Another day, another mission something new comes in there is something we forget.
We learn something new and forget something, memories are here to cherish and some we forget.Well this is the game of life and life has to roll on...
India a motherland for many and place loved my many and I think there is not particular word to describe it as a whole.
But putting it in simple words I will call it ’’BEAUTIFUL’’.
Starting with the portal indya.com
A brand new day and a new brand is released I open up my newspaper to see a 2 page full ad in th Time of India Paper.
Can’t remember those pictures but the name indya.com clearly left a mark on the mind.Not only mine but everybody.
As many did I too grabbed up my chair dialed my way out and logged in to check out this brand new portal.
But wait....This was a portal worth enough to spend 2 page AD worth lakhs.Oh Hell what a waste of money.
But as day go on and there are changes going on in this world, this portal also had something to change.
They changed their design and the navigation style.Well this is not a sign on a wise web master and frequent design changes are not good.I told them but then who listens up.
I changed on and thought of going down and deep into the portal and put my search glasses on to just find out why should anyone visit this portal named indya.com.
The only on reason found out only suiting for the web master was that I found that this was there gateway to get some cool design and navigation.
Channels, Content, section....name them anything
Well indya.com seem to have a lot of channels or lets call it section and some of them are worth visiting like eform section , but many section and just hosted up by joining other sites , like the cricket section etc...
So here is one minus point about the section of indya.com.A section to check out is the music section and the cinemaa section which seem to have quite some useful information about them.
Well they host up content in this section and if you are lucky you might win something.
Little left....no right...adjust the angle
Well looking at this portal from all the angle, I mean the award part of it, I think this portal does not really deserve a awards.
I keep the making of banner part aside when I say this.As there banner are really cool, the one which they have made up for there site.That rocks!!.
Well the thing that matter for a site to deserve award is good design, neat navigation and good customer support.
Lets check all this point and discuss over a cup of bytes...
Design of time is under constant changes and when you think you are familiar with the design, there’s a change.
But the design are all good.But the question is ’’does design really matter’’ ?? Well everyone has different opinion and everyone has his own strike.
Navigation of the site is really simple and the site seems very easy to navigate as the top navigation bars really helps you to navigate through different pages.
But the starting or the index page always has a different navigation style.So let put the navigation in the 50-50 category.
Customers support are they good...???
Well they seem to be, when you send them a feedback they do have a quick response(after one day that is), and talking of rest of the part.I have still not tried it.
Well they do deserve 25% mark up.
Search...Search...Dog wake up...
Well indya.com has a search engine, really check it out it is listed under the section category.
Well talking about searching at indya.com, it’s the same you search on indya.com or at google.com you get the same results.
But I prefer to search at google for the speed and good result with neat results.So why search at indya.com instead..hai koie jawaab(have a answer).
Your are watching Star TV
Recently the Star TV india has tied up with indya.com to feature some part of their site and host it up in the near future.
E-mailing your way out?Wait!!!
indya.com has hosted up their email service where people can get their own yourname@indya.com email address.
But I find no reason to host my email address at indya.com and I feel no one should.The common drawback are no pop3 facility, slow server and many other...
They have their email section not made by themselves but taken their code from commtouch.indiatimes also was tied up with commtouch to host their email back before the new version.
Slow email service and many other such thing make one not to choose their service.I would advice you to try indiainfo.com either if you are looking to host your email on a Indian site.
Looking to chat...have a try with them
Bored with the chat ads of indya.com on TV.Well if yes, do log on and try their chat.They have some good features, but again speed does matter.But their chat room are decent one with someone always looking at your text and will put you out if using bad words.
Netiquette do matter guys...Well they are well on this stuff.
Looking for speed??Stop here..keep waiting
I was really bored by the whole load up time and sent them feedback to improve their speed and their reply was that they are trying to do this and have increased their speed in Europe and America.
Well indya.com so they should first focus on improving their speed in India right.
Conclusion
Had a hard time writing on this portal named indya.com which say on putting the whole world in one portal.With FAQ’s printed and other stuff neatly arranged for beginners and advanced user this site had it all.
Directories listed and other stuff needed for net surfers, this site definetly lacked two thing speed and customers support.Matters printed were all good and the section were little easy to navigate.
Recently tied up with netvarsity.com and vindia.com this site think of putting it’s mark in the minds of youth.But the question still remains is that will they be able to??
Recently interviewed a team unit of indya.com said that they might not be able to continue this site for not more than 3 years.
So the question now comes to the people side, that should they visit this site or not?
Beginners should get their fundas clear by checking their netfunda section and other section might be visited if you have time or else you can pick some other site which focuses on the topic you want.
The one thing I like is their NEWS channel, which is constantly updated.
Their color combination is also very bad and bright colours really make the eye balls small.