We have already discussed how to evaluate or review a website in the areas of Technology, Ownership, Traffic, Age, Links and Content. Simply we call it as TotalC. Read more on The Basis Of Evaluating WebSites.
Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can publish on the web. That means it's up to you to determine which sites are reliable and which aren't worth your time.
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What Is Web Design?
Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers.
The process of designing Web pages, Web sites, Web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography.
How about evaluating a website based on its design? Here are few design evaluation questions that you any one can use for evaluating a website design. Also follow this link to read how to evaluate or review a website in the areas of Technology, Ownership, Traffic, Age, Links and Content.
QUALITY OF GRAPHIC AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT
- Are the graphics clear and easy to understand?
- Are the audio and video components high quality?
- Is the graphic and multimedia content likely to attract and appeal to young people?
- Is the overall site design pleasing?
- Is the design attention grabbing, but not distracting?
- Is the design likely to appeal to most young people?
- Are the individual pages so long that excessive scrolling is necessary?
- Is the text easy to read (based on font appearance, size, and color)?
INCLUSION OF LINKS
- Are there a relatively large number of links?
- Are the links related to the main subjects of the website?
- Are the links generally high quality?
- Are the links evaluated or described at all?
AMOUNT OF GRAPHIC AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT
- Does the site include much graphic and multimedia content, or is it primarily composed of plain text?
- Is there a relatively low percentage of advertising content?
- LEVEL OF INTERACTIVITY
- Is there a relatively high level of interactivity?
- Is there a method for contacting the authoring/sponsoring body for questions and comments?
- Is navigation within the website fairly easy?
- Are the organization and contents obvious from the opening page?
- Is there a link to the opening page on each subsequent page?
- If the website is large, is an internal search function available?
With so much choice available to customers, web designers / companies must ensure their products and services are meaningful and relevant. Design unlocks better business – better thinking, better approaches, and better customer connections.
Design is a verb. Design is about doing something – a process more than a product. As already said, Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can publish on the web. But to make the design stand out, one needs to be more creative.
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