get reviewed
Hopefully you're a website owner who's looking for an honest review of their site. If you are, then you are more than welcome to take the opportunity to get reviewed! This review will give you constructive criticism and tips on how to make your site better and more user-friendly.
The rubric consists of five major criteria as listed below. Your site will get a score out of a possible 100 points. If you want me to present your score in another way (such as a letter grade, out of 5 stars, etc), simply let me know in the 'message' box of your application.
I'm not going to give out too many pre-requisites because I want to give any site who is in need of critique the opportunity to get some advice. Here are the few prerequisites you must meet and the rules you must follow:
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No private reviews. If you aren't willing to let others read reviews about your site then this isn't for you.
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Your site must have a good amount of content. I don't want to review archives of your blog!
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No xanga, myspace, blogspot, etc. sites allowed.
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If you've read all of the rules, put "only you and onions make me cry" in the for the "did you read the rules?" field.
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Make an effort to change your site a bit after I've critiqued it. What's the point of a review if you aren't going to learn from this?
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You must have a link back to my site before and while I'm reviewing you. You can either provide a text link or a 33x81 button which can be found here. A good way to do this is through an update / blog entry.
Sites that Got Reviewed
the breakdown
Site Name:
Your Site's Name
Browsed On:
Firefox. Internet Explorer
Duration:
how long it took to review your site
Reviewed On:
the date it was reviewed on
First Impression
The first impression I'll get from your site. Self explanatory, right? This part of the rubric will focus on the appearance of your site.
Layout
How your layout looks. Remember - you had to create the layout yourself! This means no pre-made layouts. Things I will take into consideration:
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navigation - how organized is your layout? Is it easy for the visitor to go from one page to another? Are the links too small to see? or perhaps the color of them is too close to that of the backgrounds? This is basically scoring you on how easy it is for users to navigate around your site.
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CSS - do the colors of your text match those of your design? No one wants to come across a site with a beautiful layout that has black text at a 12pt font in times new roman.
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Design - this focuses on the appearance of your design. Some things that I'll take into consideration are color, composition, originality and technique.
Content
What do you have to offer on your site? Weather its juicy blog entries, tutorials, services, downloadable graphics and layouts or even simple things to keep your visitor busy and happy.
I will also take into consideration the tone that you use on your site. I've came across many sites with very un-friendly, intimidating tones which often scared visitors to interact on the site (such as leaving comments, participating in contests, applying for STOMS, etc). It's important to keep a friendly, welcoming tone to make visitors comfortable while visiting your site.
This part part weighs heavily because at the end of the day, it's this part of your site that keeps visitors coming to your site!
Conclusion
Here I will point out anything that I've particularly liked or disliked about your site as well as an overall review of everything that I've seen.
the rubric
| First Impression | 10 |
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| Navigation | (5) |
| Design | (20) |
| CSS | (5) |
| Content | 50 |
| Conclusion | 10 |
| Total Possible Points | 100 |
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