ITEC 3010 Walden University Week 3 Web Page Evaluation Paper

Assignment: Web Page Evaluation

Website design is different for a full-screen browser than for smaller devices. The Mobile Web Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends best practices for mobile-friendly content. In this Assignment, you will evaluate the content of a web page and report how well it may display on handheld devices.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Identify a web page that you visit regularly and copy its URL.
• Use a mobile web page evaluator (e.g. mobiReady) and generate a report for your selected URL.

Review the report and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the web page for mobile use. These may include the following:

• Bandwidth requirements for page and graphics
• Standard and valid markup
• Poorly supported elements such as scripting, plug-ins, frames
• External resources
• Page layout, content, structure, and navigation
• User inputs

Then, write a 2- to 3-page memo to the owner of the web page in which you include the following:

• Identify the web page you chose and summarize your findings from the evaluation report.
• Recommend actions to improve the page for mobile devices. Identify the best practices and/or design standards that were met or not met for mobile interface design and development based upon W3C standards.
• Your memo should be well organized and contain grammatically correct, complete sentences that are free of spelling errors. Your memo should conform to APA style.

Required Readings

Bandi, A., & Fellah, A. (2017). Design issues for converting websites to mobile sites and apps: A case study. 2017 International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC), 652–656. doi:10.1109/ICCMC.2017.8282547

Hubbard, M., & Van Belle, J.-P. (2013). Factors driving an organization’s capability to develop mobile compatible websites. 2013 International Conference on Cloud & Ubiquitous Computing & Emerging Technologies, 121–126.

Markoff, J. (2008). On a small screen, just the salient stuff. The New York Times, 157(54370), 3.