You can use checklists to evaluate websites in different ways, two of which are:
- to check that a website is good enough in different areas (comprehensive evaluation)
- to check that a website does not make any of the common mistakes (spotting problems)
Both are useful.
Comprehensive evaluation
This approach does cover the entire area, but requires some work to organise. Coming up with a comprehensive checklist can be difficult.
Later, I will try to present an example checklist based on what we've talked about in this class.
Spotting problems
This second approach is easier: there are many "top 20 Web design mistakes" lists available, any of which can be used as a checklist to make sure your own site doesn't fall into those traps.
In cost-benefit terms, this can be more productive because it is very easy to do and it should help you find any obvious or serious blunders. So if you are short of time, this approach may be the best one.
Later, I'll give an example of this too.
