1Hexaware Technologies Ltd., Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai, 600 058, India, E-mail: Narendrakumar_am@yahoo.com.
2Department of Information Science, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai, 600 005, India, E-mail: beeraka_r@yahoo.co.uk.
3Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chrompet, Chennai, 600 044, India, E-mail: gopal@mitindia.edu.
4Society for Electronic Transactions and Security, Nungambakkam, Chennai, 600 034, India, E-mail: nageswar_p77@rediffmail.com.
When constructing websites, designers usually rely on style guides, prior experience and their own intuition to determine where to position particular web objects on a web page. This position may vary based on the type of web site and institutions. This paper aims to study the pattern and analyse the various aspects of the location of web objects and links of university web sites in Tamil Nadu. A total of 43 universities in Tamil Nadu were considered which includes, 17 affiliating universities, 5 unitary universities and 21 private universities. The analysis of the data represents the location of web objects and the pattern adopted by the universities in Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu Universities, Web objects and links, Web credibility, Web usability, University websites
