In Learn to Write a Website Review, I outlined the framework of basic website review. If you are writing a basic website review then you only need to focus on design, navigation, content, and focus elements of a website. But a more complex website review will require you to focus many more elements after keeping all the elements of basic review in place. I would suggest you to read about basic Website Review before reading this post. I must tell you that writing more detailed review is more time consuming in comparison to the basic ones.
Fundamental
The first thing that should come after design, navigation, content, and focus elements in a website review is the fundamental check. You need to find out the following in a fundamental check:
- Is the navigation intuitive?
- Are the hyperlinks working properly?
- Is there any broken link?
- Does the website have a site map?
- Are the internal pages properly links with the home page and among themselves?
Effectiveness
Once you have verified the fundamentals of the website, you need to find out how effective website will be, and in order to do that try finding answers to the following questions:
- How difficult or easy it will be for a visitor to understand the purpose of the website?
- Will the visitors easily accomplish the goal the webmaster has in mind while creating the website?
- How much time will it take for the visitors to find out the core of the website?
- What element or elements will create hurdle in visitors’ mind?
Credentials
Almost all the websites has a about us page talking about what is the purpose of the website, who is running the show, what affiliations it got, etc. You need to find out that the credentials are properly laid or not, and in order to do that, you may need to answer the following:
- Can visitors easily find out who is running the show?
- Is the website written by one or multiple writers?
- Are the facts presented on the website right, and are they verifiable?
- Are the writers qualified to write on the topics website covers?
- Has the website got some industry affiliation or accreditation?
- Does it have Https (secure server)?
Advance elements
There are some more advance elements that you may care to find out for your review. You may want to find out the following:
- Color scheme (advanced design)
- Marketing and branding capability (branding and monetization)
- How quickly it loads (development issue)
- Are the widgets, forms, etc., working properly (development issue)
- What resolutions it supports (design element)
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Writing is fun, if you are in “the zone,” but it is the most torturous activity, if you are not in the zone. Today’s writing improvement tips will help you remain in the zone for long. I will tell you how to make your mind come into “the zone” just when it hears the word go.
Test your limit
The best way to train your mind to enter “the zone” is to force it to do what it never anticipated to do like asking your mind to concentrate on writing when crowd around you in the coffee house is having a gala. Make yourself write for 24 hours straight, or try writing in a toilet or while on a plane. The point is to test your limit.
Write and write more
This is the best advice anyone can give you to improve your writing. Write something, and then write something more about it, until you are exhausted, and then rewrite the whole stuff. If you want you can write it from different perspective altogether.
Have you taken a trip lately?
Take a road trip, or a train trip. If you want, you can even hitchhike on a truck to experience the world around you. The more experience you will have the better flow your writing will get. You cannot learn to write or be in “the zone” while sitting in the comfort of your air conditioned home.
Read, think and write
Do not be on the spree to complete yet another book. Go slow. Read the passage and meditate over it. Think why it has been written the way it has been written, and how you can make it better. Think over the story line, the development of characters, etc. Think and then read again.
Watch movies
A movie is nothing but a story told in a visual form. The more movies you watch, the better grasp you will have on the development of plots, characters, and story. Watch good quality films. Do not indulge in mediocre stuff.
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