Comparison Between Two Schemes Of Web Site Design

Abstract

This study is concerned with two design schemes of the web site of Al-Salam Hospital at Mosul city, northern Iraq. Two schemes based on PHP and HTML languages and JavaScript and HTML languages are employed for the design of site(1) and site(2) respectively. The two sites are compared on the basis of loading time and validation of the web site pages. Experiments are assembled to the purpose. Page loading experiments show relative decrease in measured time on repetition of loading of each selected page and with decrease in speed of internet line (160,64,40 Kbps). Page loading to site(1) is faster than loading to site(2), and the loading time to both sites are significantly correlated ( r=0.94), however, loading time to each site are insignificantly correlated ( r<0.2) with theoretical loading time. Calculation of ( r ) for separate sets of data shows similar factors affecting the time of page loading to both sites.Image size determines the time of page loading at line speed, of 40 Kbps, where as, at speed of 64 and 160 Kbps, the influence of page size on page loading time is prevailed.Validation experiments shows that improper filling of name , age and e-mail produce error in site(2) while site(1) accept incorrect filling.Due to the fact that the designed sites are informational and humanitarian ones, it is expected that name, age and e-mail are properly filled. Therefore, preference of the design scheme of site(1) based on PHP and HTML languages is concluded.Keywords: Web site design, design schemes comparison, loading time experiments, validity experiment, influential factors of loading time and validity