Website Evaluation Worksheet Questions 1st Website
The First Look Kudler fine foods
What was your initial impression of the site? Did you feel bored, overwhelmed, or confused? The home page was set up nicely. It was elegant and served its purpose at gathering the attention of the viewer.
How much time did it take to realize the purpose of the site? The site is designed to help customers take a look at their stock of fine foods.
What is the target audience for the site? The target audience of the site is anyone looking for wines for the people of the
Did the site look the same in multiple browsers, if multiple browsers were available? No. The fonts were different in Internet Explorer from the fonts in Google Chrome. The differences were not that big but they were still a different font.
Was there contact information immediately available? There was only the location information for the company. Otherwise there was no contact information on the webpage.
Were there indications that you could trust the site? What were the indications? There was a terms and conditions page. This gives the visitor how their information would be used and when.
Was the text easy to read and easily scanned so that you did not have to read every word? The text was easy to read but was not set up for an easy scanning. However, scanning was better on other pages rather than the home page.
What are your thoughts about the layout and colors of the site? What impression do they give? The layout was a little confusing at first. There are links on multiple levels and the changes from the links were not visible unless you scrolled the screen down. It was really hard to determine if the page loaded unless you did unnecessary scrolling before reading anything on the page.
Finding Your Way Around
How was the navigation organized? The navigation was organized by the links on the two tiers. There was minimal information on each page but each page also provided adequate information.
When using the navigation, was it intuitive or did you need to use some trial-and-error to figure out what was behind each link? To figure out what was behind each link, a person had to scroll down to even tell if the link worked. Then the person had to scroll back up to take in the beginning of the page.
Was there a clear way back to the home page from every page of the site? There was a home button on each page so it was not hard to go back to the home page.
Did you find the navigation to be consistent throughout the site? The navigation was consistent. The links were on all pages and each page was set up the same way.
Were there any pages on the site that forced you to use the back button because you could not figure out another way to move forward? No. There was no use of the back button while viewing this website.
The Content
How easy was it to find the important information? Was it prominently displayed or buried in detailed paragraphs? Sometimes the information was buried in paragraphs, but the information was easily found on some of the other pages.
On pages with lots of content, were there features to help you find what you were looking for, such as links across the top of the page that took you to other parts of the page? The only page that had lengthy amounts of reading was the page with the terms and conditions. This page did not have any links to other parts of the page.
If there were articles on the site, could you tell when they were written? There was no articles on the site, however the site had the same copyright information on each of the pages.
Did images on the pages contribute to the user experience? The images on the site were partially to show the quality of the products but also showed what each page was.
Was the text well written and free of mistakes? Did you find any spelling errors? Were there broken links? There were no broken links that were found. Also, If there were mistakes in the paragraphs, We were unable to spot them.
Your Thoughts
What impressed you the most about this site? What originally impressed us at the start of the page, quickly became an issue. The page had a very large changing picture image that took up much of the screen. All of the pictures in this area were really elegant and sophisticated. However because this was so large it was hard to see what was on the home page.
What features on this site would you want to make sure to incorporate into your own site? We would want to include the ability to have all the pages look the same. This is helpful and keeps a person interested.
What would you change if you were the owner of the site? We would change the size of the image in the middle of the page as well as inability to tell whether or not the page changed without having to scroll down the page. We would also switch which links were on the lower tier from the top tier.
What features on this site would you make sure to avoid when creating your own site? We would not have the page set so that it was hard to tell whether or not the page changed.