This is a review of web-articles.info, an online directory of web services related articles. Said articles are submitted by different sources who would like their pieces included in the directory. Since this is a review, let us look at both what is good and what is bad with said website.
First, here’s the good side. We like the fact that the site facilitates the sharing of information and is mindful of the need to cite/link to one’s sources. We are a fan of information sharing and we also believe that if you borrow anything from the web, the decent thing to do is to link back to where you borrowed.
Now, here’s our negative feedback which, we hope, will be taken positively by the website owner. One, there is a need to check the site content’s spelling and grammar. Sure, we can be lenient with grammar and bad spellings in the web; after all, internet publishing means instant publishing so grammatical and spelling lapses are understandable and can be excusable. However, there is such a thing as too many mistakes that can turn off your readers.
Second, the articles are hard to read because 1) the font is too small and 2) the articles run from the left edge of the computer to the other edge. In newspaper parlance, it’s just too much gray space. The effect of this gray space? It looks unfriendly and un-inviting; it is likely that only a very dutiful or a very information-hungry reader will have the patience to read the articles.
How to solve these problems? To us, it would be increasing the font and changing the one column format for the articles into two columns.
So that’s our review, friends.
Here’s an article by Maurice Malanes on how we are losing our traditional crop varieties and replacing them with high-yielding ones which require a lot of input such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The result? The farmers become trapped in a cycle of debt and dependency. Biro mo, kailangan nilang bumili ng seeds every time they plant. With these high yielding varieties, you cannot just save your seeds to plant for the next season. You have to buy new seeds every time and, as mentioned above, these varieties require a lot of fertilizer and pesticides.
Who are pushing for this tragedy to happen? Foreign agri-business companies and their local minions a.k.a Gloria and the Department of Agriculture.
By the way, in case you’ve not been visiting Maurice’s blog, he has other must-read articles which are really worth reading.
