Tuesday May 15, 2007

1)   Project Self Assessment.

           Students began to present their self assessments.

Lulu

Topics in MIS Project

Hanlu Xu

 

In this project, I will analyze Yale University WebPages throughout the following criteria.

 

1)  Identity (What, Where, When, Which, Who, Why, How. )             

           2)  Appearance

3)      HTML

4)  Search Engine

                        S1)  Most common entries like Smith.

                        S2)  Search for a known entry to see the result.

                        S3)  Search for Blank

                        S4)  Search for Special Characters-  +, &, ?

                        S5)  Search for Case Sensitivity

                        S6)  Search for itself.

                        S7)  Search for Partial information or equivalencies.

            5)  Javascript

6)  Server Database Criteria-

D1)  What language are they using?

                        D2)  What database are they using?

                        D3)  What is the operating system?

                                    i.e.  Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows

                        D4)  What web system are they using?

                                        IIS, Apache,  TomCat

                        D5) What CGI Technology are they using?

                                        PHP, ASP,SSP

                        D6)  Is the domain friendly and appropriate?

                    D7)  How is the Database integrated with HTML.

7)      Security, Privacy and Ethics.

                        1)  If you understand and can explain an encryption program.

                        2)  Give examples of some evidence of security

                        3)  Give evidence of privacy.

                        4)  Give evidence that the operation of the site is ethical.

                        5)  Is the security breakable.- Did you try to break through their security.

                        6) Other problems

                        7)  Is there validation in their data fields?  What is validation?

 

           i.              Identity

²        What: Yale has a full page about its history, it answers what is Yale, what is Yale’s educational purpose.

http://yale.edu/about/history.html, and also a link to an illustrated timeline of its history, which demonstrates it’s over 300 year’s history according to a time axis. However, I cannot find any page introduces Yale’s mission, goals, or values, which supposed to be an important part of a university’s website.

²        Where: it’s a crucial problem that there is no exactly illustration about where Yale University locates in Yale’s home web pages. Even go to“contact us”, we see:

Yale addresses and phone numbers

If you need to contact someone at the University, check the online directory for telephone, address, and e-mail information.

       Why:

Why did Yale set up? It is described in Yale’s history, which demonstrated above.

Why we apply for Yale? The web describes the advantages of Yale everywhere; persuading students try their best to apply for it. However, as the worldwide top school, Yale never worried about its student resources

Why we visit Yale? It is about Yale’s environment, Yale’s culture, Yale’s history, Yale’s reputation, and so on. All these are described in “about Yale”