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Today I'll commence a series of articles matching how a new website named PissedConsumer.com created by and for consumers' stacks up against the industry experienced Consumer Reports. So what will be the characteristic which can give victory to one of these websites?

When you load up the websites simultaneously, the differences are quite startling. This is obvious that Consumer Reports is designed by true experts and has got quite pleasant appearance. The main colors which are used during the designing of interface are grey, white and blue. Here you can find a great deal of various links and images that are completed with short articles. The appearance of Pissed Consumer is also pleasant as it is composed with smooth red and white hues. Anyway, Consumer Reports looks more professional as Pissed Consumer does. This is partly because of the various advertisements all over their webpage (supplied by Google). By the way, while there are many links, there are no pictures and the font utilized is not absolutely uniform making reading a bit difficult on the eye. There are two sections that are really helpful. Recently developed reviews and complaints from the consumers may be simply found by means of the first section. Another is a “hot topics” section with single word hyperlinks to the subject. The only thing that I didn't like is the small font size used in the hyperlinks which are located in hot topic section.

I found Consumer Reports to be perfectly organized with topics divided into broad subject natters that could then be narrowed to my specifications as needed. There is a Consumer Reports Magazine, but there are a lot of topics on their webpage which include the discussions of the issues placed in this magazine. The organization of Pissed Consumer is also quite proper but it has some evident drawbacks. The front page includes the most lately posted complaints and reviews that may be a bit confusing to a first time visitor. There is a board which comprises lots of topics. This board is really flaring but the topics are not arranged by their themes properly. Fortunately, both websites do feature a comfortable search system in case you can't find what you're looking for on the front page. There is an opinion that Consumer Reports comprises significantly bigger quantity of information but it is not right, actually. Pissed Consumer doesn't provide a proper interface that is why it seems to be less helpful, but it actually may brag of lots of unique and really useful information.

These websites cover practically the same range of themes of articles but Consumer Report seems to be better organized and attentive for its clients. It means that consumer has an opportunity to get needed information in significantly shorter terms. Our little comparison displays that Pissed Consumer is not so comfortable and involving for visitors as Consumer Reports does.