are the order and sequencing of the navigation items understandable?
  • Would you suggest any change in the listing of navigation for the clarity of the website? If not describe how it is ordered and why it works as it is.
  • Would you suggest a different order of navigation items?
  • Any change in what each item could be called?
  • Are sub-menus used and if so do they help or hinder your ability to peruse the content?
  • Is the inclusion of sub-menus intuitive and sensible?
  • What changes would you suggest to navigation?

Media

  • Are any pictures or media (video, sound etc…) included in this website? List them and their location.
  • Do they enhance or detract from achieving your understanding of the project goal?
  • How?
  • Are pictures given good SEO usage? How?
  • Are the pictures trimmed, cropped and presented well?
  • Is the usage of pictures or media (video, sound etc…) applied consistently throughout the website?
  • What suggestions would you make in the usage of media to help to achieve your understanding of the project goal of this website?

Page and Post content

  • List the pages and posts included in this website.
  • Is there text on every page and post of the website?
  • Is the text meaningful to the topic/title of the page/posts? Would it meet good SEO requirements? How?
  • Is there some kind of information on the home page that helps you to understand what the website is about?
  • Is there a page with more information about the author of this website? Does this information enhance the project goal of the website? Why/How?
  • Is there a way to contact the author of the website?
  • How are posts used on this website?
  • How are pages used on this website?
  • After reading each page /post, is the text written in an understandable way. Are there grammatical mistakes such as misspellings, words not capitalized or inconsistently capitalized, incomplete or rambling sentences, information that makes no sense? List any instances that you see.
  • Are the pages “readable” – headers of appropriate hierarchy incorporated, paragraphs not too long, ordered or unordered-listsused? Describe any pages where these characteristics could be improved and how. If you see no need for improvement, describe the qualities of one page that represents good usage.
  • Are the page/post attributes handled consistently throughout the website – all text, titles and images aligned consistently and predictably throughout the website. Describe pages where this is not done –or – if done well describe the decisions applied to the page/post(s).
  • Is the choice of font readable and appropriate for the site? In what way?
  • Is the use of color and styling consistent and appropriate for this website? Describe this usage.
  • Do the number and amount of content on the site create a fully functional, investigated website that serves the needs of the intended audience? If not what do you think is missing? What additional content would you recommend including?
  • What suggestions would you make in the application of content for this website to help to achieve your understanding of the project goal?

Sidebars/Footers – Widgets

  • Are sidebars and/or footer areas with widgets used on this website? If so, what widgets are included? Where are sidebars/and or footers used?
  • What widgets are used and in which area?
  • Is their inclusion helpful in achieving the project goals of the site? How/Why not?
  • Are the widget titles meaningful - how?
  • Are default widgets removed or customized for the website?
  • What suggestions would you make as regards the sidebar/footer choices and the widgets included or not included that could aide in this website achieving its project goal?

Audience

  • Are comments utilized? Where? Is this a good choice for this website and why?
  • Are social media shares or links utilized? Are they functioning? Is this a good choice for this website and why?
  • Are there any other audience features used such as – forums, multiple authors, questionnaires, forms?

Customization

  • Do you see or can you identify any customization applied to this website? Special plug-in features or functionality?
  • Do these features help or hinder the functionality and the project goal of the website? How/Why not?

OVERALL

  • Is the theme choice a good one for the project goal of the website? How/Why?
  • Are there any components included that are not functioning, links or images missing, 401 pages, etc…?
  • Did this website meet the minimal requirements for this class? If not what is missing?
  • Do you have any suggestions not covered above to help this author in the final completion of their website?
  • Overall based on the class requirements and the project goal of the website – how would you rate the success of this website on a scale of one to ten?