Website Design Reviews are written by the Mequoda Research Team, based on our Website Design Scorecard that features 14 website design guidelines, and focuses on the websites of today’s top publishers.
To create the 14 website design guidelines, we’ve reviewed hundreds of websites and interviewed dozens of website publishers. We’ve conducted a series of expert usability reviews and actual user tests to determine what we believe to be the top 14 best practices for successful website publishing.
In this section, you’ll find publisher websites reviewed based on this scorecard. To submit your website to be reviewed, email Chris Sturk at Christopher@Mequoda.com.
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With a final score of B, BLR.com is a site, or a "network" of sites, that is already far better than average, but could be truly outstanding if only they
When Editor Don Nicholas asked me to review BlueDolphin.com, I was a bit hesitant. After all, he served as the Company's CEO from its inception until 2003, when he ventured
Reviewing WSJ.com, the “largest paid subscription news site on the Web," feels a little like the being the kid in the children’s story "The Emperor’s New Clothes." In the story,
Of all the dot-com companies that were launched in the 1990s, it can be argued that eBay.com is the most successful. Twenty-four percent of all e-commerce in the United States
At first blush, Monster.com appears to be an unemployed person’s best bet... hundreds of thousands of jobs just a few keystrokes away. But let’s take a moment to run it
A confession: I am not the target prospect for bluenile.com, an online marketer of jewelry, because I don’t like or wear jewelry (my wife is not a jewelry “nut” either,
At first glance, it looks like they are generating revenue primarily through Google's AdSense program, as "Ads by Gooooooogle" are taking up a good portion of the homepage real estate.
Once
The first criteria is to analyze how quickly and clearly the site’s intention is communicated to first-time visitors. The BookReporter.com banner is immediately followed by a clear and unambiguous tagline:
There are two things in life that make us feel successful and powerful, or weak and ineffectual: sex and money. Today, we're talking about money.
The very thought of going to
