(1217.pdf) EVALUATION OF THE HOMEPAGE OF IRANIAN ACADEMIC WEBSITES

摘要

Today, websites are considered to be important tools in research and education. The importance ofsuccessful design and development of an academic website with a more effective and a high degreeof quality is increasing every day. Unfortunately, although the importance of an effective and highqualityacademic website has been proven, user satisfaction and quality values have not been muchconsidered by numerous academic websites. This will cause a huge negative effect on the popularityof the universities owning those websites. In addition, the quality of website home pages website isdirectly related to their usability and accessibility. In this paper, a number of evaluating criteria havebeen defined for websites of Iran's top 14 universities (based on their educational and websiterankings). Based on the mentioned criteria, home pages of these universities have been evaluated.The results of this work may be used by web developers, and for academic website designers,developers and administrators.