Opinion

[maninderwalia]

Hi! Please give your comments i.e. site design, navigation, time in loading of pages, content, layout and most importantly fitability for search engines for the following website
www.cgronline.com
Look in my opinion its attractive to the viewer who reaches here and able to download the whole page but according to me the graphics are too much and its not suitable specially for spider based engines.
In my opinion this site is very attractiveand informative but rubbish for search engines.
Please give your comments!

[Hasenfefer]

Yes it's a little too graphicy based for SEs IMO but i do like the design. I'm not fond of all the animated graphics along the right hand side. I'm also on a T-1 so it's hard to comment about load time.

[Blue]

Way too much blinking stuff and the text was hard to read.

[MazY]

Ready?

Colour - Really nice use of colour that blends well with the theme of the site.

No hover text over the links. With that many links it would have been nice to get an indication on what I was about to click.

Load time - Unrealitically slow over a dial-up. Almost 50 seconds to load the home page.

Images - Excellent use of images. Can't fault it, from a design perspective and boy am I fussy!

Images didn't seem to have any alt-tags though?

I didn't really mind the flashing graphics but didn't really feel they added anything.

Overall, from a search engine perspective I don't think it will do that well. But, from a design perspective, I would happily give it an 8/10!

[maninderwalia]

Thanks Mazy and all others for your opinion.

[sanity]

Very nice design and quick to load from here too. I'm on a 128k ISDN.

Maybe if you dropped the big graphic from the homepahe you could use the space for more copy which could help make it more spider friendly.

One suggestion: you're banners that say to advertise with you are very similar to the site design and may be overlooked by potential advertisers. I would make them look completely different as no advertiser is going to have their ads look like the site.

Sophie

[prebot]

HI,

Load time (on 3/18) with dial-up not bad. I Like it!

The only I didn't like about it was the "advertise with us banners"; if required they should click-through to the rate card.

[prebot]

what the heck was that?

I was trying to say "on 3 / 18 / 2002" the load time was good! Don't know where the smilies came from. Sorry!