Evaluating Your Site

A series of questions for designers to help determine if their site has been designed to their needs.

As you develop your Web site, you should constantly be evaluating it. As you do so, ask yourself the following questions:

* Is the purpose of my site clear?

* Do all the pages of my site focus on that one purpose?

* Am I effectively targeting my audience?

* Is the content interesting and relevant?

* Is my site professional looking? Would a visitor know my skill level by the look of the Web site?

* Is the content well written and easy to read? Is the content written appropriately for my target visitor?

* Do I always know where I am throughout every page of the Web site? Or do I find myself lost or in a dead end?

* On a dialup connection, do the pages load fast enough?

* Is my site accessible to visitors with disabilities? (Test how your Web site looks when you use extra-large fonts in the browser. Also, print your Web site in black and white on your printer, and see if it's readable by color-blind people.)

	Evaluating Your Site This article is excerpted from Yahoo! SiteBuilder For Dummies by Richard Wagner (For Dummies - A Branded Imprint of Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2005). Used by arrangement with Wiley Publishing, Inc. Buy the book

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