I am going to tell you a bit of a story. We all like stories right?
Early in WA training, you get asked to give feedback on someone else's website. This task was hard for me - I felt quite overwhelmed. What do I know? How will my thoughts help?
However, after getting into it and going on to other peoples - early and older - website creations, I noted a few things...
- I started to see what I hated
- Things that I liked
- Glaring mistakes that I now knew not to do
- Silly mistakes that could easily be overlooked
- Page presentations that were all over the place
- And well formatted content that I could find no flaw
- Pictures of all sizes and in all positions
- Pictures that were uniform and neat and on the right or centred
- I got to see website theme styles
- Website moods created by the author
- Some spoke to me and others definitely didn't
- Colour combinations and tones of colour
- I saw how content got written - reviews, about pages, etc
- I got a feel for where things should be on a page
- There were many different menu ideas
- Sidebar widgets that I loved and hated
- Footers that rocked!
- General Feedback was the easiest to give
- Content Feedback the hardest
- But by doing this I learned so much and this spilled over to my own website...
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HarveyBrown
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Great training Tracy, I have noticed that there are a few newbies that have not caught on to the value of site feedback. I hope they take your advice.
Henry-II
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Hi, Tracy!
I greatly appreciate your approach concerning feedback. I agree and will, in fact, bookmark this to use in further occasions. I benefited from your training because it’s brief and goes to the point.
I liked your story concerning the occasion when you received "Overall, I think your site has good content; however when I get on it and look at it, it just does not look all that exciting." That reminded me of a short comic, right here at WA, that you may enjoy reading :) Giving constructive feedback to site owners I’ll follow you here at WA! Please continue to upload useful trainings as this one! Keep well! All the best! :)
PD: I really love the graphics you made for this training. Keep up the good work! :)
I greatly appreciate your approach concerning feedback. I agree and will, in fact, bookmark this to use in further occasions. I benefited from your training because it’s brief and goes to the point.
I liked your story concerning the occasion when you received "Overall, I think your site has good content; however when I get on it and look at it, it just does not look all that exciting." That reminded me of a short comic, right here at WA, that you may enjoy reading :) Giving constructive feedback to site owners I’ll follow you here at WA! Please continue to upload useful trainings as this one! Keep well! All the best! :)
PD: I really love the graphics you made for this training. Keep up the good work! :)