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Website Evaluation: Victoria University Library

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I am currently working on a new assignment for the Web and Intranet Content Management course I’m currently taking (INFO561). The assignment calls for us to write a report evaluating a website of our choosing, using the concepts learned during the course of the trimester.

One of the main reasons I enrolled in this course was to provide myself with opportunities to consider the design of our own library website at Victoria, in preparation for the library’s planned total re-design of our web presence later this year. For this upcoming assignment, I’ve decided to select the Victoria library website as my target, in the hope that it will help stimulate and refine my ideas for potential discussions with the re-design team.

The assignment reads as follows:

A report on your evaluation of a web site, focusing on how it handles key elements of good information design which should include: navigation, security, accessibility, writing style, metadata and overall effectiveness of the site for defined user groups, and needs.

Value: 60%

Due: 5pm, 18 February 2008.

Length: 2000 words

This assignment will be marked using the following criteria:

Understanding of principles of good information design
Range of aspects of web design covered
Selection of criteria to analyse the site, and methodologies used to apply these
Written communication skills
Presentation

Written communication will be assessed by: well developed and well structured arguments, fluent, grammatically correct English, correct spelling and citations.

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