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ME portals health check

Posted: November 22nd, 2006 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: UAE, Web-Design | 8 Comments »

In the next few days I’ll be starting a new series of reviews and I’ll examine the news portals in the Middle East. I’m going to evaluate Design, Information Architecture, and most important than all Ads real value (not price) based on content visibility and navigation through out portals’ pages.

Starters, I’m going to digest 7days and move on to bigger portals of likes of AMEInfo, AlJazeera and AlArabeya.

Update:I was asked to clarify the criteria and the testing environment, here it goes:

  • Screen resolution: 1024×768
  • Browsers: IE6, IE7, FF, Safari 2 (rough test, not so strict)
  • Connection speed: 1MBit

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8 Comments on “ME portals health check”

  1. 1 Rida Al Barazi said at 2:46 am on November 23rd, 2006:

    That will be a lot of fun man :) I’ll be waiting..

  2. 2 Rami Kayyali said at 4:44 am on November 23rd, 2006:

    Ditto.

  3. 3 wicker furniture said at 5:01 am on November 24th, 2006:

    I heard there’s a lot of fuss going on about the economic opportunities in the middle east, everybody wants a chance to invest in the land of the black gold, who knows, maybe you’ll get paid in oil fields?

  4. 4 dotone said at 12:41 pm on November 24th, 2006:

    I’ll try to make it fun, wait up.

  5. 5 Meble Stylowe said at 2:38 am on February 6th, 2007:

    Enjoyed browsing through the site. Keep up the good work. Greetings nad thanks

  6. 6 Search said at 10:34 am on February 18th, 2007:

    that will be fun, it makes me happy.

  7. 7 Versand said at 12:14 am on March 22nd, 2007:

    Great, I´ll be waiting with pleasure for the new articles, keep on the good work.

  8. 8 Tanie linie lotnicze said at 3:32 am on March 23rd, 2007:

    Fantastic article covering some points I really needed some good usability info for.