Site Appreciation

Owner / Author

• Company
• Organization
• Person

Purpose

• Public relations
• Internal communication
• Resource
• Sales
• Interaction

Style

• Madison Avenue
• Lean and mean
• Raw data

Media used

• Text
• Image (GIF, JPEG, and others)
• Audio (canned or real time)
• Video (with or without sound)
• Form or document
• File (text or binary)

Cost

• High; professionally designed and maintained
• Moderate; maintained by office staff as part of normal job
• Zero marginal cost; personal project

Architecture

• Single page
• Hierarchical
• More complex
• Many outside links

Effectiveness (well suited for its intended purpose)

• Matches the medium
• Fast to load
• Visually interesting
• Well written
• Well organized

Match to the medium

• External links
• Interaction
• Multi-media
• Can the intended purpose be achieved better in another form?