Site Evaluation
Website: http://www.nvidia.com
Date: 3/22/08
Design:
- The design is laid out in a way that focuses the eyes on the main portion of the screen that shows new products or news.
- There are tabs below the main headline block that lead to other popular places on the website.
- At the top of the screen are links to all the information someone would need to find at their site: Shopping, downloads, home, news/events, support.
- At the top of the page are the main logo and a search bar.
- The site overall is very clean and not cluttered.
Usability:
- The site is very organized and easy on the eyes.
- The colors are dark and there is very good contrast on most of the page.
- A main menu bar at the top shows most of the main sections of the website, but each menu item has a whole dropdown list that would contain almost everything the site contains. This would allow anyone to find anything from the main website.
CSS:
- The CSS contains comments that I have never used before, they section off each area for “header” “footer”, or whatever else the page contains. The comments have a beginning and an end.
- CSS formats EVERYTHING! The actual webpage code is very simple and contains mostly list items. Therefore the CSS positions and moves it to where it needs to be.
Code Validity:
- The code isn’t validated. The homepage alone comes up with 133 errors. These come from tags that aren’t ended, javascript that mixes with the html wrong and there is no doctype mentioned.
- Since there is no doctype, the page is in quirks mode and it parses just fine, as everything on the page works perfect in firefox. But this isn’t the best way to create a webpage, they should have it strict. This will cause problems as browsers head to implementing all the correct webpage guidelines.
Accessibility:
- The site implements no accessibility.
- The contrast for most of the column headers is horrible. They should add a better contrast. It would be a simple CSS change.
- I did try my screen reader on the website and it read it pretty well.