Sunita Murphy Design 2009 Semester 1: November 2009

What did the survey results show?

The survey showed that people weren't very impressed with the RSS instruction pages having 55.6% saying the page was not really visually exciting but 53.8% were satisfied with the content. Most of the second page showed that people didn't select any responses whether that was due to not completing the survey properly or not wanting to answer the questions.
69.2% of people thought there could be better contrast with the imagines n the page. This is where my issue with opacity on the parent element was affecting the child element, making the images opaque.

Were there any questions that were not effective? Which ones?

The responses to the questions were all useful and effective,therefore I feel that all the questions used in our survey were all effective.

If you had to develop the survey over again, what would you do differently?

Because I noticed that people were missing questions which could and would have affected the results of the survey I feel that next time if i was to create a survey I would make the questions "required". This would mean that if someone missed a question they would be notified and would be prompted to fill out the answer.

What do you think are the best things about collaborative writing with wikis? Are there any features which you would avoid in future?

I think the best part about using wikis is that you can have more than one person using an account and can interact with each other. Being able to use the whiteboard among several users would be very useful when other workers or colleagues are unable to attend a meeting. They can still help and add ideas by being on the account and the board is being constantly updated. I didn't find any features that I wouldn't use but i suppose that as I use the site more ill find things that I would want to avoid I guess.

What are the advantages of online surveys? Are there any disadvantages? Is there information you cannot capture?

There are so many advantages of having a survey online. The biggest one is that there is a huge population and range of audience on the Internet so that your survey would have more accurate results. Also if the survey is about a website or something that can be found on the web it is better to have a survey where it directly relates. To be asking people to fill out a hard copy survey that they would need to go out of their way to see the site to be able fill out the survey would just be time consuming and not very appropriate.

I suppose the disadvantage of having a survey online is that task that would be needed to get people to fill out the survey and have it noticed because there are always so many things happening on the Internet.

I personally don't think there is any type of information you cant get on the Internet however I can see how doing a survey with people in a group could still be useful and shouldn't be ruled out as a way to get good feedback.

How is the World Wide Web related to the Internet?

The web is an application that sits on top of the Internet. It uses the OSI layers. This uses seven layers First layer is the physical layer then Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation and Application layer.