Know-How Exchange : Website Critique

Hello Suketu,

I've looked at your website and have several suggestions for you. You need to have someone who knows English well to write your content. When I read through your pages I can't make sense as to what your offering is or what you're trying to say. There are some off shore companies we use to write content and they do a great job.

Secondly, you have tiny text at the bottom of each page. Google will penalize you for tiny text and if you can't see the verbiage such as the yellow pages at the bottom then you will get penalized for that as well.

Finally, you have created a flash website. Google can not read flash and you will have a hard time trying to rank your website organically. You can stuff content behind flash but google will read it as one long document. This again will make it hard for you to rank your website. Flash website our nice and you can have flash on website but you have to have content that search engines can read.

Good Luck

Make the sound OFF by default (or turn it off by default after the first few seconds).

As David mentioned, a Flash website is problematic, both for search engines and for those with vision problems.

Your cute navigation system is hard to use (especially quickly).

The icons on the bottom on the page are hard to decipher. A (popup) tool tip would be helpful.

I'm afraid I'm going to add to the bashing you're getting.

It's pretty for the web designer, but hopeless for the user.

It's nearly impossible to find the content.

When I look at the furniture I have no idea what I'm looking at, or why I should hire your company.

Do you sell the furniture directly to consumers or sell to professional designers? I can't tell.

Turn the sound off.

One positive thing (so this isn't all bad): the furniture is beautiful.

Make the flash optional or remove it.

The icons are really hard to see.

Hire a marketing writer who is fluent in English.

Could be good as a presentation, however it's hard to "catch" the right section when you roll over the pages... As a web project it's very bad. Not bad looking, but practically unfindable, unsearchable, uncrawlable. Bad SEO.