- Site Should Be Easy To Navigate.
- If you use menus or icons that require downloading before
viewing, you should offer a text option.
- Your navigation icon/menu should work correctly.
- Ease Of Navigation.
- We would like to see easy ways to get back and forth between
your main content pages.
- Home Page link.
- Every page of your site must have a link to the home page.
Do not make your visitors have to use the BACK button.
- Don't Lose Us.
- If you display links to external sites, then your links
should open in a new window. We would like to be certain
whether or not we are at your site.
- Contact
- We like to see sites that have a way to contact the webmaster.
Having an email link on each page is a great way to accomplish
this.
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- TITLE and META Tags.
- META tags and TITLE tags are very useful -- your site
can easily be found with a search engine.
- We will use key words that you supply in your META Tags
to see how your site ranks in the search engines.
- For visitors who cannot load your images, can they see
what is written in the ALT tags (or remarks)?
- The loading time of your site should be under one minute
when using a 128k connection.
- Is HTML Coding Clear?
- We use such tools as Doctor
HTML and W3C
HTML Validation Service.
- Our evaluator inspects your HTML code in detail through
the use of these tools.
- Your HTML coding must be compatible with generally-used
browsers.
- Frames Should Operate Without Errors
- External links should not open in your frameset. We must
be allowed to leave your frames.
- No Excessive Advertising Banners.
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The criteria was updated on Jun.
22, 2004.
Please note: I reserve the
right to change my criteria at any time.
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