Relevancy. It’s something that drives the search engine industry in almost every aspect. From providing quality search results to contextual advertising, relevancy is crucial to any search engine’s success. The question is how do you define relevancy? More importantly, how do search engines define relevancy?

I’ve heard this already described as a ‘character blog’: Podcasting is hot. But it just got hotter. Paris Hilton invites you to join her on “The Paris Hilton Podcast — Countdown to House of Wax,” beginning on April 29.

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When you begin your search for the right design or media house, start out by knowing what you want and like. If you visit the web site of a design firm and all of their projects look the same plus it’s a look you don’t like, chances are they’re not a good match for you! Even if you like their look, do you really want a web site or Ad that is less memorable and doesn’t stand out because it looks exactly like any number of others?

Whether selling through an agent or FSBO (for sale by owner), open houses need careful planning.

My first impression of the Crawford House Collectibles website was of a boring homepage. If I were in the market to buy collectibles, I would probably back out of the site and look elsewhere.

Overall, the site design is unpleasant to the eyes. The background is nice, and not too distracting, but is quickly overshadowed by the use of red and blue on top of it. This is a bad choice of color schemes. Look away from the site, and then look back, and see how long it takes your eyes to focus on the red print. Blue is historically a link color, and can be a distraction when used in the manner that this site uses it. I pick on reds and blues, because my company uses that color scheme, and wanted the intranet to be like this too, so I had a heck of a time making it work together. (See screenshot of my corporate intranet’s self help section which is all data driven using an SQL backend, your comments back are always welcome. You will notice the manner by which white space is used to separate the reds and blues).

Ouch. Where do I start…

1. Home page – ugly. The “Control Panel” uses a “techie” style that is so out of keeping with the product line its almost funny (but it ain’t!). Meanwhile the text is strictly html 101. The mottled background is both distracting and unappealing. A total disaster. No images. No specials. Nothing that would make me want to go another click further.

Here are a few tips to make the site in question less forgettable :

I have included two of my own redesigns of Crawford House Collectibles in my review.
http://jetstream-technologies.com/crawford.html and http://jetstream-technologies.com/crawtest.html

My name is Randy Justason and I have been involved in the online marketing business for only a short while, therefore you may view the following review in light of that.

When Crawford House Collectibles noted they needed some help in developing their web site they were being very honest with the rest of us. There is nothing on this web site that would entice me to go beyond the Home Page.