Evaluating a web page

1. Author/Publisher

• Check the author's name
  • Is it stated clearly? 
  • Is the author credential?
  • Is he/she credible to write the content?
• Check the organization that publishes the page
  • Is it well known?
  • Does it have clear contact address?
• Remember, personal website may need more checks on the credential of the author
• The about us usually tells us about the author, the publisher, and the vision-mission of the website

2. Domains

• Every website has the definition of the domain check on it first
• examples:
  • Education domain (edu or ac)
  • Government domain (gov or go)
  • Organization domain (org) 
• Once again you have to check more on the about us

3. Currency & Accuracy

• Is it up dated regularly?
• A good website is updated regularly, and growing in contain 
• ATTENTION
  • Does the contain tend to persuade, to sell, or promote something?
  • Is it bias to a certain brand of commercial, or to express personal feeling with backup data?
  • Those kind of information may not besuitable for academic information resources

4. Links

• Is the link from another reputable source or well known in the subject area? 
• Are the resources used reliable like from scholarly journals?
• Compare the contain and see whether they have contradictions or similarity

5. Credits

• For an internet address:
  •  Author's last name, first name. "Title of item" [Online] Available http://address/filename/date of document or download
  • e.g. DiStefano, Vince. "Guidelines for Better Writing" [Online] Available http://www.usa.net/~vinced/home/better-witing.html, October 5, 2002.