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The TomStardust site has instant appeal with its modern design, liquid layout, and functionality. It has the “look” consistent with today’s web. Clear, easy to digest, visually top-notch. It does, however, have a handful of significant shortcomings and the grades will reflect this. It was a very difficult site to grade; trying to balance the score between the goodness we saw and the problems we noted. It wasn’t easy at all.

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The FriendlyBit web site is well-named as our first impression of it was that it is indeed a friendly site — as in user-friendly. It’s clear, concise, and pleasing to the eye. It’s not overly complex, and as a content delivery system it seems practical and generally well-done. We found a few things that bothered us, but that’s nothing new. We’re (un)paid to eye sites critically. This site does have an error that was justified upon submission..

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The Institute for Social & Economic Research & Policy or ISERP website is a website well-done. It’s sprawling and extensive, yet it retains a high level of usability and shorts not its visitors in terms of accessibility and functionality. Builders of most websites, especially large ones, have to make some compromises; a balance must be struck. This site strikes this balance well and with a polished, professional touch.

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The Tyssen Design (2) site is, for lack of a better term, hot. It’s very contemporary in its design and many of its features are inline with what we see on the web nowadays. This is a re-design/re-submission and although the original design submission was nice, this one’s a lot nicer. As is normal, we found a few things which brought the score down, but it is our job.

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