[thelist] Site check - with a twist
Simon Perry
simon.perry at si-designs.co.uk
Fri Dec 12 05:14:20 CST 2003
Andy Budd wrote:
>
> On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 03:12 AM, Gary McPherson wrote:
>
>> Hey all!
>>
>> This request is a little different from the norm - I'm not asking you
>> to review my own work. I have a friend who's setting up his own small
>> business and asked me to do some backend development for the site
>> he's put together. Anyway, I had a look at what he's done so far
>> and... well, I think I'll let you see for yourselves.
>>
>> Having shared my own views, I feel that he doesn't take my criticism
>> as seriously as he needs to due to us being friends, so what I want
>> is a 2nd (and 3rd, 4th, nth) opinion that I can take back to him, to
>> show that I'm not just being bitchy about what he's done.
>
>
> With most sites that come up for a site check it's easy to give
> constructive criticism because they are mostly good but would benefit
> from some tweaking. In fact in my experience the better the site the
> more constructive feedback you get.
>
> With truly bad sites it's impossible to know where to begin and this
> is definitely the category your friends site falls in to. Basically
> this site does your friend no favours. In fact it would be better for
> them to have no site at all than what they currently have. People are
> increasingly web savvy. They know what is good and professional and
> what is poor and amateurish. They will associate the values and
> quality of your site with the values and quality of your service. If I
> were looking for a "whatever it is your friends site is supposed to
> do" seeing that site would help me out greatly as it would immediately
> remove them from my list of companies under consideration. If their
> site is so unprofessional, I'd imagine there services are as well.
>
> Andy Budd
I would like to second Andy's comments above.
Someone else pointed out that the "database" results [0] were slightly
better presented. Well that is completely undone as the links from the
graphics do not open the corresponding property page! Not that I would
have gone any further after seeing the index page. Or that I could have,
even if I wanted to, without opening the header frame in a new window to
access the links!
A quick google search shows the standard of the competition [1].
Simon
[0] http://www.propertiesuncovered.com/let.html
[2] http://www.spencers-property.co.uk/search/lettings.html
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