TechRepublic.com Website Design Review

ARTICLE SNIPPET - Providing Great Content and Community, TechRepublic is a Haven for IT Professionals

If "shop talk" is the next best thing to "pillow talk", the computer geeks of the world have an online paradise at TechRepublic.

The site's slogan, "Real World. Real Time. Real IT", doesn't begin to fully describe the quantity and quality of content offered here. TechRepublic provides an astounding variety of information, tools, and services created by IT professionals, for other IT professions, that help members do their jobs well.

TechRepublic is a Mequoda Hybrid Website masquerading as a membership website. Almost everything on this site is free in return for providing your email address and a little additional personal information. Access to a very few articles requires an upgraded membership in TechProGuild. After a free seven-day trial, membership in TechProGuild is $9.95 monthly (recurring billing option) or $89 annually.

TechRepublic is a property of CNET Networks, a global media company that publishes some of the best known sites on the web, targeting passionate audiences through a combination of world-class content and technology infrastructure. Its brands include Builder.com, GameSpot, mySimon, Search.com, Silicon.com, TV.com, MP3.com, BNET, ZDNet, Release 1.0 and Webshots.

TechRepublic's members, representing all segments of the IT industry, turn to TechRepublic for IT decision support and professional advice organized by job function or topic. CNET says nearly four million IT professionals depend on TechRepublic to get their jobs done. With an audience that large, TechRepublic is obviously doing something right.

Here's how it scores as measured against the 14 Mequoda Website Design Guidelines.

• Learn how we might design the homepage a little differently to highlight its strategic intent - page 8
• Understand the relationship building techniques used on this site and how you could replicate them on your own site - page 11
• Discover the one disappointment in this site's overall design - page 16
• Learn how this site balances its look and feel with its business needs - page 19
• Discover how this site upholds its parent company's tradition of branding and graphics - page 24

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