Critical Evaluation of Web Computers Website Design and Development

This report presents a critical evaluation of a website's design and development, focusing on key aspects such as accessibility features, CSS effectiveness, and the advantages and disadvantages of different design and hosting approaches. The report begins by addressing accessibility, detailing how the developed site ensures compatibility with assistive technologies by validating HTML code and providing alt-text for images. It then examines the effectiveness of CSS, suggesting improvements to reduce stylesheet sizes for enhanced performance. The report further explores user-centered design, outlining its benefits in building positive user experiences and its drawbacks, such as potential complexities and time-consuming development. Finally, it evaluates dedicated web hosting, comparing its advantages, such as increased control and resources, against disadvantages like higher costs and the need for technical expertise. The evaluation provides a comprehensive overview of the website's strengths and weaknesses, offering insights for improvements.

Running head: CRITICAL EVALUATION
Critical Evaluation
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1: CRITICAL EVALUATION
Accessibility feature of the Developed site
As the incorrect HTML used on the pages may lead to problems for assistive
technology in interpreting the web page content. In this way this can potentially lead to the
access problems for the intended end users. Therefore, the developed page is validated using
the http://validator.w3.org in order to check and make the HTML code standard one so that
the browsers and assistive technologies does not have any issue to display the content. For the
image there are alt text provided. This alt-text acts as replacement of the image used
anywhere on the page and is whenever the image fails to load on the page.
The website is tested with a keyboard use. For the developed page, navigation of the
page is tested using the tab key in order to navigate through the seven pages of the web site. It
is found that the users will be able to access the interactive features on the pages such as
navigation menus, buttons, links, form fields and other relevant controls. The users can also
and operate as well as use the controls by pressing Enter key, space bar or other available
keystrokes. Therefore, here it can be said that as most of the controls are accessible through
the keyboard on the developed site the users can use those features easily and have a good
accessibility level with minimal problem.
Effectiveness of the CSS and what improvements
Reduce the size of your stylesheets
In order to enhance the performance of the website it is desired to reduce the size of
the style sheets with the fewer selectors for the web pages they in which they will be used.
The lesser the size of css file the lesser the browsers need to have round trips to the server to
rendering webpage.

2: CRITICAL EVALUATION
Advantages and Disadvantages of user centred design
Advantages
Through this design approach the organizations can build positive user experiences
and can help in developing good business or brand reputation.
In addition to that, it is also possible to gain insight which could lead to better customer
reach.
By testing the functionalities and controls with end-users the design process can be
cost effective as well as efficient.
Disadvantages
In some scenario it is very difficult to convert certain types of data into design for an
application.
Development and design of the application takes more time
The desired application can be too complicated as well as more expensive due to the
multiple iterations.
Advantages and disadvantages of dedicated web hosting.
Dedicated Hosting of the web sites is much more expensive when compared to share
hosting. The reason behind this can be stated as the clients need to bear the complete cost of
the software installations, hardware upgrades for the software. In addition to that the clients
may require to hire technical staff in order to handle the server.
In case of the dedicated hosting, it cannot be used for the small-sized businesses such
sites where the business does not expect too much heavy traffic volume.

3: CRITICAL EVALUATION
The organizations or the clients need to know basic technical knowledge for server
administration as well management so that the server work efficiently and the hosted site can
be reachable by the users.