Assignment 3: Web Evaluation



This website is an association website for Journalism students, making it a great resource for Yearbook students. It is extremely current. It has event deadlines and "Current News" on the home page, and the deadlines are not only current, but projected a good ways into the future as well. It is clearly a very well organized and planned website with a lot of input. Beyond that, I couldn't click each and every link because there were so many, but I followed many and failed to find one that didn't. The website is very relevant. It's obvious that this website is professionally created. It flows smoothly, makes logical and organizational sense, is clean and neat, and you can research this association to find its accreditation. There are no noticeable typos, and it's all on topic. For Authority, there is no identifiable author of this website. However, the website is a .org page, so we know that it is official, and as previously mentioned, simple research proves this is an accredited organization that functions on a national level. The website is very factual and accurate, doesn't present things as opinions, and reads as completely unbiased and free from outside influenced. Everything proves research and connection to other well-standing websites and sources. 
 
This website has resources and creative ideas for the creation of yearbooks. It proves to be slightly less current than the first website, with the only proof of recent additions being the "tip of the day" scroll on the home page. However, it is mainly creative info and how-to guides, so it isn't information that necessarily is outdated without constant refreshing. The links are all still in good functioning order, and there are tons of them. The website is well-made, easy to use, and complex and professional. I found no typos or broken links. For students with an understanding of yearbook jargon, it's easily readable. This website is created in affiliation with Jostens, which is an official and national Yearbook publishing company, so we know that it is a trustworthy authority. Although this website is more creative than factual, information does line-up with outside resources (ie the affiliation of these "yearbook guys" to Jostens) and they provide links to other quality sources. Besides being sponsored by a yearbook publisher, the website doesn't seem to have any hidden purpose other than to help schools successfully publish their yearbooks. The language is not exaggerated, and the website seems largely unbiased. 

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