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