WaysTo.org looks quite nice, but still a bit bare, especially to those who recognize that it is actually a ready made theme with modified colors. There is no logo, just a plain title on top so aside from the colors there really isn't much that is original about the design, at least compared to other sites who may use the same theme. Nevertheless, the theme is a decent choice as it is fairly pleasant and presents a content in a relatively neat and clean way.

The good thing is that the homepage presents articles with nice image thumbnails. The bad news is that this doesn't continue on further pages listing articles, for some reason. For the articles presented on the homepage there is a thumbnail near the title even on article pages and for others there isn't. So it seems like the thumbnails are intentionally added to articles chosen for display on the homepage. Anyway, it's not a big deal of course, just an observation, given that these images add positively to the overall look and feel of the site.

Since I've already reviewed sites based on this theme I can make some of the same observations pertaining to details of the theme I already made before. Namely the cutting off of the teaser texts, background color of the top sidebar ad clashing with the gray gradient in the background, top teaser boxes on the homepages touching the top edge of the header and the text style of the ads within content not being adapted to the content (they're default).

Additionally, content pages actually have whole of three square ad boxes in them in addition to the one in the sidebar. I'm not sure if this is even allowed by google policy, but it certainly seems excessive. A lot of the times one of these boxes is empty as apparently there aren't enough ads to display for available content. I think if there's an ad overkill, this just must be it.

Design Rating: 7/10

Focus:

While short and easy to remember the name of the site isn't necessarily quite clear and actually sounds a bit strange, at first at least.. The titles of articles however make it clear and kinda save the day there. Like some previously reviewed sites of this type the purpose is mostly conveyed by the titles of the actual articles as they follow exactly the same form. This also reinforces its focus. Even if the site talks about "ways to" do a whole lot of mutually unrelated things it doesn't matter because the site's focus is to provide information about "ways to" do something, not on any particular "something".

As usual, I never think it would be a bad idea to add some marketing info to it such as an about page. That always helps establish a kind of connection with the user so the site doesn't feel like just a dry repository of information. And that's the story.

Focus Rating: 9/10

Content:

My initial expectation was that the content of this site might be something like typical tutorials or "how to's". That's how I've read the "ways to" concept initially. However, sampling some articles the title makes much more sense, that is, the articles really show multiple ways of doing some things and aren't just normal "how to's". This actually makes this quite a valuable resource mostly because I think articles explaining multiple ways to do a single thing aren't as common as typical tutorials. Most that comes to mind are occasional list type articles (X ways to do X) published by some blogs and online magazines.

This actually brings me to a marketing idea for the site, albeit it may seem corny. Some articles could actually use this list format to gain some more attraction potential. For example the article about ways to raise money could be titled "5 Ways to Raise Money" and the suggestions numbered. There would need to be another way shown for it to add up to a round number of 5.

Anyway, such as they are the articles are fairly brief and start with a short, but engaging introduction that affirms the reader's confidence in finding what they're looking for in the article. That said, there's a whole of 88 of such articles so the site's content truly covers many ways to do many things. Not bad.

Content Rating: 10/10