criteria

May 28

June 9

I. Thesis or purpose of your site— What do want your audience to learn?

a. Statement of purpose, either explicit on the top page, or implicit but easy for user to determine,  see for example,  http://polyland.lib.calpoly.edu/overview/ThisProject/index.html

b. Everything on the site supports this purpose.

c.Items irrelevant to the thesis or purpose

d.Value and validity of this purpose

3

Good start.  Purpose is clear and so is layout of top page.

I’d like to see the purpose expanded to provide more of the history and background of the place including the financing, governance and maintenance.  Also some responses from people who use it and describe its positive features and drawbacks. 

Not necessary but desireable would be a section on the controversies connected with it, including the agricultural and environmental impacts and effects of lights and noise on neighbors

4.5

Background page presents good information on the selection controversy with ag, but not environmental impacts—which would have been found in reading the EIR. 

II. Integration with Cal Poly Land project’s  purposes and design format

4. Format and design work well.  Pictures should be captioned and where relevant, credited.  I don’t think centering of the text looks good.  Try justifying to both margins or only to the left.

5

All local material, good use of maps, fine photography, addresses land use and land use issues, format is attractive and compatible.  Nice use of interview as well as other sources of information

III. Extent and Navigation properties

a. Is there enough material to require 5 to 8 minutes for the user to navigate through the site and absorb what it has to offer.

b. Are there clear , consistent, logical and interesting ways to navigate through the site,  for example “Explore Cal Poly Land by place or theme or collection using the navigation  bar to the left of every page.  Each of the links there leads to further subdivisions”

2.5

Still quite  thin on material.  How about some photographs of games in progress, interviews with players and spectators, background about the namesakes, discussion of engineering and design accomplishments and drawbacks, account of utilization of facilities.  Nighttime use would be visually interesting and also address controversy of sustainability.

A short film clip of exciting action would be nice too.

An image map allowing clicking on part of your map to lead to the relevant pages, along with menubar at top would be an addition.

NCAA link is broken

5

generous increase of materials; navigation is fluid and intuitive

good navigation between pages and up and down on pages

IV. Quality of Material Presented

a. Text—clarity, sufficiency, conciseness, elegance, accuracy, including documentation

b. Images or multimedia elements

c. Integrations of text and images—their relevance and mutual illumination

3.5

filenames and text need editing for spelling and grammar and punctuation, but are overall concise and clear.  Sources need documentation

5

good use of captions and photographs; direct address to user is inviting but not overdone or awkward