Assessing the Quality of Educational Websites in Sudan using Quality Model Criteria through an Electronic Tool

Abstract

The application of internet has grown in recent years. Due to this, there is an increase in the number of websites which creates diversity in the services. This leads the researchers to do more research in the quality of websites in order to set standards and models to maintain its quality. The main objective of these standards is to support the trust and speed which is the cornerstone which are the basis for using websites. Various statistics reports show that the sites of institutions and companies which applied the quality standards have achieved high rates in terms of the user satisfaction and the number of visitors. This study has incorporates the concept of website and electronic gates, its objectives, advantages, types and in addition to its quality and standards of e-websites. It also touched on previous studies conducted on website in the world, the Arab world and African peninsula and also in the Sudan in support of the development of Sudanese websites. The proposed models consist of important metrics to evaluate the application, quality of content, aesthetic aspects, multimedia, reputation and security etc. This paper also proposed an application for evaluating the quality of websites based. This model is applied on Sudanese websites such as governmental, educational, and commercial etc. The authors used the object oriented programing approach to build the proposed model using the PHP language with the combination of CSS and Java script.