Feb 15 2008
Modern Line Furniture
Is your house trendy? Do you feel the need to change the aspect of the walls, but not their color. Do you want your friends to go like: “hey, give me your decorator’s name and phone, please, I love what they did here with your living room”. But hey, you could spend less and find what you’re looking for online. Then, the reply will be, or at least it was for me: “I just got a modern sofa from modernlinefurniture.com”.
All right, all right, this was not my case as I am not in the US, but a close friend of mine sent me some screens with his new waiting room at the office, and he bought some sofas from the above mentioned website. He was delighted that they has some unique and exclusive models, that they shipped their products all over US, including his office and so on.
What I did was just to check it out for some ideas, and I decided I should review their website a bit (I am owner of the site review tool at Web International Awards afterall, aren’t I?). So what was the first thing I did when I decided on reviewing the site?
Oh well, refresh and Command key + U, which means view source on macs. And I was not satisfied on the outcome. They use HTML tables, not XHTML, so this means poor SEO, their CSS is right in the HTML, not a separate file and the list goes on.
Then the text sections of the site are not well organized, they have no space around paragraphs, therefor it could get hard to read their text information.
Yes, I must say that the website is poorly developed, and doesn’t have a concept. It could also get confusing as their website’s icon is the Yahoo logo. Is that legal, as I am not sure. They also have some ugly text banners next to the beautiful pieces of furniture, which is not very good. You would say that it should contrast, and make the furniture look even bette, but this is not the case.
They have the simple, well known and used navigation, left bar on the left. The items are displayed on the right as you would see web templates, but they do not have no fancy preview visualization options.
The only good thing is that they have tons of pieces, and this gets you carried away. And this actually sells. You do not even realize how many items you get to put in your basket until you check out.
So, bottom line, once again one of those websites that sells but looks awful.
I give it a 6/10 overall.
