Development and evaluation of eastern samar state University-Can-avid campus website

Abstract

To provide an avenue for the university where it can share its profile, mission, vision, policies, achievements, capabilities, news and activities in the local, national and international arena of the academe, the IT Development Team of ESSU Can-avid Campus developed the website of the Campus using PHP and WordPress. A descriptive-developmental method of research was utilized to emphasize the development of the web application. Requirements Analysis was done to determine the important features that the website must contain per user definition. After development, the website was subjected to quality evaluation to describe the performance of the software through an evaluation survey questionnaire based on ISO/IEC9126 software quality standards. 303 direct end-users from among IT experts, employees and students of the campus were asked to evaluate the functionality and usability of the website. Evaluation results showed almost 100% compliance of the system requirements specified by the target clients and a highly usable software overall performance rating. The website, if regularly maintained will boast the organization valued image on the web and further increase clients and enrollees of the Campus.