Website Review

Website Review
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With its headquarters in New York, the Association for Computing Machinery is one the largest international society, hosting scholarly information for students and professionals within the field of information technology. The society’s internet portal is one of the leading in the industry and supplies the customers to the site with information and technology material. Much of the information on the site is on computing literature, pioneering literature and publications that are authoritative. Membership at the society does not attract profit and has grown to more than 80,000 worldwide.
At the heart of a webpage is the structure, due to the fact that this underlines the basics of usability of the site. The easier the structure for the users to follow, the more traffic it gains in the long run. The organization of the page is orderly, with header, navigation and the content panes strategically placed for the ease of use by the clients. The welcome page highlights the general theme of the site with regard to information technology (Association for Computing Machinery, 2014). On the navigation pane, there are the various contents links to the site material from the libraries to the calendar events among others. This provides an easy access to the content, and the clients to the site do not have a hard time getting to what they may be looking for from the site. For further enquiries in the libraries, one can even search for specific content, making the site friendly to use. The organization of the publications and the educational activities is very orderly and the clients have an easy time looking for specific content. This is quite crucial especially when one is looking for scholarly material, due to the level of detail one has to attend to at any one time. With the thorough organization of the content on the site, researching for material on computing from the site is rather easy.
Much of the content on the site relates to computing and there is not much else on other topics. Clients looking solely for information technology information will find this site extremely helpful in their studies whichever the level they are at, since the material spreads from the novice levels to the experts’ levels. For those looking for educational information beyond the information technology, they will be at a loss trying to research from this site. The idea of having a single set of information on the site is quite appealing especially with reference to the refinement of the information presented on the site. With more than one education sections, the site may become bloated with bits and parts of the topics, without the refinement ACM offers by restricting the material to technology. However, it also means that the content is only important ...