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Submitter’s comments: This is a disaster cleanup company (top listing under “disaster cleanup companies” at Google) that is surely in need of its own services.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Hmm. A top ranking at Google is nothing to sneeze at. On the other hand, the site is just begging for a redesign. We have a lack of contrast on the menu buttons at the top of the page and the in the sub-menus the “&” is run together — “Fire&Smoke Restoration” — with the text. The Flash is annoying, but inconsequential since there are no links. There are contrast issues with the black text on the the dark silver background on the left menu and the page scrolls horizontally.

This site reminds me of my favorite cleanup company’s web site, and a past Daily Sucker, Scene-Clean. Makes today’s Daily Sucker look like CSS Zen Garden, doesn’t it?

The home page has an interesting problem. Search engines look at the HTML code in sequence and place a higher priority on material near the top. When you linearize the home page, the first couple of screens are not what you’d expect. Poor layout.

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