Medical Weblog Review
February 8, 2009 – 17:30 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 270.Last updated: Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 9:29.
This medical weblog review is about Dani Iswara .Net site in general. From time to time. On old post about Medical Weblog Design, I found some medical weblogs have:
- Too long scroll down.
Which could mean slow loading for some of dial-up Internet connection users (especially in Indonesia).
It might make the home page too heavy to load in the reasonable time.- No excerpt (read more styles) post.
It means many of them use short brief posts.
But for the long post, it could refer to the first point.
As a volume-based Internet users and slow Internet connection, sometimes I hate them.
Then, on one of my favorite’s post — kind a summary of Dani Iswara .Net, with plain English, I wrote about Medical Website Design for Healthcare Marketing. See some quotes below:
Patients and health consumers often ‘more knowledgeable’ than the doctor itself. They do some ‘research’ on Google, Yahoo or MSN search engines. Online health seekers are growing as fast as medical technology…
Just like Medical Googler vs Medical Blogger.
Medical website or weblog has some special aspects:
…make medical website/weblog different from regular web design:
- authority
- contactable
- updated content
- advertising/funding policy
- disclaimer
Write those points clearly for consumers. Even you have to choose an anonym or pseudonym identity, let visitor be able to contact you…
Why? Because the safety of health-medical information on the Internet is on your own, doctors.
More useful if your medical website/weblog use web standard rules. HTML/XHTML standard compliances and accessibilities. Imagine that disabilities people can navigate and read/hear our content with easy on screen reader/speech reader.
Currently, I am still on the track for those purpose, as a learner and newbie. 
