Series Update…!
The series is being put on hold for a few days, but check back Monday as we’ll feature a new website that we will evaluate for our users.
Sincerely,
Regency Interactive Corporation
Tags: regency interactive, regency interactive corporationWebsite Redesign: What Is Wrong With USB Media Company?
Hello folks! We’re back with our series on “What Is Wrong With This Website” and today we’re featuring USB Media Company. The support team at Regency Interactive came across this company when we were looking for custom USB jump drives.
Here are a few things that we don’t like about this site:
- The colors are too plain on the site; the color scheme is more like a boring doctor’s office colors rather than a high tech product’s website. Their products come in all different sizes and colors so why can’t their website?
- The company information that they provide you does not give you enough information about them. Who’s to say that this isn’t a company that just drop ships the products to you from a third party company?
- We also think their customers do not like the fact that they cannot order straight from their website. Money spent on online ordering is growing exponentially each day so why would you not provide this option to your customers?
- As a company looking at custom flash drives we were looking for some flash drives at least 8 GB in capacity and theirs seem to only go to 4 GB. Right now you can get flash drives as high as 32 GB as well as 64 GB.
- The last big thing that sticks out to us is they show you what services that they can offer you, but they don’t demonstrate the type of work that they can do you. A portfolio of custom USB jump drives that they have done in the past would be enough for a customer to look past these other flaws that their website has and order from them anyway.
- As far as SEO issues that the website has we found quite a few things there that they could improve such as title tags, their body content, link title tags and so forth.
Stay tuned tomorrow for the latest post in our series!
Tags: regency interactive, regency interactive corporation, web design, web redesign, website analysis, website design, website redesignWebsite Redesign: What Is Wrong With http://www.controlnoise.com/
Today, starts the first post in regards to our “What is Wrong With This Website” series that we will be doing at Regency Interactive. Each day we’ll pick a website that one of our team members came across here recently and we will dissect their website somewhat to point out issues on their website. First up is ControlNoise.com! Recently one of our team members at Regency was looking to soundproof one of their spare rooms so that they could turn it into a studio and came across Control Noise’s website.
Issues We Noticed
At first glance the design issues are very easy to spot. the site looks outdated with their design and it also appears that the site was designed for a display setting over 640 * 480 pixels with default link colors to go along with a boring color scheme. With today’s design methods it’s easy for websites to make their links match the site’s color scheme.
Upon further investigation you can see that the website does not work the same in Firefox as it does in Internet Explorer. You can also see that their logo does not include their company name. You have to scan to the far right to see what their company name is and that’s not good design.
Also, their links suggest that you can “search” amongst their products, but once you click on “Search By Product” all you get on the next page is a list of links for particular products. This does not allow a user to “search” through their products. It also makes their users “click” one extra time than they really need to do on the site. If they listed all of their products on the homepage then a user could find what they need quicker on the site which would help with sales conversions and so forth. The same thing goes for “Search By Application” as well.
Next, we noticed that they have pages within the website that you can only get to from certain pages of the website. This is not good for the users as it will make it harder to find certain pages. Granted, there is a sitemap on the website, but you still should make the site easier to navigate for your users.
Finally, the big turn-off about the site is their color scheme. The color is not very appealing to a user as it’s very boring. Given the choices they offer for fabric choices you would think they would know about color schemes.
These are just a few things we were able to spot on this site that we thought needed to be corrected. Believe it or not, how your website looks to your potential customers will tell them right off the bat if they are going to buy from you or not. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s website!
Tags: usability, web design, web redesign, website design, website redesignWebsite Redesign: What Is Wrong With These Websites?
Regency Interactive is proud to introduce a new series called, “What Is Wrong With These Websites?” where we analyze what is wrong with certain websites that we may come across throughout our normal workday.
Keep in mind that these websites will not belong to our clients and thus we will not divulge everything that may be wrong with these websites. It’s just a series to explain how these websites could be designed/optimized differently so that they could be made into better websites for their users.
Stay tuned for the start of the series starting May, 27, 2008! It should make for a great series for our readers!
Tags: regency interactive, regency interactive corporation, seo, web design, website designBlogging: Does Your Company Know How To Blog? Part Two
In continuation of our Does Your Company Know How To Blog? article from yesterday we’re back to give you some more information on how you can start blogging for your company. Today, we’re going to cover how you can make your blog make money for your company as well as tips for online success.
If you’re just getting started with blogging there are a number of sites out there that can give you tips on how to stay successful with your blogging. One of the major ones out there is CopyBlogger.com (Listed within the Top 30 blogs on Technorati).
- CopyBlogger - CopyBlogger has over 33,000 subscribers and over 100,000 monthly site visitors. The site teaches you how to write in a strategic, persuasive, compelling manner. It also details fascinating opportunities that continue to develop with blogging and other online marketing strategies.
Now on to how you can make money from your blog. Some sites out there that can help you maximize the profit of your blog are Problogger.com (Listed within the Top 25 blogs on Technorati), Shoemoney.com (Listed within the Top 40 blogs on Technorati) and JohnChow.com.
- Problogger.com - Problogger is a blog that helps bloggers to add income streams to their blogs.
- Shoemoney.com - Schoemaker details ways to build upon the Coke Theory (How a company can achieve growth through small degrees of separation between sites, maximizing diversity within a small industry.).
- JohnChow.com - Provides you with proven moneymakers that should make your blog money for your company.
After looking through these websites you should have a good idea on how to make your blog successful and how it can also make you money. Should you require more information on how to set up your blog and so forth feel free to contact us at Regency Interactive!
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