Back in 2010 (yes, 2 years ago), Rama had said that he thought that the sites such as Karir.com and Indonetwork.co.id are the example of conservative, not modern website but can keep on making money. I don’t know how both website looked like at that time but seeing from their current look, I think both websites’ design is similar with the web design at the beginning of the internet.
But both websites are proven to be able to survive, maintaining the design but still making profit. But what if other website appears with similar business plan but better design? I will not talk about it here. I will only talk about Indonetwork having a competition with similar business but with a –in my opinion- better design, IndoTrading.
IndoTrading website’s design is arguably look a like IndoNetwork’s. At the top, both sites display various “Company” and “Product” tabs and there’s a search facility based on province under it. At the left column, both display list of company categories. Upper right displays login form and in the middle displays some lists of companies and products. It’s difficult not to say that IndoTrading is inspired by IndoNetwork. The difference is IndoTrading comes a bit more modern by using red color and changing image slider.
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