Today I’m reviewing a website about Chromatography, which I have no idea what Chromatography is. I am not very good from Chemistry or any other sciences for that matter, so, for the purposes of this review, I am going to avoid talking about the content, because it is way over my head. I’m also just going to jump into the criticism of this website straight into the review and say what sort of changes I would do to this website.

For starters, I’m going to mention something that a non-webmaster friend told me when I showed him the website. He doesn’t know anything about SEO or owning a website, but these are the things he noticed as merely an internet user. These are direct quotes: “too much scrolling, bigger header, lot of blank space to the right?, you also ahve to scroll all the way down to see recent entries, comments, and most commented” (Yes, I know there are typo’s there). From the stuff my friend pointed out, I’d like to talk about the header. I’ve never really had many people use my search bar (although today someone searched the term “porn” on my blog today…), and JustChromatography.com has a search bar as big as the rest of the websites navigation. I would really consider making your nav bar a little bigger if you wanted to get more clicks there.

I personally think that JustChromatography.com could use a new about page. If you take a close look, their current page only has a few sentences about the author, then a little text telling you what his email is. I would recommend installing a nice Wordpress contact plugin, and really expanding his about page (maybe include a few pictures to connect more with his readers?). The main thing I think Chemist, aka Sandesh needs on his blog is some sort of RSS button, using the standard RSS icon. He is currently limiting his subscribers to only subscribe via Google and Yahoo, and he is completely missing out on all the other subscribers.  Oh, and what’s WiTricity?

There’s actually a few other things he should consider looking at, such as removing his footer, which is probably generating no click-thru’s to other pages and stuff like that, but I think I’ve mentioned enough for one day. Still, you’ve really got to commend that guy for blogging about such an intricate niche. Seeing blogs like this one only confirms my decision to have a business major in college…

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