Archive for March 28th, 2007

OceanFan - some good, some bad sides

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Oceanfan logoI recently signed up for a deal where I can get paid money to do reviews and posts about different companies. Today I was assigned my first task, which is to review a company concentrating on solar energy and ceiling fans. Since the task is to brand their website, OceanFan.com I think I will concentrate on that (also since my skills on solar energy ain’t that high :D ).

To start off, their logo is really nice. The website then is a bit simple, but it’s easy to find what you are looking for. What surprises me the most is that they are actually using Google Adsense on their website. This means they are constantly recommending other sites instead of their own, which should probably make their customers a bit surprised. It also means if they ever decide to use Google Adsense, they might end up paying for visitors that is already on their website.

What I also noticed, is that the website tries to use the local language to format the price. So when visiting it in IE7 (Swedish), the prices said SKr instead of US$. This is a nice feature, but the idea is to have the prices converted as well, which this site didn’t. That means that I could buy a nice ceiling fan (going for US$79.98 on the website) for 79.98 SKr which roughly is US$10.

The website itself provides good pictures, so you can easily find the products that you are interested in. Most products also hold a short technical description, but myself I would prefer a full PDF of the manual or at least more details about each product.

This post was sponsored by OceanFan.com