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The Best And The Worst
By Jesse | November 9, 2007 |
I did a SkypeCast about cigars last night and didn’t have time to write up a review of a Cigar Manufacturer’s Website, so I’m taking the lazy way out.
Who do you think has the best website and who has the worst?
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November 9th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
RockyPatel.com and I will tell you why.
Everything is darn BIG! The text sizes are bigger than they should be and the graphics look too pixelated. Almost they the developer took a small graphic and resized it.
RETAILERS PAGE: click on state, then on the info icon and the next page you go to is completely white and you lose all navigation and look and feel.
EVENTS: Look at the calendar and click on a day with a colored box around it. The window that pops up has a close button that is not clean looking.
ABOUT: The text is stretched and flatten. Hard to read and you can not copy it as it is an image.
PRODUCTS: Click on a small image and you get a bigger image with details.
The whole site is all images. That means to a search engine, it sees nothing. No meta tags, nothing. From what I can tell it was built in photoshop, then cut up and saved as html.
To be fair, I did bid on this project and lost, however, my comments would be the same even if I did not bid on it. My only goal with these comments is to point out some things that should be improved and should not be on a professional grade site.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Justin, I have to agree with you. I haven’t been impressed with the new site design at all. Many of the cigar companies treat their websites too much like a static billboard.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
From what I was told, the person who developed this had started some fan site and already had something done. The sad part is they have gone through a few companies and have not had good luck. I am trying to reach to out to the companies that have sites that need some attention and help them understand their site is an extension of their brand. They would not put out a cigar with a horrible band or packaging, so why do that to your site?