Archive for October, 2008

Corporate Reimbursement Services, Inc. (CRS) Under Review

The following is a paid review.

If your company has lots of mobile employees it’s better for you to have all the information necessary to make a good cost-effective decision. CRS Inc. comes to the help of the manager, by providing all the means of making a right decision with the help of their program.
The design of the site is simple, yet practical. They used a intuitive top drop down menu to explore the site.  Every aspect of their Car allowance program is explained and outlined. They present the key benefits of their program for the employer as well as the driver. That way the potential customer can get a very good idea of what they can do for your business.
The website has rendered without any errors in all major web browsers. The site loads pretty fast and the images are well optimized. Even though the site is well organized and is optimized, I can see that this site was not designed recently. Why ? Well , because of 2 things :
1. The site does not use CSS for the layout. CSS has been used only for a few formatting options of the page and for the drop down menu. The web site was entirely constructed used tables. Which, coming from a Web2.0 point of  view is not good.
2. The site is not (X)HTML and CSS validated. The validation output has produced : 44 Errors, 15 warning(s) for the HTML validation and 19 Errors, 140 warning(s) for the CSS validation.
I would like to suggest to the people of Corporate Reimbursement Services to think of redesign or at least some more work done on the validation. A web site can be a pretty good business card. And their web site represents them on the internet and it should respect the W3C standards.

Online Casino Guide

The following is a paid review.

All lot of people are into online games and gambling. While looking for gambling resources I always try to find clean , easy to use sites. This is very important to me. A web site that is full of banners and has little to none content to help me play get blacklisted immediately. So, when I find something interesting I am very happy.

Casino.de is such a site. A site that made me happy. I am not a german speaker but the design of the site kind of made me feel warm. From a web designers perspective I mean. It has a sleek, intuitive design that is very easy to use. To give it a chance I used google translate to look at those Poker Resources. I really loved their Video Poker , Blackjack and Roulette Trainer. Simple, clean and easy to use.

Although they do have banners to promote some programs, the layout they have chosen for them makes it easy to read through the site, get all the info you need to get better and if you decide to do us, enroll in one of the programs supported by them.

A very interesting section they have is “Optische Spielanleitungen”. This translates to an easily understandable “Visual Instructions”. What they have done is create some simple flash movies for the beginners. That way you don’t loose interest in playing Poker because you have to read too many pages or rules. Everything is played and a narrator gives you instructions. Didn’t understand something? Not a problem, just go back.

This is a good site for begginers and advanced players all together. Recommended.