It’s the all new Websites for writers!

10 January 2010 in Updates

You might have noticed that Websites for writers has had a bit of a facelift over the last couple of weeks. There are still a couple of changes to make that should improve the site further, but all in all, this is it!

The look and feel is much the same, but hopefully it should be easier to move around the site and with the search function, easier to find what you want. The ratings system remains, so do keep voting for those sites you stumble across and think deserve special mention. I’ll be pulling out a few favourites of my own over the coming weeks.

Let me know what you think and enjoy!

Responses to “It’s the all new Websites for writers!”

ollie_francis 10.01.2010 at 22:26
Loving the site. It looks brilliant and it’s wonderful to have all these links in one place.

Thanks Iain!
Tundra 11.01.2010 at 07:46
I think it’s looking fantastic.
Tundra 21.01.2010 at 04:08
I don’t know if this is the right place to post it, but is there a stable ‘meaning’ for the stars? Since there are so many good websites on this site, can they all be 4/5? Are we comparing them to each other, or for their own merit? Is a ‘3′ average, 2 slightly below average, 1 bad, 4, above average, 5 excellent? Is it just up to people to make up their own star criteria? I could be rating it as ‘1, don’t like it, 2, would try it, 3 I like it, 4, I love it, 5 it’s my favourite site ever’

Or am I just confused about nothing.
Iain Broome 21.01.2010 at 10:44
@Tundra The ratings are defined by the user in the sense that there are no definitions. I know what you mean though, we may all have our different take on what ‘a four’ is. To be truthful, although the site gets a lot of daily traffic, not many people leave a rating, which makes me wonder whether it’s worth having the system at all.

What do you think?
Tundra 22.01.2010 at 02:44
I think the rating system could be really useful later on. Not that many people leave ratings on youtube videos either but when they do…

I think part of the problem here is that everyone has submitted (or you have put up… do you get many submissions?) sites that they already think are The Best. So rating the best of the best is tricky! I’d be going around giving them all a four.
Which is why I’ve been tending to use my second example of a rating system, and I just hope that I’m not saying with ‘2s’ that ‘this site sucks!’.

I think keep it. It’ll pick up.

Do you actually encourage comments on the sites? Most comments so far have been from major fans of the websites, or from owners. If I said ‘yeah it looks good, but…’ is that okay?
Tundra 22.01.2010 at 03:31
Oh, and I know other people rate things as ‘five’ when there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s like they think it’s rude to give less.

I’m going through and rating things now.

But I’m getting confused on some of them, that I’d never use, but could be good or excellent for other people!