Today I’m going to be writing something a little bit different: a review. I’m hoping to start a series where I’ll occasionally review different sites that you, the Teenius readers, will find interesting and helpful.
The first review is of WebmasterFormat.com. The site is an information point for webmasters (particularly beginners) who need advice on matters relating to their work. As well as that, there are numerous pages of helpful links and reviews of products that you will undoubtedly find useful. Here is an excerpt of the ‘About’ page to give you a better idea:
WebmasterFormat.com is a website specially developed to help new webmasters quickly and easily gather all the necessary info to develop, maintain and promote their very first website or a blog. While browsing our knowledge base you’ll find a lot of relevant and detailed guides about hosting, domain names, web development, e-commerce, and website promotion.
The Content
Let’s start with the important stuff. The content on this site is awesome! When I first started running sites, I read through a lot of forums for information and advice, but I genuinely wish that I’d just found this site instead. Not only do the articles contain tonnes of information a beginner would find priceless, it’s well written and set out in a way that makes the right information easy to find.
I won’t lie; to the more experienced webmaster the site probably won’t be that useful, but for what it’s made for (beginners), it holds some great information that is a pleasure to read. As well as that, there’s loads of articles, meaning that you can read in-depth information that will definitely help your website to grow.
There aren’t just articles though. As I mentioned earlier, there are loads of reviews of different products too (free and paid) which will be useful. For example, there is a section for CMS (Content Management Systems) which contains Wordpress as one of the products. Now, whilst a more experienced webmaster will know about WP, for a beginner this review is priceless as it introduces them to a tool that will help their site progress.
The Design
The design on this site is also pretty nifty. It’s extremely easy to find articles through the navigation menu on the left, which lists each individual article in a drop down menu that’s very well presented. It’s also easy to access the reviews as there are some tabs (that look a little out of place in my opinion) as well as being accessible through the drop down menu on the left.
Conclusion
In all honesty, the more experienced webmaster will undoubtedly know most the information on the site and therefore find it a tad tedious, but for a webmaster just starting out, it’s the ideal site and I highly recommend bookmarking it incase you ever need to find anything out.
To visit WebmasterFormat.com, click here.
Looks like a cool website. Good review! I am actually looking at building a website similar to this one, only there will be a lot more content for more advanced webmasters.
Cool! I look forward to seeing your site. Make sure you hit me up over Twitter when it’s finished!
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Hey Teenius,
Good writeup. I’m just going over there now to take a peak. I often get newbies emailing me asking me for good resources and this may be one that I have to add to the list.
Cheers,
Forest.
Yeah, definately. The site has tons of great information that a newbie would find invaluable. Glad you enjoyed the review.
Simon,
I like reviews when they are really targeted towards what I am interested in, and this was. Good job on analyzing this blog. I will check it out and see if it is worth referring to.
The reviews I do will all be related to blogging or MMO sites as that’s in keeping with the Teenius niche, and hopefully therefore my readers will enjoy them and find them useful.
I was thinking to make some changes in my blog. Its a good review. I will mind your post before making changes in my site.
Nice subject for writing. I like the changes.
May i ask you one thing? that have you choose the site randomly or have you choose any compilation of some unique sites.
No, I don’t choose them randomly. I select the sites that I think my readers would find interesting.
You are right blackjack rules its good subject to write up.
Hmmm must say nice website.. Nice review! Overall Good site!
Colors are pleasant, design is clear and nav is easy. It’s tough to rely info to newbies because its such a complex subject. U am never offeneded by dumbing it down.
Alot of times, I need very basic info even when I am familiar with the subject. I would test this site on 40 year old women with no site-building experience.
Good luck
Glad to hear you found it useful!
Looks to be a nice site.. I just thought somehow that the domain name is weird and somehow uncomplementing…
I must agree that I’m not 100% convinced by the domain, but other than that it’s a great site!
A decent looking site and a decent and neat interview about it. Great Simon
That’s great review about the Webmaster Format forums. Its always better to read reviews on your site. It not only helps in first look, its like getting all the trusted info from trusted friend like you.
Glad you enjoyed the review, but it’s not a forum!
Thanks for the great review. I would consider myself fairly experienced with coding and marketing but I still picked up some great tips from the forums.
Yeah. Whilst it’s aimed at newbs, there’s some great info in there for everyone!
ive had a good look at this product and only wish I new about it a couple of years ago (dont think it existed then…???) when I got started – looks very high quality indeed!
Good review. Always interesting to get perspective on different products available.