Review 3600

If you like to travel, and who doesn’t, The Traveler’s Loophole looks like a website that you’d better bookmark. As I was looking through the site for the purpose of writing this review I found myself getting caught up in all the available travel deals and almost forgot about my review!

The idea behind The Traveler’s Loophole is very simple. Just about every day the owner of the site posts a travel deal put out by one of the major airlines or hotel groups. These are no mere $10 or $20 savings coupons either; we are talking substantial savings and two-for-one deals galore. Even if you’re interested in travel outside the United States you will find plenty of opportunities to save money by making use of this site.

There is also a guide that you can purchase on the site promising tips on how to get $50 coupons to help you save money when you use some of the major flight and hotel aggregators such as Priceline and Expedia, but I was impressed at the wide range of deals that were offered for free on the site. There are also notifications about contests that an airline might be running, and ways to get loads of frequent flyer miles.

This is one of those websites that doesn’t try to do everything, just one thing very, very well. It’s a deceptively simple-looking site built on WordPress, the popular blogging platform, and it’s very easy to understand and navigate.

For anyone who considers himself a savvy traveler, The Traveler’s Loophole offers an opportunity to really save money as you see the world. I’ve already bookmarked the site and as useful as it is I would bet that a lot of people will be taking advantage of the convenience it offers.

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Review 3685

At first glance, the website for the credit card processing company BluePay almost seems to be a personal weblog, with attractive little icons and an engaging auto slider on the top of the home page that unobtrusively features different aspects of BluePay’s business.

You might not think it would be very easy to make such a visually attractive site for a company that sells integrated payment processing, credit card processing, and all in one merchant accounts but that is exactly what the designers of this website have accomplished, to their credit.

When dealing with abstract financial products it is important to present them simply as well as give people the functionality they need to dig deeper to learn more about these products, and this site certainly does.

I was amazed that even at a glance I’m able to determine whether I have a need for the types of services that BluePay offers because they are listed above the fold on the home page, accompanied by the tiny icons that I mentioned before.

You are also offered the clear opportunity to chat with an online representative live, or to e-mail the company with further questions you might have.

The best websites are ones that used deceptively simple presentation to convey myriad complex ideas, and if you go over toBluePay.com, I think you’ll find like I did that the company hits the sweet spot between great design and being informative.NULL