Web Olympics Project:
Good and Bad Institutional Pages

Click on the above graphic to see an excellent example of an institutional web page at http://sunsite.unc.edu/subgenius. The picture of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has been reproduced from The Church of the Subgenius site only for academic discussion, evaluation, and research and complies with the copyright law of the United States as defined and stipulated under Title 17 U. S. Code.

Group: back row, the (sans beryl)

intellicast communications
Score: 10

What we liked:

• local radars for every national weather station/airport
• forecasts and stuff
• easy to use aforementioned stuff
• faster than hell

US Fish & Wildlife Service
Score:8

What we liked:

• pleasing number of graphics
• espagnol possibilities
• links for every endangered species
• catchy stars

the Sierra Club
Score: 8

What we liked:

• many links to environmental issues-related sites
• neat-o java applet
• online opportunity to join organization
• online club magazine

Nanotec's page of cryptic correspondence
Score:1

What we disliked:

• useless
• skimpy
• frontin' (drops infotext's name)
• text fails to live up to logo

the dutch exploits of john jansen, dds
Score: 2

What we disliked:

• inexplicable
• egotistical

Hurricane chapter of the Miami Museum of Science
Score: 3

What we disliked:

• slow to load
• should load faster
• wack graphics
• maybe could load with more speed

Group: T he O nly B luffton B rowsers

CU-Boulder
Score: 9

What we liked:

• Lots of links
• Nice pictures
• Colorful graphics
• Interesting information

Berkeley University of California
Score:8.5

What we liked:

• Homepage has updated headlines section
• Links to latest news
• Homepage has search option
• Attractive graphics

Brown University
Score: 8

What we liked:

• Lots of pictures
• On-line tour
• Direct links to students' email accounts
• Links to current university news stories

Bluffton College
Score:2

What we disliked:

• Links are all text
• One picture -- of the sign
• Text looks weird
• No pictures of the campus, but they talk about it a lot

Mars Hill College
Score: 3

What we disliked:

• No pictures on first page
• Unattractive

Johnson C. Smith University
Score: 4

What we disliked:

• Limited Information
• Few links
• No real graphics
• Attractive homepage, but little else

Group: Deb's Computer Ding Dongs

Bowman Grey School of Medicine and North Carolina Baptist Hospital
Score: 9

What we liked:

• The calorie counter is great! Just click on foods from the list and the program calculates the fat grams and calories automatically.
• Had information about current research!

Columbia Health Care
Score:9

What we liked:

• You can view the Columbia Health Care TV commercials!!!
• Has a fun page for kids that gives health care information!
• Has a virtual tour of the hospital!!!!
• Has information about healthy recipes and political triva!

Carolinas Health Care System
Score:9

What we liked:

• it had two major links: Visitors and Children
• For Children there are games to play and activities and "Meet the Stars"
• For visitors there are job opportunities and press releases
• ****Put details here***

Tampa General Healthcare
Score: 2

What we disliked:

• No links.
• No graphics. Only one photo.
• No useful info.
• Not colorful--shades of gray and black.

Duke University Medical Center
Score: 4

What we disliked:

• All text, no graphics.
• Only blue and gray.
• Too much to read.
• Too many links.

Western Wake Medical Center
Score: 1

What we disliked:

• only one photo of hospital
• and 2 sentences describing hospital.
• no links.
• no graphics.

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