Articles

Here are articles written by me that relate to reviewing. They are my opinions and should be read as opinions. Please do not copy and paste these onto another website or rewrite the articles for your own website.

Quick links: My tips to you | How I review

My tips to you

So many review sites pop up all the time. It seems that people think that if they own a website, even for just a few months, they can own a review site and begin critiquing others' works. However, many tend to be failures. The owners get tired of reviewing quickly or others begin criticizing the review site for poor reviews. Here are some tips to help review sites, especially new ones.

Set 1: Presenting the review
These are tips on the visual aspects of a review.

Set 2: How the review is written
I think a good review is written with proper grammar/spelling as well as an easy to understand tone.

Set 3: What's included in a review
Several WPRs think that they have to include certain things in their reviews to be good, and that's just ridiculous.

How I review

These are articles that explain my reviewing process and how I think. It might help reviewees understand why I pick at certain things more than others.

The reviewing process (coming soon)
I don't write a review in one sitting. This explains how I break my reviewing process down.

User interface principles and reviewing (coming soon)
I work on user interface development for software for a living. What I look for in my job relates to how I view things on a website.

Why the point system? (coming soon)
The point system is generally frowned upon on WPRs, so why do I use it? I have my reasons for it, and I try to make it clear as to why points are deducted.