RMIT Web Review - Assessment (1998-09-10)
Information Management: http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au:81/Dimals/
This screen has been assessed according to a working set of criteria available [on-line} at:
http://www.cinemedia.net/FOD/DuckDigital/criteria.html
Heuristic overview
This screen was last updated on 21st September 1997. As it is essentially a text based list of heavy table bordered links, it has the look and feel of a site produced around 1995.
In spite of this, the site provides a great deal of information: profiles and phone numbers of staff with pictures are excellent and easy to find.
Some suggestions:
Move Course information into the CIWH
Create a site map
update and restructure information to take account of screen integrity
Remove Java script as does not appear to serve any useful purpose
integrate site elements and remove blinding colours e.g information resource guide
Download Time
The down load time for this screen was within the recommended range.
URL Size Time (seconds) http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au:81/Dimals/ 19.29 K 5.36 invisible.gif 0.89 K 0.25 rmitlogo2.gif 5.55 K 1.54 rainbow.gif 0.48 K 0.13 Total 26.21 K 7.28 HTTP Request Delays 2.00 Total + Delays 9.28 Accessibility Suggestions:
- Provide alternative text for all images
Line 1023: <CENTER><P><A HREF="http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au:8888/cgi/bazmc/mc.cgi"><IMG SRC="invisible.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=50 ALIGN=RIGHT></A><BR>
Line 1024: <IMG SRC="rmitlogo2.gif" HEIGHT=54 WIDTH=150> </P></CENTER>
Line 1061: <IMG SRC="rainbow.gif" HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=585></H3>
Line 1068: <CENTER><P><IMG SRC="rainbow.gif" HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=585> <BR>
Line 1421: <P><A HREF="http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au:8888/cgi/bazmc/manage.cgi"><IMG SRC="invisible.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=50 ALIGN=LEFT></A><BR>
- If possible, avoid using tables to format text documents in columns
- Use the LANG attribute to identify the language of the text
Browser Compatibility Suggestions:
- Required attribute ALT is missing from tag IMG for browser(s): HTML 4.0
Line 1023: <CENTER><P><A HREF="http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au:8888/cgi/bazmc/mc.cgi"><IMG SRC="invisible.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=50 ALIGN=RIGHT></A><BR>
Line 1024: <IMG SRC="rmitlogo2.gif" HEIGHT=54 WIDTH=150> </P></CENTER>
Line 1061: <IMG SRC="rainbow.gif" HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=585></H3>
Line 1068: <CENTER><P><IMG SRC="rainbow.gif" HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=585> <BR>
Line 1421: <P><A HREF="http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au:8888/cgi/bazmc/manage.cgi"><IMG SRC="invisible.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=50 ALIGN=LEFT></A><BR>
- Unknown element name FF3300 for browser(s): HTML 4.0
Line 1021: <P><FF3300><A NAME="top"></A></P>
Metadata:
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Department of Information Management - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: We teach, research and consult in the areas of Librarianship, Archives and Records Management, Electronic Document Management, Information Resources Management and Internet Studies. Under-Graduate, Post-Graduate and Research Degrees and Single Subject enrollments taken year round."> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="information management, librarianship, archives and records management, electronic document management, information resources management, internet, cataloguing, library and information science"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="Henric Beiers"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.0Gold (Win95; I) [Netscape]"> This metadata does not conform to the syntax of the Dublin Core emerging standard.
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