Tuesday, November 22, 2005
How to review websites
There are a number of steps to reviewing a website and here is just some:
Is the website current?
Personality - does the site's look and feel seem to match the subject matter, and align with the intended reader or market?
Is the sites content original and unique? There are tons of sites out there that are simply scraping the web and rehashing someonelses content.
Speed of loading - slow sites are painful.
Asthetics - Use of graphics, type, white space and eye-appeal and use of colors.
Useability - intelligent and logical hierachial navigation and accessability.
Spam - are there Banner ads, pop-ups, tracking scripts or is the site purely affiliatte links or scraped content? Does anything blink, scroll or move that is not an integral part of the content message? Is the page keyword loaded?
Distractions - are there visual elements, design elements, pictures, or content blocks that are distracting, or that keep you from flowing into the content message?
Does the coding validate? Refer to http://www.w3.org/ for exellent information and validation tools.
Is the website current?
Personality - does the site's look and feel seem to match the subject matter, and align with the intended reader or market?
Is the sites content original and unique? There are tons of sites out there that are simply scraping the web and rehashing someonelses content.
Speed of loading - slow sites are painful.
Asthetics - Use of graphics, type, white space and eye-appeal and use of colors.
Useability - intelligent and logical hierachial navigation and accessability.
Spam - are there Banner ads, pop-ups, tracking scripts or is the site purely affiliatte links or scraped content? Does anything blink, scroll or move that is not an integral part of the content message? Is the page keyword loaded?
Distractions - are there visual elements, design elements, pictures, or content blocks that are distracting, or that keep you from flowing into the content message?
Does the coding validate? Refer to http://www.w3.org/ for exellent information and validation tools.
