Web Site Typologies (as culled from the MOO session)
Below find the "types" of websites as developed in the MOO followed
by both the general and genre-specific criteria for evaluating sites.
Types
- commercial sites
- educational
- government
- personal home pages
- literary publications
- porn/gambling
- search engines
- company sites (public relations)
- company intranets
- virtual community sites (chat rooms)
- meta sites (point to other sites)
- job search sites (commercial)
- multimedia (music, movies)
- news publications (NY Times)
- email sites
- distance learning sites
- Business
- information-educational
- entertainment
- non-profit charity
- personal
- commercial
- editorial
- informative
- academic
- social
- fact
- fiction
Criteria
GENERAL
- ease of use (navigation)
- organization
- reception by targeted audience
- visual appeal
- speed of loading
- number of hits
- amount of time spent at site
- current content
- links to other sites relevant in the sites' field
- Viewership
- number of hits
- author authority
- amount of Visa$
- organized
- comprehensible
- accessible
SPECIFIC
- authors authority,
- effectiveness in meeting sites purpose (e.g., porn site)
- amount of sales and profits (for commercial sites)"
- if there is video or audio, it is good?
- is the infomation credible?
- if it is supposed to to entertaining, is it?
- is the data query interface easy to use?
- is there lots of data?"
- commercial- secure, visual,effective
- academic, informative- well documented
- social - monitored
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