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Bloggos and Web Design

A few days ago the Bloggos committee released the evaluation form that will be used to decide the best 5 costarican blogs. Since there are no categories for the winners and all blogs are evaluated the same, many different things are taken into account: content, name, layout, use of images, grammar, innovation and design, among some others.

I’m no authority but I think this formula is flawed. Why? Because the same weight is being given to all the different aspects of the form. There are ten categories, each will be evaluated from 1 to 5, 5 being excelent.

Take “Name of the Blog” and “General Design” for example. A blog named “asdf” but with an impressive design might get 1 and 5 respectively; while a blog named something funny and nice but whose design is ugly and unpleasant might get 5 and 1. And then you get both blogs tied in *6*.

In my humble opinion, content and design should have a lot more weight over grammar, name of the blog and even the header categories.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to start a senseless rant here (maybe just a little), I still believe this is a worthy effort and the jury will give enough focus on content and the top 5 will truly be the best blogs.

comments [2] | tagged as: Rant, Web Design

1631 days ago, shanlucid said:

understood. not sure i agree but understood. we’ll think of that for next year, be sure of that. for now, resignation and remember that the best blog sould be the best in ALL aspects. Anyways, thanks for your comments.

1631 days ago, Allan Rojas said:

;-)

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