Save the time of the surfer: evaluating Web sites for users

A good web site has a purpose for the designer who wrote the page, the editor who maintains it and the Web surfer who finds it. One can think about this by paraphrasing and restating Ranganathan‘s Five Laws of Library Science, beginning with this one: “Web sites are for use.” A Web site without without a potential audience is pointless; a purposeless Web site will have no audience.