Slick personal finance website
Although my major interest is stock market investing, I spend time reading about broader personal finance issues and am always on the look out for good sources of information. However, I find most sites of the personal finance nature tend to be either too much hot button articles or too much into product pushing. We I received a contact email with the link for money.co.uk I checked out the site and was very pleasantly surprised by the site layout and wealth of information. Of course, this is a United Kingdom based website, so the information offered there is aimed at the local citizenry, but others offering this type of material could learn a lot from the design of money.co.uk.
First, the home page layout is eye catching and intuitive. The different categories like credit cards and investing have big buttons with cute graphics. You just want to click on one to see what comes up! There are also pull down menus across the top of the page to maneuver around the site. Once you leave the home page those menus get you where you want to go.
As far as content, money.co.uk provides a very useful combination of product comparisons, news articles, guides and tips. The comparison charts for products like credit cards and utilities are very well laid out and offer and easy route to apply for the deal that makes the most sense. At the bottom of the comparison list is extensive general information on the specific products.
Finally, I like the fact you are not over powered by advertising on the site. A relatively small ad in the header, and some additional advertising at the bottom the the pages is it. So, if you a UK resident, this is a site that can really help you out with your financial education and management. For the rest of the English speaking world, financial information providers can learn a lot from how money.co.uk lays out their information.
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