Week 9: Rubric

CurrentSF has launched! Here is my Rubric Critique!

Design: 4 points
"The page design is visually pleasing, supports the page content, and is appropriate for its intended audience"

Images: 4 points
"The images are well designed and mechanically effective, without distortion, excessive dithering, haloes or other negative graphic effects; images include Alt, Height, and Width attributes (may be in CSS) and offer initial thumbnail graphic if file size is large . The images were created with Fireworks."

Layout: 4 points
"Pages use an effective and uncluttered layout, using background color to enhance the readability of text and the appearance of graphics; users with a 800 X 600 monitor don't have to scroll to the right."

Text: 4 points
"Text on the site is well written and presented effectively, using readable fonts and text design and without major mechanical errors (grammar, punctuation, and spelling)."

Navigation: 4 points
"The site is well organized and easy to navigate; the relationship between pages is clear and it's easy to find an individual page; each page is clearly linked to another; links are appropriate, clearly labeled, and have a definite purpose; page titles are appropriate to content and have a definite purpose."

Mechanics: 6 points
"Everything on the site works: there are no missing graphics or broken links; it can be read with Explorer (Windows) and Safari and shows equally well on PC and Mac."

Download time: 4 points
"The site download time is reasonable, and doesn't make extreme demands on the user's patience; multimedia elements load quickly or file size is indicated with option to download."

HTML/XHTML/CSS: 6 points
"The XHTML/HTML code is largely clean, although there may be a few questionable tags. Some pages validate as XHTML compliant. The site uses some CSS elements to control portions of design, content and layout."

Credibility: 3 points
"Site includes author, contact person with e-mail address, date created or updated, and no copyright infringement."

Instructor Review Only
Flash MX 2004 Techniques

Total Score: 39
(not including instructor review).

Week 8: User Testing

Since CurrentSF has launched, I decided to network with a couple of buddies who weren't web designers. I thought they should test the site and give me feedback. In my mind, I thought this would be a perfect idea since they are the in the range of our target audience.

Here's what Angel Jomar Cruz Vega said:
"Simple, clean and easy to navigate. Also very readable. It doesn't look busy with images but it doesn't look empty either. I find it to be well balanced."

Here's what Lia Farantos said:
Visually pleasing, design looks very well done. I like the transitions with the headlines."