Depending on your browser and local configuration, the initial connection might be troublesome. Note that connection will be on HTTPS with a privately-issued certificate. topazini #edit as appropriateĪt this point you should be able to launch a web browser and start interacting with the tools. AIDE (semi-Automated Interface Designer and Evaluator), helps designers assess and compare different design options using quantitative task-sensitive and task-independent metrics, including efficiency, vertical and horizontal balance, and designer-specified constraints.Export GEMSTONE="/opt/gemstone/product" # edit as appropriateĬp topazini. Some tools like the Design Advisor uses heuristics about the attentional effects of various elements, such as motion and size. The tool Bobby assess sites on the consistancy of ALT tags used with graphic images. These tools assess static HTML documents based on some predetermined guidlines. It follows an idealized user model that follows an explicit, prespecified navigation path through the site and estimates several metrics, such as page load and optimal navigation times. Some of these tools simulates a user's information-seeking behavior within an implemented site model. These tools use statistical analysis to measure usage patterns and it does traffic-based analysis (ex. Within the WebTango architecture there are three types of tools that were used. This table below expresses the outline used to establish what the quality of a web site is. The analysis tool used this information to evaluate a submitted web site design. The crawler tool selects pages to be measured by the metrics computation tool.
Page and site-level features use these elements to improve the user's experience.įigure 2 illustration deplicts the web tango achitecture in terms of usability of a website. Text, link, and graphic elements are the building blocks of a web interface. The table below explains the elements that are essential in determining whether or not a site that is developed is users friendly and design well.įigure 1 illustrates hierarchy elements in web site structure. Experience Design - encompasses all three of these categories, as well as properties that affect the overall user experience.Graphic Design - focuses on visual presentation.Navigation Design - focuses on developing mechanisms to facilitate interaction with the information structure.Information Design - focuses on identifying and group content items and developing category labels to reflect the site's information structure.The WebTango tool analyses and measures the site on four types of criteria: Since web sites contain a mix of text, links, graphic elements and formatting for images, there are a broad set of affects that determine overall site quality.
Where as there are numerous tools for web authoring, there aren't so many efficient ones for web site measurements.īut one such suite of tools that has a wide array of functionality is called WebTango. Web tools that are worth the investment are Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX and Adobe's GoLive 6. Therefore, many web authors rely on top-notch tools to assist them in their tasks of developing web sites ( O'Reilly, 2002). In web development, web tools are very important because as the jobs get bigger, so does the complexity. As the saying goes, there is a peg for every hole, well, there is a web tool for every application.