Archive for June, 2009

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Graduate School – Episode #90

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Site Scores:

Site Visual Information Code Overall
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Graduate School 68 75 87 (230/300) 77% C

Today’s Tip:

Page links to internal pages should not open in a new window unless necessary. Opening too many windows can be confusing to the user and breaks the back button. The users flow through your site should be your primary concern, if they cannot path through your site it is likely they will not have a good experience. As a general rule of thumb links to external sites should open in new windows while all others should open in the same.


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Kent State University – Episode #89

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Site Scores:

Site Visual Information Code Overall
Kent State University 70 74 60 (204/300) 68% D+

Today’s Tip:

Make all your content meaningful and have purpose. Please don’t try to scheme search engines but adding keywords for any other purpose than to help your users. This site may or may not have been trying to scheme the search engines but to me it looked like it. Content written for users always ranks high in search engines.


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