Old Dominion University Student Web Site Analysis

I am glad to present our report on “Analysis of Centennial College’s Online Portal”. I would like to thank you for being available to help at all times. I would also like to thank Taranjeet Kaur for her collaborative work on this report.

LD Online is a website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. LD online stands for Learning Disabilities online. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children can find guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders, and so much more. This website can be very bennififical to students, teachers and parents of learning disabilities because it provides information on what a learning disability is, the common signs of learning disabilities, how to respond to these types of disabilities, parent tips, and lastly help and guidance for all teachers, students and parents. LD online offers accurate and up-to-date information

To standardize the appearance of the webpages, a template will be designed. The template will standardize the colors, margin, fonts and items that should be published on every page, and in the same location on the page. While designing the template, they need to keep in mind of how users read, rather how the scan the page. They do not read the page from left to rather the scan the page from top to bottom. To help ease users access content and for readability, the width of the margins and the size fonts need to be considered, how they will appear on various size screens, including mobile devices. To avoid distractions minimal colors, sound and video should be used at a minimal, animated backgrounds should be avoided, as it may just add to any visual glare from a screen, and difficult to view on smaller

This course introduces effective Web design principles and the essential role of the Web designer in today's business environment. Topics covered include site architecture, page layout, navigation, content, functionality, and usability. Students will evaluate existing Web sites and apply best practices to prototype a unique design using a Web authoring application.

Liberty University Online (LUO) is the largest private non-profit online university in the nation and the world’s largest Christian university. Founded in 1985 by Dr. Farwell and the people of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia it now has an online enrollment of over 95,000 students. LUO offers over 232 online academic programs, with 100 concentrations. Seventy (70) of its academic programs are undergraduate, 138 are graduate, 2 are post master’s and 22 are doctorate degrees. LUO’s students are 39% Male and 61% Female. The majority of its distance education students are adults, between the ages of 25 and 50 years (Moore and Kearsley, 2012). Active duty, veterans

The webpage project focuses on website design and layout design. The project has practical application for librarians creating a blog or developing a website to advocate library concerns. This project taught skills such as embedding photos, making hyperlinks, creating blog entries, and developing a webpage with multiple pages. I received a letter grade of A on the project and the instructor commented “excellent job on the website

According to the analysis and evaluation of the ENLACE NM and SSS TRIO websites, both pertain to the same discourse community: educational programs. Both communities offer free services to students supporting them with their educational endeavors. A website is used as an essential communication tool to invite a specific population to become part of their program and reach their ultimate mission. Although ENLACE NM and SSS TRIO websites promote the importance of higher education, they differ in goals, language, the audience they serve, and the overall organization and layout of their page.

Cathedral High School is a prestigious and catholic school at El Paso available strictly for men and 9th graders to 12th graders trying to accomplish excellence in their students, preparing them for their college studies. The school's mission referred in their website is "Cathedral High School teach students lead through holistic and competitive environments, and also cultivate our school's intellectual, athletic and spiritual gifts in them." The mission is accompanied by a beautiful quote from the bible. This essay will review Cathedral's website aspects regarding intended audience, understandable report of their core message, structure, and if its organization is convenient enough to surf on it.

This paper is a written evaluation of three websites that were designed to reach a specific target audience. All three sites' reach their target audience, however they accomplish this in a slightly different way. During this paper, we will discuss the strength and weaknesses of each site, the design criteria used to evaluate them, and how to improve some of the weaknesses associated with each site.

BBC bite size provides free online support resources such as information on topics, activities on topics and tests, to see if the users understand the topic that they have revising for. This is used by children in primary schools, the website provides learning activities for Key stage 1 to 3. The website also offers learning resource for students in secondary schools dong GCSE’s and Alevels, the website provides learning resources for subjects such as maths GCSE.

Smoking is bad for you, so why do it? Quit.com is a website created to guide smokers in their journey to quit smoking with the help of Nicorette and NicoDerm. The purpose of quit.com is to persuade smokers to quit and to use their products, which is successfully done by the use of Pathos, Logos, and Kiaros. The appearance of the website is effective for the audience and the content is well organized and easy to navigate.

College websites serve a variety of purposes for prospective and current students, which include, but are not limited to, generating information, data collection, and facilitating online transactions. Accelerated accessibility of web presence through a variety of platforms, from desktops to smartphones, propels websites to the forefront of many colleges’ introduction to prospective students. The aesthetic composition of websites is as significant as is practicality in our modern technological age, and mastery or shortcomings in either attribute can engender positive or negative assumptions respectively from visitors. Approximately 80 percent of website visitors assume that the design of a website is reflective of the entity it represents, according to researchers (Lowry 63). Subsequently, I have decided to conduct an analysis of Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School’s (AJMLS) website (Front) due to recent interactions with the site while applying for admission. During this essay, I will explore the aesthetics, practicality, and inconsistencies inherent in the site when accessed on mobile platforms as compared to desktops.

In my opinion what makes a good web page? I have been on the net for the last, can 't really believe it, coming to ten years now. From the conception to now, I have been a regular surfer on the web, visiting thousands of pages a month, mostly in search of some thing or another. Most searches have lead to even more searches but some times I come up tops. Having been used to the all text sites of the beginning, and seeing the first implementations of more graphic based sites, there was a three-year lapse where I rarely got to surfing and missed a whole evolution in web page. When I returned in full to surfing, I discovered the face of the internet have started to change. Buttons with

Sometimes it seems like the computer game industry is dying, crushed to death by its own bulk. Every year more and more gaming companies get gobbled up into huge conglomerates like Electronic Arts, companies that mostly put out trash that is technically and visually impressive, but devoid of concept and content. However, there are some small gaming companies that buck the trend. While mostly just small groups of programmers and artists, some are huge unions of fans who, irritated with the dropping quality of computer games, have decided to use the power of the internet to get together and to produce games tailor-made to their personal preferences.

Web sites are just like magazines, newspapers, brochures, menus, or even directions on how to make nitroglycerin from house-hold goods, in that they all have to be put together in such a manner that whoever is reading or browsing over it will be able to clearly distinguish this from that. In this sense, a critique of any particular web site will have justification, while carefully considering also that this is an altogether new medium of information exchange. Now, all of this talk of togetherness is actually a general reference to basic design principles, such as color coordination, if color is used, text size, font choice/ style, art integration, accessibility, and just plain and simple design of the page. For