Medical Blog with Web Standards, Accessibility, and Usability

Posted: April 26, 2009 at 04:44:03 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 253.
Last updated: April 28, 2009 at 18:05:32.

Web standards, accessibility, and usability are not a common issue in medical blog. But it doesn't mean nobody care of those W3C recommendations. I found nice collaboration between a web designer and doctor. The doctor, a dentist actually, has launched his new business in General and Cosmetic dentistry. To promote his new dental office web site, he asked his brother who is a web designer and developer, to help his web-based marketing plan. On his blog post, Dental Blog is Sign of the Times, Dennis E. Lembree (podcast's author of web accessibility, Web Axe) recently build a dental blog of his brother, Blog of a Michigan Dentist. As a web professional, Dennis Lembree suggested these things:
  • Tweak keywords in Meta data, page titles, etc.
  • Create a dental blog entry (consistently) once a week, and on the same day.
  • Publish press releases once in a while.
  • Submit his site to search engines once every 6 months.
  • Change his Twitter account name from personal to professional, and balance tweets about both sides of life.
  • Create LinkedIn and Yelp profiles (actually his great idea!).
  • Put Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Blog links on his office web site.
  • And of course, ensure accessible, semantic HTML markup with web standards!
The questions are:
  1. Should we do site submitting every 6 months?
  2. Would users keep the accessibility, semantic XHTML, and web standards status without a basic knowledge of it? Who cares with its consistency?
  3. Do web design structure helps to ensure quality of medical information on the Internet?
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11 Responses to post titled: Medical Blog with Web Standards, Accessibility, and Usability

  1. Comment by Cahya on April 28, 2009 at 21:30:43
    using Firefox 3.0.9 on Windows Vista

    Saya kunjungi, blog-nya memang ringan dan nyaman..., but how about attractivity, someday one may wondering to vist his page again if one could get "sticky" to that blog in one's memory
    Namun kurasa cukup arif jika meletakkan semua atraktifitas pada kandungan blog (baik secara kualitas maupun kuantitas) dibandingkan keunikan desain yang tidak menunjang aksesbilitas, begitu ya kira-kira :) ?

  2. Comment by Dani Iswara on April 28, 2009 at 21:46:09
    using Firefox 3.0.9 on Gentoo

    Cahya,
    tergantung yg ditawarkan konten yg mana..teks, grafis, animasi, video, podcast, social networking? :)

  3. Comment by nomercy on April 29, 2009 at 19:37:59
    using Firefox 3.0.3 on Linux Mint 6

    tiga pertanyaan yang menarik ...

  4. Comment by nomercy on May 1, 2009 at 15:58:02
    using Firefox 3.0.9 on Linux Mint 6

    mas dani ... kok posting2 sebelumnya gak bisa dibuka ...
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  5. Comment by Dani Iswara on May 1, 2009 at 16:11:27
    using Firefox 3.0.9 on Gentoo

    nomercy,
    itulah yg saya maksud di redesain :)
    sori mas..koneksi memble, jd ngeditnya keputus jg..
    dah bs lg kok..

  6. Comment by thegands on May 3, 2009 at 22:45:28
    using Google Chrome 1.0.154.59 on Windows XP

    Then, how he answer the question number 2? Did he was helped by his brother?

  7. Comment by Dani Iswara on May 4, 2009 at 06:11:59
    using Firefox 3.0.10 on Gentoo

    thegands,
    I don't know his brother's support for daily posting..just let's see his blog, then do some accessibility testing.. :)

  8. Comment by zam.web.id on May 4, 2009 at 19:27:45
    using Firefox 3.0.8 on Windows XP

    baru tau info macam gini :)
    personal branding yg cukup matang untuk seorang dokter

  9. Comment by Dani Iswara on May 4, 2009 at 23:46:17
    using Firefox 3.0.10 on Gentoo

    zam,
    itu syukur ada web designer/developer yg bantuin..tp caranya sptnya berlebihan..entah apakah cara itu bisa diterima di Indonesia..dgn niat jelas-2 utk marketing :)

  10. Comment by poetra on May 6, 2009 at 02:43:49
    using Firefox 3.0 on Windows XP

    Yang pertama, sepertinya sih nggak ya. Gak tau deh kalo ada "regulasi" baru :D

    Yang kedua, selalu menjadi masalah klasik. Kalau memang mau sedikit "dipaksakan", dikasi semacam guideline bagaimana cara menulis konten yang benar, tapi kayaknya bakal sulit kalo nyuruh mempelajari. Jadi, keterlibatan aktifnya harus dari pihak developer.

    Yang ketiga, tergantung kontennya. Mau sesempurna apa pun semantic web-nya, strukturnya, akessibilitasnya, tapi kalo kontennya gak mutu ya sama aja, hihihi. Tapi kalau membantu, mungkin iya :)

  11. Comment by Dani Iswara on May 6, 2009 at 07:49:30
    using Firefox 3.0.10 on Gentoo

    poetra,
    Yang pertama, iya, entah saking 'klasiknya' mungkin.. :)

    Yang kedua, kadang dari DOCTYPE, GUI editor teks, widget, dan penulis/pengelola ngga kompakan (mis. DOCTYPE Strict tapi dipakein ala Transitional dengan inline style)

    Yang ketiga, jd pengen nulis ttg ini.. :) makasi, bang..

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