Medical Technology

We put Sitescore button on the right bottom (sidebar) for Medical Technology blog evaluation.
Even we are not weblog designer, but that is a great tool for web development, especially beginner like us.
Sitescore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible your website is.
You can try on Sitescore Silktide.com. Put your blog address started by www on the row and press enter. Wait a second and here our scores. If you check our score, you will find a cache version of us. Do a registration, login, and check the site.

Marketing

How well marketed, and popular the website is. (3.3)

We just started here. But incoming links and page ranking are not number one for us. Blogging is for sharing and learning with unique and quality content as long as we can.

Design

How well designed and built the website is. (8.6)

Maybe related to CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) and XHTML (eXtended HyperText Markup Language) validation. Using free blogger, we can not control all aspects, especially for navigation bar and comment form which usually not valid.

Accessibility

How accessible the website is, particularly to those with disabilities. (8.3)

Perhaps we should check our blog with Lynx browser first, so all of the text can be crawled perfectly. Remember to use alt tags for images, title tag, and reduce script/javascript.

Experience

How satisfying the website is likely to be. (9.2)

Score high caused by regular posting, we think.

Visitor rating
Votes from users with IP detection.

Good / bad points
Warning point: refer to less of incoming links (rarely visited; not popular on Google), not valid XHTML (violation of the British Disability Discrimination Act)
Excellent point: very quick to respond, proper use of modern technology (tableless)

Detailed breakdown
Makes proper use of title, heading, meta-tags, submit to all the search engines and applicable free directories.

Rating summary (0.3 / 10) Amount of text. We do not use flash regularly.

Rating summary (2.4 / 10) Incoming links. We need to build this later (a minimum of 40 links to any given website).

Rating summary (6.2 / 10) British legal requirements. Yes not valid yet (Blogger.com classic problems).

Rating summary (6.7 / 10) Use of style-sheets. Yes we use an valid external CSS, except Blogger's navbar.

Size of pages: small and should display quickly. Range of 27k - 42k in size. Yes small enough.

Rating summary (8.7 / 10) Speed. Your website responded in 0.64 seconds, and your homepage downloaded in 1.04 seconds. This is very fast. Yes, great for users.

Rating summary (9.3 / 10) Features (Search facility, RSS feed, Website map, Discussion forums).

And we got 10 scores for each no use of frames, wide use of forms, tableless, use of basic HTML tags and DOCTYPE (XHTML 1.0 Transtitional, the most type of web technology), favourite icon, no blinking or scrolling text (marquee), proper fonts (we think Arial or sans-serif is the best choice for screen reader and small font), no flash, no ads keywords, no redirects, less images (10/pages), free from spam/ads blocker, enough links number per pages (65.0), no audio, fine for page titles.

We knew in medical we have HONCode (hon.ch/) standard. But we are anonymous, so it would be difficult.
This documentation is important for the next evaluation. We will learn from each experiences. We hope this tool will help medical technology's site more better in the future.
Waiting for the next version of Sitescore...

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I can not find a specific literature to create the best design for medical blog in the recent technology. There is HON Code but not spesific for the blog. There are some specific tips for the best blog design but not for medical environment. Web log as known as weblog or blog is one of the fastest growing information and communication technology. There are some interesting blog made by medical professionals, physicians, nurses, pharmacist, etc. But I can not find the best design from medical view.

In the recent technology, growing Internet access, large screen, mobile technology, pay per volume based charging, excellent browser, web standard, etc. maybe there are some aspects which best to adopt as a medical blog designer.

Blog title, tagline, description
They should have clearly show on the top of the blog.

Author
Must clearly declare who you are, your contact/email (aware from spam), curriculum vitae, job description, specialities, photo.

Search facilities and Categories
These are useful for busy people. They want a specific topic.

Resources
Just mention your citation, resources, so it still contain evidence based medicine.

Contents
Make your article readable on the screen. Right font type (sans serif better than sans type), left alignment, listing, links, relative size, etc.

So build your medical blog with better design right now and reach your users with recent technology.

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This story is tell about Medical Technology blog as a new medical related blog. You will find the story of its author, blog design, blog accessories, blog advertisements, and some blogging tips here. Blog is one of (relatively new) information technology media product, so we are blogging too.

Blog author
We decided to be an anonymous (no person name) medical student so some of our friend can contribute to this blog. We have interested in medical, technology, and medical technology.

Blog design
We got this great blogger template design (3 column layout) from our friend, but he did modification before and we lost the first creator data here, so sorry. We were not claim it as our design. You can copy and change this template because all of under creative common license. Medical Technology blog using liquid design (flexible design for any screen resolutions without horizontal scrolling), external CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), and XHTML (eXtended HyperText Markup Language).

Blog accessories
We put some useful blog accessories:

• Social bookmarking for each articles (on main column/content; from bookmarkz.net/)
• Trackback (main column/content; haloscan.com/)
• Subscribe utilities: to subscribe this blog (not an article) or add to any services/bookmarks/feed readers (sidebar; addtoany.com, feeds.feedburner.com), subscribe using Blogger's widget (for blogger.com user) and widgetbox.com/, or subscribe via email (feedblitz.com/)
• Search the web/Google (google.com/)
• Search this blog (freefind.com/)
• Statistics utilities: to know who links here (wholinks2me.com/, technorati.com/), visitors characteristic (sitemeter.com/, feedblitz.com/, mypagerank.net/, mybloglog.com/)
• Simple site map (freefind.com/)
• Site validator: for Atom Feed (feedvalidator.org/), CSS (jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/), XHTML (validator.w3.org/)
• XHTML Friends Network (gmpg.org/xfn)
• Blog evaluation (design, popularity and accessibility) tool (sitescore.silktide.com/)
• Creative Commons License (creativecommons.org/)

Blog advertisements
We also put some advertisement from google ads and amazon's affiliates. It would help you to find the best think related to our topics.

Blogging tips (for medical technology blog users)

• You can use any browser, Firefox (browser for better (standard) and more secure browsing) is recommended
• You can use normal or maximize browser's window on any size of monitor's screen/resolution
• Use 'ctrl + [+]' (keyboard) to maximize font size, 'ctrl + [-]' to minimize, and 'ctrl + [0]' to revert default mode (on Firefox)
• Press F11 for full screen view, F11 again to revert
• Press 'ctrl + P' to print the page
• Press F5 to refresh the page

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