What is effective web page design?

Of course, its impossible to answer that question definitively. Still, a good place to start is to consider the purpose of your pages. We assume you are designing educational web pages, so here are some links that contain rubrics used by teachers to assess web design quality. Good rubrics will help you develop your own principles and measures of the effective of web pages design.

• Web Page Evaluation Criteria This scale is adapted from original work done by Al Rogers for the Global SchoolNet Foundation and CyberFair Contest. The adaptation is by Clarence Bakken and Sara Armstrong in conjunction with Challenge 2000, for the CTAP Region IV Technology Leadership Academy and the Institute for Research on Learning.

• The Blue Web'N Evaluation Rubric This is the web page evaluation criteria for the popular Blue Web'N educational site. The site is the brainchild of Tom March, classroom teacher, online educator, student of Bernie Dodge, and co-founder of the Education First/Knowledge Network Explorer.