Characterization and assessment of HTML style guides

Ratner, Julie; Grose, Eric; Forsythe, Chris

doi:10.1145/257089.257193

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“…As previously discussed, conforming to the guidelines embedded in HTML analysis tools can potentially eliminate usability problems that arise due to poor HTML syntax (e.g., missing page elements) or guideline violations. However, Ratner et al [1996] question the validity of HTML usability guidelines, since most have not been subjected to a rigorous development process as established guidelines for WIMP interfaces and have little consistency among them. Brajnik [2000] surveyed 11 automated Web site analysis methods, including Bobby and Lift Online.…”

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“…As previously discussed, research on Web site credibility [Fogg 1999;Fogg et al 2000] possibly suggests that some of the aspects assessed by these tools, such as broken links and other errors, may also affect usability due to the relationship between usability and credibility. However, Ratner et al [1996] question the validity of HTML usability guidelines, since most HTML guidelines have not been subjected to a rigorous development process as established guidelines for WIMP interfaces. Analysis of 21 HTML guidelines showed little consistency among them, with 75% of recommendations appearing in only one style guide.…”

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“…argued that, ideally, web designers should also be experts in human-computer interaction (HCI). Yet, web designers with proper knowledge or training in HCI are rare Ratner, Grose, and Forsythe, 1996;Mayhew, 1998;Farenc and Palanque, 1999). In addition, web design is different from traditional software design, e.g., the user population is increasingly diverse and designers are unable to assert fill control over the web user interface.…”

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Building a Web-Features Taxonomy for Structuring Web Design Guidelines

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2003

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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This paper proposes a framework for structuring web design guidelines that incorporates the hierarchies of web features and their semantic relationships with HTML and CSS. It is argued that this approach will be synchronous with the mental model of web designers, thus making the guidelines more usable. In addition, this approach embraces both external and internal aspects of web design, so there is little compromise on the coverage of web design issues. An experiment was conducted to compare the relative effectiveness of the proposed framework with other guideline structures (e.g., principle-oriented and a mixture of principle and feature-oriented). There was evidence that the principle-oriented guidelines performed worse than the other structures, but the analyses failed to establish that the proposed framework as the most effective. The experiment showed promising results but it suffered from small sample size. In spite of this, it is believed that the proposed taxonomy and framework has laid the groundwork for fiture research.

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“…Furthermore, guidelines can conflict with one another with little advice about what to do in these cases [12]. And finally, guidelines that require careful study and practice may not be familiar to the occasional web designer.…”

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Statistical profiles of highly-rated web sites

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Hearst²

2002

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Changing Our World, Changing Ourselves - CHI '02

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We are creating an interactive tool to help non-professional web site builders create high quality designs. We have previously reported that quantitative measures of web page structure can predict whether a site will be highly or poorly rated by experts, with accuracies ranging from 67-80%. In this paper we extend that work in several ways. First, we compute a much larger set of measures (157 versus 11), over a much larger collection of pages (5300 vs. 1900), achieving much higher overall accuracy (94% on average) when contrasting good, average, and poor pages. Second, we introduce new classes of measures that can make assessments at the site level and according to page type (home page, content page, etc.). Finally, we create statistical profiles of good sites, and apply them to an existing design, showing how that design can be changed to better match high-quality designs.

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Characterization and assessment of HTML style guides

Cited by 20 publications

References 4 publications

The state of the art in automating usability evaluation of user interfaces

The state of the art in automating usability evaluation of user interfaces

Building a Web-Features Taxonomy for Structuring Web Design Guidelines

Statistical profiles of highly-rated web sites

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