New design marked

Submitted by chris on Wed, 2004-10-27 23:43

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How timely is this?! I just redesigned this site today. (named the new theme palindrome ) And today, Chu Yeow wrote about this great site called Silktide SiteScore, which rates how well designed, popular and accessible your website is.

So, on to the scores:

6.9 for Marketing How well marketed, and popular the website is.

7.9 for Design How well designed and built the website is.

5.6 for Accessibility How accessible the website is, particularly to those with disabilities.

6.9 Experience How satisfying the website is likely to be.

6.8 Overall

I’d say it’s not bad for a design done in an afternoon. (from Photoshop mock-up to XHTML, or at least I think) I wonder what they use to judge user experience, though.

But the best part is, the site also suggested ways for you to improve the rating. Apparently I did quite well on speed and google ranking, but I need to use meta tags and make the site more accessible. I’m a sucker for standard, especially web standards. So I’ll be spending some time improving the score. I’m shooting for an 8.0, is that too much?