Wedding Bliss

I just finished reading todays Computimes in the NST and they had a full page on tying the knot. I was quite surprised to learn that the boost of tourist numbers came from married couples. The article highlighted that one of the places to benefit online right now is the bridal market. In the article, there were quite a few websites posted and knowing the expectations I normally put, I was looking quite highly toward the URLs provided in the article.

Other than spreading the roses and goodness of the launch with the many services offered, there are a couple of other websites suggested in the article. Thankfully, the next website www.malaysiabrides.com works and it looks pretty good though it’s just a forum. With 91 members (not sure how many are active), this is still better than having a dead website.

Up next we have another local company that has been granted an exclusive mention in the article. They are Casamia Bridal Gallery Sdn Bhd that you could visit at www.de-casamia.com. In the article written, it mentions that the company;

..is another player offering services, gowns and tuxedos, photography, and facial make-up and grooming.

Now, why would you need to include the URL of the company when their website doesn’t even offer any of these services for people to enquire or browse online? If you asked me, this website has blundered worst than the article right now.

Next URL in the article, www.feelwedding.com/honeymoon-packages/. This is one of those websites which would have pointed you from Google or some other search engine. It’s a website filled with links found by people and uploaded to their database. Reason I dislike these websites is because if I clicked it from a search engine, I’d have expected something to solve my query and not ask me to search again. The other thing I find uncomfortable browsing this website, the content looks like big chunks of content sandwich-ed together.

Still on brides, next website quoted in the article is called www.brides-r-us.com. At first glance, this website looks pretty reasonable. However, if you scroll to the bottom I think you might find what I dislike about this website. If you’d rather me tell you; it doesn’t have a usable navigation and you know what’s worst? Its pages contain the many links like you found on FeelWedding. GOSH!

Alas, the last website mentioned in the article didn’t have any problems because it was one of the first few search engines made in Malaysia after Catcha if I’m not mistaken. The website URL is www.cari.com.my/wedding/. I don’t really want to say much for this website but if I have to, I just want to say that “it works!”.

Personally, I think this is one of the few times that Computimes have included unworthy URLs in their article. *sigh*

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