Website Sustainability

A central feature of the site is the 'Tube map',  a graphical representation of the services on offer.  So a survey of these features on the site  http://www.web-sustainablity.net/   was carried out. Overall the respondents were satisfied or held no strong views with they way it looks. People seemed reasonably happy with the ability to find what they wanted on the site. Most people either thought the layout was right for them or didn't have strong views either way. From those that disagreed there were not further comments to help find out what the problem was. Most people thought they would use the site. The person that stated they strongly disagreed went on to say " Site contains lots of useful info that I was not aware was available " and on all other aspects of the survey had been positive about the site. These are results are indicative only as the sample size is small (10 respondents) When asked improving the navigation of the tube map ...

A  survey  of these features on the site  http://www.web-sustainablity.net/  was carried out. To get a sense of the areas of interest of the respondents they were asked to select the occupations that best reflects them. Managers, students and Other coming out the strongest. All agree that the layout was right for them. All agree that the navigation was easyfor them. All agree, for them, it was easy to find what they were looking for. When asked   Please add any comments or suggestions you feel appropriate on the navigation.    1. Find the site easy to navigate, easy to find the information that I am looking for, would be happy to see further devleopment of site    2. Material was easier to find and navigation flowed well. Layout clear and not cluttered with too much info. When you have selected the services menu it displays a further menu of the options available under services. It may be useful to also to display the further...

Social networks (Facebook and Twitter) have been trialed as a method of getting the survey out to a wider audience. First route: all the Blogs have been sent out on Facebook and twitter . The 140 character including the URL means it has to short and to the point. LinkedIn has also been tried as another social networking route. Sent out as a post with the a request for help and a link to the survey. This route was included because of the nature of the LinkedIn it can be targeted to those those who are in organisations the site is aimed at. How effective these are we must wait to see. This work has been supported by funding from JISC. The site can be viewed at https://sites.google.com/site/emknorg/ or http://www.web-sustainablity.net/emkn/ Survey about this material can be found at: http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=67775a0a-336f-45a5-a222-2f1a6615752c please feel free to fill it in or http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=cec22f0a-e467-4c15-a319-74d96bb...

To get more feedback an on-line survey has been produced using eSurveysPro ( http://www.esurveyspro.com ). eSurverysPro is a free on-line package that lets you produce surveys and email them out or provide a link. A selection of emails addresses, taken from the EMKN site, were used to invited people to take part, as these are people who may be interested in the site. The reasons  eSurveysPro ( http://www.esurveyspro.com ) was selected was: It offers a free on-line service; Invites of up to 50 people in a month can be sent from a free account; Anonymity - IP or email address of respondents won't be collected; There is an option for people to withdraw themselves from the list. If you would like to take part in the survey, it can be found at:  http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=67775a0a-336f-45a5-a222-2f1a6615752c