This report is a critical appraisal of three web-sites. The category chosen for this assignment was : Educational Institutions in Queensland. The websites that were reviewed were:

1. Queensland University of Technology :
http://www.qut.edu.au

2. South Bank Institute of TAFE : http://www.southbank.tafe.net

3. Central Queensland University : http://www.cqu.edu.au/

To start with, very basic usability tests were done. Attempts were made to extract two pieces of information:
a. Finding courses in the field of Visual Arts
b. Finding a way to correspond with the institute via email or telephone


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A critique of the overall look and feel was done with regards to use of colour, space and grid layout. Simple accessibility features such as scalability of fonts was tested. Finally, the urls were fed into the validators of W3.org to get feedback on XHTML accuracy and broken links.