Open AccessEl diseño de las sedes web municipales de España. Una propuesta metodológica para su análisis
Author(s) -
Valeriano Piñeiro-Naval,
Juan José Igartúa Perosanz,
Felipe de Jesús Marañón Lazcano
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
revista española de documentación científica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.369
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1988-4621
pISSN - 0210-0614
DOI - 10.3989/redc.2017.1.1368
Subject(s) - humanities , psychology , art
This paper examines the main aspects of the design of Spanish municipal websites: their visual appearance, information architecture and usability. A content analysis, which is a paradigmatic method used in communication research, was performed. One of the main steps of the protocol requires the development of a codebook that, in our case, consists of 41 variables. Likewise, following a strategic and reasoned grouping of some of these variables, we created a Formal Quality Index that was applied to the evaluation of the 500 websites in the study sample