Evaluation of Xuezhen Kang’s website -

Continuous Cultivation and Related Bioreactors

In my overall estimation, the website is good! Here are my comments:

Positives:

· Assuming it is targeted to science focused high school students or freshman-year college students, the material is consistent with that level of knowledge.

· This site gives a good basis of understanding what continuous culture is, why it would be used, etc. It is very thorough!

· I liked the split window effect… it makes the website easy to navigate.

· The style is consistent throughout the whole site.

· The quiz window at the end was a really cool addition!

Negatives:

· It seems like most of your information was revised from a textbook posted on the web. Although you did include a couple of new pages, it was not very original. Perhaps you could add comments that show your evaluation of the material, and links to other sites with more in-depth information for further reference.

· Also, you should include a reference on every window which contains copied information.

· The grammar in the index page isn’t so good. Have someone proof-read the website for correct grammar.

· On the start page (index), you need to remove your links called: links, references, and outline. These look like what you used when you were working on the site, and don’t belong in the finished product.

Other Suggestions for Improvement:

· The way you have the website organized makes the viewer remember which sub-page they were on before they go to the next page. Many people like the web because they can sort-of “veg.-out” when they browse. (This means that people don’t like having to think a whole lot when they “surf” the web.) It would be better to also have a link called “NEXT” that links to the following page in the progression.

· Font appears really large. You could reduce the font size significantly and it would still be readable, but easier to see more of the document.

· I personally didn’t care for the pink background on the left window. A different color scheme might look more professional… but that is just a personal taste of mine.

· With the way your website flows, it might be nice to have a summary window at the very end.