Critique of The Prereq Blog

Filed under College blog reviews, December 10th, 2009 by admin

The Prereq is a website where you can find information on just about anything that has to do with colleges and college life. Geared toward college students, the blog is edited by the talented crew behind Unigo.com, a comprehensive site about everything college-related. Among the many topics that you will find on The Prereq are blog entries on The Stress of Moving Into a College Dorm, suggestions for books, health care, and more.

What’s good about The Prereq

One of the positive aspects of The Prereq blog is that the content is relevant. Students these days deal with a lot of subjects, issues, concerns, and problems. With the recession and health care problems adding to the everyday stresses of a college student, it can be very difficult for students to get by. Fortunately, blogs like The Prereq tackle these issues and the many other concerns of students, offering a place where students can come to learn, unwind, or just find a good book to read.

What needs improvement

My main problem with The Prereq blog is its layout and design. Even though the blog entries are categorized, the website doesn’t have a list of categories to make article browsing easier and more convenient. The only way to find more articles under a category is to find a blog entry under a specific category, then click on the link to that particular category. Other than manually searching for the blog categories, there is no way to tell what the other categories on the website are. Likewise, there’s no information about popular blog posts. In fact, the only navigation links on the page are “Home,” “About Us,” and the numerous links to other Unigo sites. Considering that the site has some good content, they could have done a much better job at making it more user-friendly.

Tags: , , , |

One Response to “Critique of The Prereq Blog”

  1. Barry says on December 10th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Thanks so much for the positive review.

    Also, thanks for pointing out this oversight. I have corrected it and added Categories and Archives to the navigation.

    Barry, CTO Unigo

Comments

You must be logged in to post a comment.