Analyzing Course Web Sites


Take a brief look at the following web sites. Let's analyze the following sites from the viewpoint of:


CHEM 221: Instrumental Analysis
NR 378: Integrating Analyses of Natural Resource Issues
NR 270: Toxics and Hazardous Substances
EE100: Electrical Engineering Concepts I
HST 19: Western World Since 1945
GEOG 121: Mapping Our Changing World
BSAD 145: Managing the Information System Resource
SOC 222: Aging and Ethical Issues
 
 

Navigation and Design: The Student View

1) What elements should be in a web page to make it easy to use?
2) What elements make it visually appealing?
- navrubric.html

File Management: The Creator's View

1) Pick one of the sites listed above. Draw a map of the site and include the following in your drawing:
- the server name
- the account name, departmental account name, or directory name
- the sub-folder names/structure
- the file name of the "home" page
- the URLs to which three links go
- how has the designer organized the files? Are they all in one folder, in several folders named for each course, in folders named by date?

Here's an example of a web site map 
2) Now browse through the web sites listed above and answer the following. Which site:
- is in a personal account?
- is on a UVM server that is not zoo?
- is in a departmental/course account?
- is a non-UVM course?
- uses frames?
- uses the UVM web template?


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 Update: May 2002