Friday, October 8, 2010

Today I learned about evaluating websites.

This weeks' assignments were very interesting. Mostly because I have played with source code and HTML, and I have always kind of subconsciously evaluated web sites, but this is the first time I have ever had to take the time to look closely at what makes a site "good" or "bad."

I spent time examining page info and source code for things that might not be obvious: If the author did not identify him/herself in text, did he/she tuck it away somewhere else? Were tables used? Were there hidden comments that might be interesting?

The thing that I found most interesting is something that I did not know you could do -- "link:" Now that I know about this kind of cyber-stalking, I did a little research and found that it is not as comprehensive as it once was. Not all links are returned in the search. But it is still kind of geeky cool.

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