1. Does the site communicate clearly and efficiently with logical organization?

2. Does the site communicate how the user can benefit from the site?

3. Does the site meet high-quality publishing standards by being error free?

1. Is the font on the site easy to read?

2. Do headings, bulleted lists, numbered lists, and other textual components make verbal content more graphic and thus easy to read and understand?

3. Are text formats suitable in terms of color contrasts, fonts, and density of text?

1. Does the site provide a context for understanding the text, including familiar terms and phrases?

2. Is the site's language vivid, active, and personable?

3. Is the reader able to follow the concepts being presented and remember them?

1. Does the layout of the site look welcoming and interesting, combining graphic and text elements well?

2. Do all the graphic elements balance well with each other rather than compete?

3. Are graphics used effectively to increase the clarity and communication of the site?

1. Is the style of the page suitable for the purpose, content, and intended audience for the site?

2. Do the various stylistic elements of the page seem to fit together, including color combinations, fonts, and graphic elements?

3. Do the various stylistic elements create an overall effect that is attractive?

1. Does the design present a simplified, visually oriented way of accessing the site and its content?

2. Is an appropriate, consistent visual style used throughout the site (including buttons, colors, layout, typography, and the metaphor it might employ)?

3. Do visual relations and contrasts create pleasing effects that help orient visitors to the site's organization?

1. Is the interface clear and predictable?

2. Do users learn how to interact with the site without difficulty or frustration?

3. Do users successfully accomplish what they came to do?

1. Is it immediately clear how users can move around the site?

2. Are users able to move around the site, forward and backward, without encountering barriers, dead ends, or other frustrations?

3. Are users able to make guided choices on the site, or are they forced to resort to trial and error?

1. Are users able to accomplish tasks that are of value to them while visiting the site?

2. Will users remember the site for providing something of value?

3. Will users come back to the site the next time they need to accomplish a similar task?

1. Is it clear what types of visitors this site hopes to engage?

2. Would the site draw these intended visitors and succeed at engaging them in interaction?

3. Would these targeted users recognize immediately that this is a site with which they would benefit from interaction?

1. Is the site purposeful from a user viewpoint (for knowledge, decision support, accomplishing tasks, interconnectedness, enjoyable experience)?

2. Is the user-centered purpose of the site immediately apparent from the entry page and forward?

3. Will the site invite in and engage visitors who arrive to accomplish this purpose?

1. Would visitors feel sufficient comfort, trust, understanding, and warmth to be drawn to relate to the site actively?

2. Would the have the sense that they are appreciated and that they have entered into a positive relationship?

3. Will this sense of relationship be sufficiently engaging to bring them back?