Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Local Services at your doorstep

ServeMeHere is a web site providing a very valuable free local service for the community to meet professionals in different fields at the location and time convenient to the requested person. The site provides a much needed service, which would be a very time consuming and uneasy task if the clients had to find the contact information of the professionals and contact themselves.
Online appointment scheduling to small business is one of the key services provided by the web site. This serves the general community and the small businessmen in scheduling the meetings and services. The key features of this service can be classified as follows.
A form to select a category of small businesses using the country, distance and the service keywords.
Display a short profile of the small businessman in the main page for easy viewing including the service name, price of the service, meeting place, location of the business, service description, the marks the businessmen got from the clients and an easy link to make an appointment with him
A video tutorial about the web site and the usage.

When the client chooses the small businessman he needs to contact for getting service, he can simply go to the main appointment page. In the main appointment page, client can choose the appointment date. Then the web site will automatically select the available times of the small businessman and the locations possible. The client can simply book appointment online and let the businessman supply his service. When submitting the request, the client should supply his details for the businessman to contact him.
This kind of service is very easy for the client when choosing these small businessmen for services. At this web site, the client should not have any prior personal contacts with the businessmen or should know any locations that he can meet them. With the expense of only a few key presses, he can book a very good businessman at a convenient place and time.
The designers of the web site have taken a lot of time and effort for making this kind of web site. With the appearance and the orientation of the site, it can be guessed that they wanted to make it as light and simple as possible. They have actually achieved it very well. But at the same time, the idea of a complete and highly featured site has gone out of it. At a single glance, web site seems like a simple HTML page. With the current trends in web pages design, it may be more appropriate to change the appearance of the site to a more complex one.
Also the browsing of the services doesn’t seem to be intelligent enough. It will be convenient if more intelligent algorithms used for this purpose to identify small spelling mistakes etc. and obtain better results.
Finally, it would be more convenient for the clients to get a good idea about the businessmen if their profile could be customized by themselves (within the given space). While this would certainly increase the complexity and the size of the pages, it is highly recommended.

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