3 More Website Evaluations!

My first entry for the new year! Well, first lab(Week 12) after the break and holidays, we continue our lessons with 3 more website evaluations. Once again, we were to select 3 more websites from our list of resources. I fired up my word processor and opened the list of websites that I had. I am quite surprise that I felt that so new to the sites that I had once visited them often for my previous reflections. Maybe the holidays and break were too long.

Well, I gone through the list of sites and visit the links one by one. As delegated by our lecturer, these are the next 3 sites that I had hand picked out from the list...

1. Lockergnome RSS & Atom Tips
   http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/
   rss/category/development
   
2. XML From the Inside Out
   http://www.xml.com
   
3. RSS Specifications
   http://www.rss-specifications.com/

Similar to the previous lab, I followed the template format that was given to us to evaluate on the websites. The format has a few categories we are suppose to evaluate on. These categories had somewhat given me the chances to explore the websites even more than I had done when I first found them. I got to explore their site and understand their goals, scope of their contents and the usability of their web design. Every single bit has to be taken into considerate to give a good appraisal to the site.

Such evaluations had somewhat taught me to appreciate a better way to surf the web. If I were to surf the websites along with the guidelines from the evaluation template, I will be able to surface out more information and understand the website better. With better comprehension of the site, I could also appreciate the website more!