Transcript Best Practices For Project Web Sites

Web Site Creation:
Good Practice Guidelines
Self Assessment Of Project Web Sites
Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
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Why?
Self assessment of your Web site can be used
to:
• Monitor compliance of your Web site with
standards
• Report on usage of your Web site
• Monitor problems with your Web site
Benchmarking of NOF-digi project Web sites
can be used to:
• Identify areas of best practices
• Identify areas in which improvements are
needed
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How?
Many Web-based analysis services are
available:
• HTML, XML and CSS validators to check on
compliance with standards
• Link checkers
• Usage analysis
• Linkage analysis
• Performance monitoring
Some services are available for free (e.g. funded by
advertising and free service provides limited
functionality) and others are licensed
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Systematic Monitoring
You may find it useful to:
• Monitor the status of your Web site
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Nos. of pages indexed.
Nos. of links to your Web site
Accessibility of your Web site
Compliance with standards
Downtime of the service
• Monitor trends
 Do the findings change over time / after dissemination
• Compare your findings with your peers
 Comparison with other projects
 Comparison with other institutions
 Comparison with other communities
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Monitoring
Many evaluation tools and
Web services are available
(some for free)
See <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/
jusw-2001/auditing-workshop/> for exercises from Auditing and
Monitoring Your Web Sites workshop
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Conclusions
To conclude:
• You should ensure that you have
procedures for monitoring various aspects
of your Web service
• A wide range of tools area available,
including some which are free
• Note that tools may give flawed results e.g. see paper on Automated Benchmarking
Of Local Authority Web Sites at
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/
events/conferences/euroweb-2001/>
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