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Chances are that most people don’t wonder too much about the business of packaging fulfillment, packaging solutions and designs, even though our lives are touched by these basic business functions every single day. The Heritage Pioneer Corporate Group’s blog and website is an absolutely outstanding example of how business-to-business websites can have attractive web presences that avoid feeling “corporate” and boring.

Instead this site does a great job in getting people excited about sustainable packaging for instance, incorporating biodegradable and recycled packaging for almost anything you would need to have shipped anywhere.

The website features an engaging, informative Flash presentation on the home page that immediately makes a visitor aware of the different services or solutions offered by hpcorporategroup.com, and then efficiently directs the site user to one of four categories of information as to the company’s brand, as well as ways to immediately get in touch with a specialist who can help with moving and storage, order fulfillment or packaging solutions.

One element of this attractive site that is example of a feature we’re seeing more and more on business websites is the link from the front page to a blog area where customers and potential customers alike can be notified as to updates either in the company’s business or new developments in packaging fulfillment and solutions and design.

This blogging element has become a fixture in websites that require a dynamic, constantly changing area that can be easily updated. For both the quality of their site and the apparent professionalism of their packaging business, Heritage Pioneer corporate group gets high marks from me.
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For a weblog that is basically made of all links, this guys has a really good site. He finds some of the best links out there and posts just a small comment about each one making it that much more enjoyable. Not much more to the site other than links to other sites.Off on a tangent

This girl has a good site. Updates are really often which is always a nice thing. The site itself is designed really nice and clean which I liked. She decided that she wants to do her own ratings and what not have you. She gives all people fruit. This is very original, and she is definitely making fun of the to quote her “Any 13 year old with Photoshop award”. Good site with ease of use.Jocelyn’s Page

Well while going through the site I found two mentions of the weblog review. The first one said that he was waiting for his review and the second one said:

i signed up for this weblog review today, so i better get some type of a good one or i will hunt down the little fucker and well…..um…..thank him?



So the dilemma has begun. Do I or do I not give this guy a good review. Do I give him a good ranking? What to do…



Lets start with the design. There is this site that I reviewed not too long ago called ackpth that looks very similar in design. both sites just use black and white and gray. I do like the two column layout of this site better than just the one column layout.



Next we have the posts. First post I read I did not like. Then I started reading the achieves (where I found the mentions of this site) and I read a post that I really liked. He said:

i know some of you are going to stop linking me after reading this, and thats fine. i expected that.

to which I just kept on reading. That one line caught my attention and made me want to figure out if there were any other posts that I might want to not link him for.



Overall a really good site with content that is meaningful. He doesn’t care if he pisses you off in the process of his posts because he realizes they are his posts.



So I guess now comes the part were I decide what to give him for a ranking. The review is a good one, but should I give him a bad ranking just to throw a curve ball and make him think I didn’t enjoy the site? Nope. Cause I did enjoy reading the site and I hope you will too.aphony

In a lot of my reviews I talk about sites that look simple. They carry a simple colour scheme, the navigation is simple, and the layout is simple. That’s because, generally, it works.



However, to make something look simple and yet still work takes a lot of effort and skill, and time. I don’t think that enough of these have been invested in this site yet to warrant a daily visit.



The blog itself, though indepth and mildly interesting, is not entertaining. The author has put a lot of effort into these posts, but usually comes across as a little aggressive and unhappy, which is not what we came online for.



Design wise, this site isn’t minimalist or anything smart like that. The colour scheme needs work, and the navigation simply doesn’t make sense. Despite only having a couple of sections, it is rarely obvious how it is you get back to the blog.



Maybe one day this site will be worth a visit, but for now it reads like too much work. There are better sites out there deserving of your attention.Bittersweet Retreat