Hi all,

In this post I will discuss about the Bank’s website that I evaluated using a checklist that I created for one of my courses last year.

General Description of the website:
The website is a business site which is about banking (http://www.nbq.ae). It provides services for the customers and it also offers jobs for different nationalities with a focus on the local employees. It is a useful site for people who want to open accounts, to take loans and to apply for a job.

Website evaluation:
The company that created the website has considered many principles of creating websites while designing it. For example, the background that is used is light gray and comfortable for the eyes. The font size that is used for the texts is around 12-14 which matches with what Williams’s states (2000) about the best font size that most of the readers normally can find easy to read. Furthermore, the pictures that are displayed in the homepage are well organized and there is one animated image that is related to the banking.

Moreover, the icons that are used in the website can be identified easily by people globally because the icons are words Go, Login, Register. As far for the authority, the bank is a well known organization in the UAE and people can use this website for banking purposes regarding to opening new accounts, using their existed accounts or taking loans. Another good point is the purpose of the site is clarified in the About Us section (History page). Another advantage is the data of the site is updated. However, I am not sure if the registration procedure is linked to open an account or login as a user in the site because it is a Bank!

Furthermore, one drawback that I found while evacuating the site is the links are crammed and there is lack of spacing between them which can be a problem for some viewers to use it easily.

Overall, I think this site is a good business website. However, the purposes of using it will differ from a normal site because it is related to banking and offering services and jobs for people.

This is the checklist : website-evaluation-checklist.doc

Reference:
Williams,T,R. (2000). Guidelines for Designing and Evaluating the Display of Informaiton on the Web. Third Quarter 2000. Technical Communication. 383-396