Review Guidelines
Potential product reviewers should submit a short
introductory email that includes URLs to an online
resume, and one or two paragraphs as an example
of the opening paragraphs of a product review. The example
may be of a product you have on your hard drive. (The
WDVL will supply software for actual reviews).
Review Format
- Keywords
- Supply up to 12 words or word pairs that would be most
likely to get relevant finds from search engines.
- Abstract
- A short paragraph that we can adapt for the WDVL home
page blurb and promotion; use appropriate keywords. It
will also appear on the first page of your published article.
- Product Info
- Include the following product information:
- Name
- Website
- Price
- File Size
- Images
- We will require at least two screen shots and an image of the
box, if one is available.
Minimal HTML 4.0
All submissions must be in valid HTML 4.0. We encourage
validation using a service such as the one provided by W3C,
and checking your article in multiple browsers (including
WebTV if possible, and/or Lynx) on multiple platforms; please
also test with image loading turned off.
A classic error which will cause you to 'fail' validation is putting
block elements e.g. <P> inside <FONT>,
i.e. you have to close
the font on every paragraph. BUT you can declare a
BASEFONT at the beginning and that then applies to the whole
document, and if you want variations, e.g. for headings, you can
do them individually.
Add ALT, HEIGHT and WIDTH to all image tags. ALT is now
required by HTML 4.0 in order to validate while the
HEIGHT/WIDTH allows the text to load without having to wait for
your images.
We strongly prefer that you don't use an HTML editor - they
generate horrible code which makes it more difficult for us to
use. We prefer to work with straight text or simple HTML written
by hand, rather than HTML editor output which tends to cause
us problems.
Please send us your review as a URL to an HTML 4.0
document.
Resumés and questions may be directed to our
Acquisitions Editor
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