All fields and services related to technology are undergoing a rapid revolution as a result of the rapid and broad technical breakthroughs. Websites that are evolving and changing in terms of design and request speed are one example (Blanden 25). The University of Sydney case study, which was modified to alleviate bottlenecks, permit information publishing, and enhance the on-site presentation, will be the subject of my thesis.
Control and presentation were two difficulties that content management software addressed. The exercise of control would have been handled if the University of Sydney had given up on the goal of adopting content management software and instead distributed site instructions to its units and encouraged them to use the site. However, with the guidelines being adopted, factors of site navigation among local community members, students and applicants to retrieve information achievable through a good site presentation would still be a hitch hence making the site ineffective. Presentation would be a factor especially among people visiting the site for the first time. A good site should offer a good interface, i.e. guidelines to information through drop-down menus etc. If the management software were not adopted, issues of presentation would still be a problem.
Advantages of a Good Site Presentation
Easy Navigation
A good website with the required consistent look and feel makes all the sections of the site belong to the same school. A good site is welcoming and easy to navigate (Chowdary et al.). If the website has no look and feels interface, navigation would be hard making the information retrieval process cumbersome hence discouraging people from using the website to find needed information. In the case, people will use calls to the administration to fetch information which is costly and renders the website null and void.
Responsive
A good site presentation makes the site responsive in that when a cursor is placed upon a command, it may give guidelines to aid a visitor and is important for average computer users and is important based on the fact that not everyone is a computer guru. Such a responsive site makes information retrieval easy and fast (Chowdary et al.)
If the university had embraced the idea of issuing site guidelines to enable posting information among faculty members possible, it would have fully achieved the problem of control where people could post web content freely but would have missed on addressing the presentation problem which is very important in a site as discussed above.
Effects of Freedom to Post Content
The new site gave faculty members the ability to publish their web content. The disadvantage of this ability is that some members may misuse the power and use it to post unnecessary information, i.e. organizational rumours (Patel and Patel 1759). On my view, although there are some disadvantages, I still think site freedom is a good idea because one will be able to share and express ideas that might be found useful and borrowed by others.
Sydney University site may be similar to a profit-making organizational site but differ with a religious site; this is because both school and profit-making organizations both receive a lot of site visitors seeking information at a higher rate hence need for a quick responsive site. A religious site is different because they do not receive numerous site visitors and they may not have to allow people to post web content as only those with religious doctrines should be allowed a contrast to school and profit organizational site which have numerous departments in function.
Works Cited
Blanden, Alex. "Information Resources and Useful Websites." Australasian Plant Conservation: Journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation, vol. 23, no. 2, 2014, p. 25.
Chowdary, C. Ravindranath, Anil Kumar Singh, and Anil Nelakanti. "Responding to Retrieval: A Proposal to Use Retrieval Information for Better Presentation of Website Content." International Conference on Web Engineering. Springer, Cham, 2015.
Patel, Vibhuti K., and Hasmukh Patel. "Safe Internet Browsing Using Heuristic Based Technique." IJEDR, vol. 2, no. 2, 2014, pp. 1759-1766.
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