On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, K Fearon wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Rick Hobson wrote:
>
> > Providing a web site meets the above criteria (there may be others) and is
> > identifiable as belonging to an institution (a simple crest perhaps) does
> > the precise appearance really matter?
>
> This is all we ask for - for depts to use a banner on their welcome page,
> and intro pages for grad and undergrad prospective students. They are free
> to design the rest of the page how they like. But people are still
> unhappy with it.
>
> How would you view the quality of a journal where every article is set in
> a different typeface, with different margins, headings, and perhaps
> without the author's name even visible?
Not sure I would liken a university web site to a journal. The "top
level" pages perhaps, but departmental pages no. Of course, the publisher
of a page should appear on it somewhere. I would add this to my original
list of criteria.
> Depts in the same institution aren't in competition with each other for
> users and the need to 'all look different' comes more IMO from internal
> people comparing their pages with other depts.
>
> Kriss
More likely they are maintained by "unpaid volunteers" who in order to
gain some satisfaction from the task prefer to do some of their own
design. If institutions want to brand all pages then they should provide
the manpower so to do. Regarding comparisons, it is more likely that
individuals are comparing their pages with those in similar departments in
other institutions.
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