Campus Penguin Grading Rubic

Design – 4 points
The design has come out very good with what we are where going for. It is pleasing to the eye, its simple but yet complex and give a professional look.

Images – 3.5 points

We have some imagery on the site and what we have I think is good enough as users will be uploading their own photographs to showcase to others.

Layout – 3 points

I graded this on the lower end as the layout is good but depending on the content is what will make the final look on the inside pages.

Text – 4 points

The text we chose goes well with the site. It is modern and stylist and should be pleasing to our target audience.

Navigation – 4 points

Navigation is easy to find and always in the same location.

Mechanics – 4 points

Everything works great! PHP and MySql is what runs most of the site making it functional and running smooth.

HTML/XTML/CSS – 4 points

All the CSS and HTML is where it needs to be. There are not errors or breaks through the page and other pages inside the site.

Credibility – 4 points

The site looks very good. Unlike craigslist we find this site more credible and having an administrator regulate who is and is not approved will make the site a lot more secure.

Campus Penguin part 5

We have Campus Penguin almost complete and in it's Beta stage. I had my wife, Donique, test the site since she is a craigslist user and a student. Since out target audience are students, I thought this would be the best person to test this site. As I watched her use it, she seemed to be able to navigate and find where she needed to go. She did have a problem trying to figure out how to post at first but shortly after she figured it out. When she was finally done using the site, she said "Once the site is complete, I think it will be way better than craigslist. Just the look alone makes me want to use it. The only thing was that I did not have any instructions as a first time user on how to post. I also noticed that some of the posts where positioned funny and when I did a search the results had no links to them unless I pressed on the comments link."

Overall I found this testing very helpful. I think we will go ahead and add a help link for first time users and possibly send instruction for first time registered persons on how to use the site!