ELC 200 DAY 15
Chapter 9 Website Evaluation & Usability Testing
Awad –Electronic Commerce 1/e © 2002 Prentice Hall Day 14 Agenda Quiz #3 one April 5 –Chaps Lecture/Discuss Web Site Evaluation and Usability Testing Assignment # 5 on Next Slide –Only 3 more after this one
Awad –Electronic Commerce 1/e © 2002 Prentice Hall Assignment #5 –Page 289 Web Exercises Question # 1 & 2 only –For Question # 2 Do as an Individual Project and use only the First National Bank of South Miami, Question C means what Computer language –HTML, JavaScript, ASP ? –Turn in a well formatted typed response sheet Or –Due Tuesday, March 22 at start of class
Awad –Electronic Commerce 1/e © 2002 Prentice Hall Useability resources htmhttp://webdesign.about.com/cs/usability/tp/aatpwebusable. htm ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/572http://www- 306.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/ o4.htm
Awad –Electronic Commerce 1/e © 2002 Prentice Hall RELIABILITY TESTING Provide system backup Install a disk-mirroring feature Ensure that the system hardware is ‘fault- tolerant’ Website Evaluation & Traffic Management: What Makes a Website Usable?
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Awad –Electronic Commerce 1/e © 2002 Prentice Hall MANAGING IMAGES & COLOR Readability Testing GIFs vs. JPEGs Use of Cache Use of Links Role of the Web Server Website Evaluation & Traffic Management: What Makes a Website Usable?
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Awad –Electronic Commerce 1/e © 2002 Prentice Hall ROLE OF WEB ADMINISTRATOR Database Server Application Server Web Server Special-purpose Servers for Security Internet Bandwidth Internet Performance Status – Website Evaluation & Traffic Management: Role of Web Administrator
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Awad –Electronic Commerce 1/e © 2002 Prentice Hall Extra Credit question for next Quiz Extra Credit (5 points) What is the derivation of the name “cookie” used by Internet Browsers?