According to the syllabus, this assessment has a weight of 15/25 of
the final grade.
The objective assessed in all rubric criteria is Palmer Learning Objective 2.E.
validation of XHTML on site
no warning and errors
some errors
repeated errors from different sources of validation
a lot of errors
A web site has to be coded with validating code.
<title>
all different with good summary of content
all different with mostly good summary
some and the same and/or lousy summary of content
none
Title elements have important usability properties for web site.
links to the homepage
consistent linking to home page
all pages link to home page, but not consistently
some pages don't link to homepage or some pages link to themselves
problems with homepage links and self-links
Title elements have important usability properties for web site.
language
informative clear and concise
some writing is hard to understand
some happy talk and/or marketese
a lot of it
The language on the web site has to be appropriate to the medium.
fonts and appearance
limited font changes and clear appearance
some font family changes, unclear appearance
gratuitous changes
ransom note appearance
The appearance of the web site has to communicate the meaning effectively.
page layout
pages consistently laid out
pages consistently laid out, but some weird thing
pages are inconsistently laid out
pages are confusingly laid out
The layout of the pages is supposed to communicate the meaning of the
page. This criterion judges how will this is done. This is a
page rather than site level evaluation.
content chunking
contents is well distributed, in resaonably similar-size chunks
one page covers two topics
several pages cover several topic
poor page chunking
The information on a web site has to be placed into pages. This criteron assess how well this is done.
horizontal adaptability
special attention to adaptability
no special attention to adaptabilty
poor adaptability
table layout
Web sites need to be flexible to the users' devices to avoid excessive scrolling.
document talk
none
a little, where it appears tough to avoid
careless use
seemingly purposefully a lot
Document talk on the web site must be avoided.
aging material, potential for tense rot
none
in one place, or in the same place on many pages
in different pages, or places
in different pages, with tense change
A site must be written with a terms that allow it to stay static over time, if no update is assumed.