3 user content driven websites.

These are my evaluations on three websites which run on content added by the users.
Ratemyink.com
Rate my ink is a website based completely around user added content. There are many other websites which are like this one where predominately you are rating something part of a person or something of theirs. I have used rate my ink a few times to look for any good tattoo designs to build on for my own. The website itself is very very basic looking and not exactly smooth around the edges. There are not many options for the user to keep them interested. You can become a member but all that does is make it so you can view tattoos that are rated as being explicit. Apart from these there are top and bottom ten and a few other links. My opinion of the website is that it is useful to the user but it doesn’t have much to it, especially design wise to keep the user coming back very often.
Blogger
I thought as this website which we have to use to post is all to do with user added content I would evaluate it. Straight off the welcome page is far better than rate my ink. It’s quite a simple design, but very well done with neutral colours. Once you log in it’s more of the same with the nice simplistic layout and design. This makes it very easy to navigate, and never takes very long to find what you want, as all of the buttons are highlighted in blue against the brown background. Because of it looking so nice and being so simple to use from the start, it is a website you end up coming back and using very often, which has got to be one of the main things you aim for when designing a website.
911 Tabs
I have used this website quite a few times to find drum tabs but I know quite a lot of other people who use it for guitar, bass and piano. All of the tabs are added by users for others to try out and alter if they think they’re wrong. There isn’t that much to the website which keeps it simple, however it is still nice to look at and doesn’t look cheaply made like ratemyink. The whole site is very logically set out and therefore easy to use. Over all I very much like the design, and it shows that the designers have thought a lot about how to keep it very simple but classy enough to make you want to go back to this site and not bother finding another tab site.