Thursday, November 3, 2011

ThinkDigit - Review

Wesbite: http://www.thinkdigit.com

Category: Information Technology
What are they into: IT Magazine
Description: Site will provide brief information about Indian IT news

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Customer Care or Contact Number: Not Specified

Likes about the website:

1) Tech news in Indian context
2) Reviews in Indian Context
3)  Few downloads

-1's about the website:

1) First page is made crowded with ads
2) News updates are little outdated

Ratings: 6

Can you find it googling (Search Tags) : Digit, ThinkDigit

Recommended by FindReviews? Yes

Conclusion: Good website for Indian Tech News

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Review of Poovar Islandresort website

Wesbite: http://www.poovarislandresort.com

Category: Kerala Tourism, Kerala Ayurveda,Kerala Beaches, Poovar Island Resort

What are they into:
According to the website, Poovar island is an ayurvedic resort situated at the southern end of Kerala. Beaches in Kerala is awesome and relaxing. Kerala ayurvedic massage is well known across India and abroad.

Description:

Poovar resort is the an remote getaway location for a quiet holiday in spectacular natural surroundings. You can choose between floating cottages and land cottages for accommodation and enjoy a boat cruise along the palm-fringed shores of bewitching backwaters.

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Customer Care or Contact Number:
+91 471 2573649, +91 471 2212068


Contact eMail:
reservations@poovarislandresort.com

Review:

Testing enviroment is 1 Mbps connection, laptop with windows home premium, intel i5 and 4 GB ram.

http://www.poovarislandresort.com loaded pretty fast. First page contains flash presentation of Poovar and the resort.

Reservation was displayed with very little important, the creator seems to be concentrating on the photos, flash display and videos. Skype image seems without much use. Flash demo is shown is strange texture, but more to do with personal choice.

Strange aspect about Home button is it takes to another website which is Parent company(Hotel) website. This is the first I experienced such an implementation. Videos demonstrated a video of the resort which gives a fair idea about the hotel. Image Gallery implementation is pathetic, so is ebook. It should have displayed as brochure, with pdf file loading for ever

Menu dropdowns are pretty impressive but the contact us was displaying a huge picture of a call center executive from abroad.

Reservation review:

Reservation display was to get a quote, it was just a mailing feature enabled in it. Online booking is not possible.

Review with another hotel in Poovar:

I was comparing Poovar resort with http://www.isoladicocco.com, loading time was pathetic with the later. Each pictures took ages to load, but they had online reservation enabled.

Prices are little cheapear in Poovar resort, but Isoladicocco might have some extra advantages which i cant find out through website review.

Five Likes about the website:
1) Nice pictures
2) Though video is not professional it gave a good view about the resort
3) News letter option
4) Loading of flash was shown properly.
Only fourlikes about this website

Five -1's about the website:

1) No online reservation
2) Image like skype was given idle
3) Home was showing an option of the parent website
4) ImageGallery implementation could be little more better
5) Unrelated images like sports was showing a woman praying(yoga) and in boat ride another image
+1
6) Images used for email ids, we cannot copy it to send a mail

Ratings

Look and feel:                  6                      Ease of use: 5
Availability of Content:   6                      Is Links working: 9
Visible bugs:        NIL                             Customer Service Response: 7

Overall rating: 6

Can you find it googling (Search Tags): Poovar, Poovar resort,

Recommended by FindReviews?: You can try to see if those things in the photographs are really available. According to me, based on the implementation of the website it could be a just above average experience.

Conclusion:

Websites are your online identity, you need to provide proper care while building it. That is how the customers far away from corners of the world know you. So for the same reason I could rate this website just above average.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Review Flipkart.com

Wesbite: http://www.flipkart.com

Category: Indian Online Shopping Website

What are they into:
Online shopping website in India for Books, Mobiles , Mobiles , Computers, Cameras, Games ,Movies ,Music, Mp3 Players , Personal Health care and Home appliances

Description :
Flipkart.com is an online website which sells several categories of products online. They have a 24x7 customer service and they offer safe and secure shopping with 30 days money back guarantee.

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Customer Care or Contact Number:
Customer care number of Flipkart.com :(080) 4352 6600

Contact eMail:
Customer care email id of Flipkart.com : cs@flipkart.com

Review:

Page Review:
To start with the review of the website, I used Internet Explorer 9 with 1 mbps connection. The review enviroment was windows 7 Home premium and a laptop with i5 processor and 4GB ram.

Loading time is pretty fast and the front page was not cluttered as compared to other shopping sites. Drop drown menu contains all the list of products which they were selling. So it gave rest of the page a neat appearance.

Top selling products are available in the main page itself. I checked the time taken to move a particular product home page, it was equally fast when compared to other websites. Popular brands with pictures could have helped a new user to get an idea, but they are available in the left so user can select it.

Dropdown list which shows the categories and brands where more decent, but it is not very convienient for a new user to imagine it would be available there.

Finding Canon EOS 550D camera in flipkart.com when compared to other website (indiaplaza.in):

I could notice Camera section in both website, but flipkart was little more elegant since in indiaplaza I felt the details are more cluttered and with lot of colors.

Flipkart had only the details of the camera in its camera home page which attracted me as a normal user. People would definitely like to buy its accessories while looking for a camera not a photoframe, I guess indiaplaza should improve in it.

I had to select canon, I found it in right side of the flipkart camera page, but for indiaplaza I had to click twice. But later I found the brands were given down the page which i need to scroll. Pictures of the brands will give a good information to a beginner.

I am not commenting about the navigation since I found this camera in front page of flipkart but that could be by chance or random display.

Image was bigger in flipkart with different views. It had a good summary and review video in it from youtube. Flipkart contains reviews as well and accessory list was better than indiaplaza though both their prices were same.

Both were offering freeshipping and add to cart in that page it self.

Flipcart has given recommendations while indiaplaza gave other canon camera list. Both had its plus points

One good thing I found in Indiaplaza is the "Tip or information about DSLR" which was nice. A person who is not a pro would find this input effective

Price Review:

Both the website had same price, but number accessories are more in flipKart
Cash on delivery is a major attraction in flipKart

Adding to cart:

Flipkart: Click "Buy it now" >>  Wait for Checkout page>>

Add email login > Shipping Address > select Payment option
You can as well create a login account with flipkart.com

IndiaPlaza:

Indiaplaza it is mandtory to register

Five Likes about the website:

1) Pages are neatly designed and detailed are not cluttered
2) Standard colors and templates used which will give a relaxed browsing
3) Adding to cart doesnt required an account
4) Relevant products are shown in each page
5) Information is available right in front, no need to search for it

Five -1's about the website

1) Brand images would have helped
2) Flipkart recommendations would have helped
3) Percentage of savings for each item would have helped
4) There is no option to compare with another product
5) They should highlight there promotions like 30 days replacement in prominent places in front page

Ratings
Look and feel: 7                                  Ease of use: 8
Availability of Content: 7                   Is Links working: 9
Visible bugs: Nil                              

Customer Service : (Query was regarding Samsung Galaxy SII)

Response Time: 6
Knowledge on Product: 7
Knowledge on website: 7
Courtesy: 7
Language Fluency: 5


Overall rating : 7.5

Can you find it googling (Search Tags) :

General terms: No, should google FlipKart

Recommended by FindReviews? :
Flipkart is selling the products directly to the customer, in that way they are more reliable than ebay and other shopping sites. But choice need to be yours. FindReview is not responsible for any damages from flipkart and is not directly or indirectly associated with flipkart.

Conclusion:

Great Site, Easy access you can definitely give a try

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Review : Kollemcodedevi.com

Website Name: http://www.kollemcodedevi.com/

Category: Spiritual, Temple

Description:
This website is owned by Kollemcode devaswom. It contains the history and heritage of Kollemcode devi temple. It gives a visitor an overall picture of the temple. Most of the links are still under construction and I am sure that after the full fledged launch of the website the popularity and usage of the website will be increased.

Good because:

  • Excellent graphics and Image usage.
  • Introduction song will give a spiritual image to the website

Should improve because:

  • Pages are still under construction.
  • Flash website is not yet launched.
  • Offering details are limited.
  • Spelling mistake and improper usage of grammar.

Look n Feel Rating: 6


Easiness to Use: 7

Overall Rating: 6.5

Do I recommend: I do recommend the website because of its simplicity and it has most of the details of the temple and other aspect around the temple