NYU is my college of choice

NYU is my college of choice. The first layer I will be analyzing is the Appearance layer. As you can see there are three drop down menus along the top. If you observe the quick links drop down menu. All of the links are functional, the only complaint I have that the drop down menu are not consistent through out all the pages. Which you will be able to observe on exhibit B.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

If you notice I had selected the career development link from the quick links drop down menu on the home page. The three drop down menus along the top are no longer there.

The site itself uses safe colors, the font is good everything is readable, and there is not a lot of wasted space through out the site. It is informative lets you know about events going on at NYU, it's up to date. i.e. the home page lists event for July 6th and 7th.

The next layer I will be analyzing is the Identification layer. This will answer who, what, when, where and why.

Who: Albert Gallatin

What: "Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the United States.".

When: Is answered in the above statement, 1831.

Why: Albert Gallatin , declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city...a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all."

Some 175 years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city...a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all." Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the United States. Of the more than 3,000 colleges and universities in America, New York University is one of only 60 member institutions of the distinguished Association of American Universities.

Where:

The center of NYU is its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village. One of the city's most creative and energetic communities, the Village is a historic neighborhood that has attracted generations of writers, musicians, artists, and intellectuals. Beyond the Village, New York City becomes an extension of the University's campus.

Exhibit C:

Exhibit D:

This map will answer where.

Search Layer

NYU offer a variety of search engines besides just Google. Unfortunately the A9 link is not functioning. Also under Directories the search pull down menu box is too small. This answers Correctness and Completeness

When I enter a common name in the search box of the directories section, I get every faculty, staff and students with the word Smith.

This answers Content

I also did a search test with a first and last name and the results are below.

The next test I will do is searching for "blank". It seems that nothing happens, I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

The next test will be for special characters. i.e. The & symbol.

Now we will do a test for case sensitivity.

The next example will be when we search for NYU.

HTML Layer

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">                                                               For those of you viewing the HTML,
1.   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">                                                                       I cut out some of the code so you
<head>                                                                                                                                           wouldn't have to scroll down too much.
<title>New York University</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />

<meta name="author" content="NYU Web Communications" />
<meta name="description" content="" />

<meta name="keywords" content="" />

<link rel="icon"2. href="/v55/images/favicon.gif" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/v55/images/favicon.gif" type="image/x-icon" />

</script>
</head>

3.<body class="homepage">
<div id="accessibility">
<a href="#navigation">Skip to Navigation</a> | <a href="#content">Skip to Content</a>
</div>

<
<ul>
<li class="home"><a href="https://home.nyu.edu/">NYUHome Login »</a></li>

4.<li class="links">Quick Links
<ul>
<li>5. <a href="/academics/academic.calendar.html">Academic Calendar</a></li>

<li class="search">
<form action="/search" name="search" method="get">
<fieldset>
<legend>Search</legend>
<input type="text" name="query" value="Search & Directory" /><button type="submit" name="submit" value="go">go</button>
</fieldset>
6. </form>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
#fff;" href="/about/video.spotlight.html">7. <img src="//www.nyu.edu/v55/images/hdr.videos.gif"><

<
+ ' <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />'
+ ' <EMBED src="/v55/videos/v1.vidpanel.swf?video=stevenson.bryan" quality="high" 8.bgcolor="#ffffff" width="240" height="203" name="v1.vidpanel" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />'
+ ' </EMBED>'
+ ' </OBJECT>

9. </table>
<h2 class='eventDate'>Friday, May 11, 2007</h2> <table>
<tbody>
<tr><td class='date'>All Day</td><td><a href='http://events.nyu.edu/?cmd=showevent&cal=cal12&id=112572' onclick='popUp("http://events.nyu.edu/?cm

The next example will be JavaScript.

Script Layer

This example is from http://www.nyu.edu/search/index.html

                                                 ***Implementation Methods***
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.nyu.edu/v55/scripts/EventHandler.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.nyu.edu/v55/scripts/DropDown.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var searchStr = 'Search & Directory';
function cleanSearch() {
document.search.query.onfocus = function() {if (this.value == searchStr) this.value = ''};
document.search.query.onblur = function() {if (this.value == '') tishis.value = searchStr};
}
addEvent(window, "load", cleanSearch, false);
addEvent(window, "load", function() {enableDropdown('utilities')}, false);
addEvent(window, "load", function() {enableDropdown('nav')}, false);

function popUp(URL,w,h) {
winl = (screen.width - w) / 2;
wint = (screen.height - h) / 2;                                        *In blue is an example of a function in
                                                                                  javascript.**
day = new Date();
id = day.getTime();
eval("page" + id + " = window.open(URL, '" + id + "', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,width="+w+",height="+h+",top="+wint+",left="+winl+"');");
}

function profilePopUp(URL,w,h) {
winl = (screen.width - w) / 2;
wint = (screen.height - h) / 2;

day = new Date();
id = day.getTime();
eval("page" + id + " = window.open(URL, '" + id + "', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width="+w+",height="+h+",top="+wint+",left="+winl+"');");
}
</script>
</head>

<body class="search">
<div id="accessibility">
<a href="#navigation">Skip to Navigation</a> | <a href="#content">Skip to Content</a>
</div>

<div id="outtercontainer" class="search">

<div id="mastercontainer" class="search">

<div id="innercontainer" class="search">

Database Layer

Database Layer

If you notice in the title bar ASP (active server pages) is displayed.

In this example you will notice that they have a job posted for a Java programmer. The highlighted section shows you what they are looking for.

It looks like NYU uses Unix as a language. Oracle for the database. Solaris is one of the operating systems. They also have ASP.

Privacy, Security and Ethics Layer

When you select Computer Security on the right hand side, they offer a list of services to help you.