It's not enough just to have a website. People judge your professionalism by your website. How's your website doin'? To decide if you need a makeover, take this quiz to see.

• How does your website compare to your competitors?
• How does it compare to Fortune 500 sites?
• Is the design simple AND elegant?
• Does the site use a single navigation plan throughout?
• Do people always know where they are and how to get where they want to go without AAA?
• Can you get there from here or do you have to go somewhere else first?
• Are the sections cleverly named or are they understandable by the unhip?
• Could your Grandma navigate your site?
• Do the pages load quickly or are you courteous enough to leave your customers enough time to change their mind and go to your competitor?
• Does all pages fit on small laptop monitors without scrolling left and right?
• Does the site work with Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL, WebTV, and Opera on Windows, Mac, and Linux? Have you tested it on all these with a 56k modem operating at 40k? Really? Honestly?
• Does the site reinforce your brand, your colors, your message, and sell your product or service?
• Is your site integrated with your other marketing plans?
• Can people tell what makes you better than your competition?
• Who controls your website? Marketing? PR? Sales? Please don't say the techies control your site.
• Can your text be shortened and simplified?
• Are there many pages that are all gray text?
• Is your url and email on EVERY letterhead, brochure, on the side of your trucks, on every piece of printed material, and tattooed on your forehead?
• Have you asked strangers to rate your site, or is your wife your toughest critic?
• Do you have a simple clear privacy policy and do you stick to it?
• Can customers find your telephone and fax numbers easily, or is it buried because customers just get in the way of doing your paperwork?
• Are you using really kewl fonts or boring universal fonts that everyone can view?
• Can people who need reading glasses read your page a foot away from the monitor or do they get nose grease on your pages?
• Have you remembered to put music in the background so your site gets the attention of everybody in the building?
• Is the content current, or is the latest news item announcing a sale that ended last week?
• Did you use all the hottest new technologies to show off your technical expertise, or have you used just those necessary?
• Do all the links to other websites work?
• Do grammar and spelling errors make you look foolish?

So how did you do?

Is it time for a makeover?

Not to fear, unlike a bad haircut, you CAN fix a bad website.