AIB has redone their site a small bit making the navigation that bit simpler.
What’s really nice is that they’ve made the online banking links really prominent on the top left of the navigation bar.
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I see banking online itself remains insane, though.
I like it – it’s a big improvement on what was there. It looks well put toether under the bonnet too.
Thanks for the heads up, Michele. I’m beavering away writing a case study on the benefits of designing with web standards for the IIA blog and I’m going to use the before and after as an example.
Lar
Is it standards based now?
I haven’t had the energy to check 🙂
Michele
Only appears to be the frontpage they improved, their URLs still suck, and as Robert noted, their online banking app also still sucks.
Keith
It works fine for me, though the overseas EFT cutoff thing strikes me as more than a little demented
Michele
HTML – validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS – no errors
A few accessibility errors, but nothing that seems too serious.
I ran it through http://www.totalvalidator.com/ which is a great little plugin for Flock/Firefox – even does browser sreengrabs
Michele,
seems to be standards based, though probably a little bit of DIV-itis going on (too many DIVs)
Michele, can you tell me, if there are any statistics, on how much “bandwidth” costs for a commercial organisation.
What I’m getting at is if I saved 20 GB of bandwidth per page, per year, how would that translate into brass tacks?
lar
Lar
It depends on how much they are buying ie. if you are buying 200 megabits you pay a lot less per meg than someone buying 5 megabits.
In the case of a bank they’re probably using leased lines or maybe fibre (I’ve no idea where their equipment is, so I’m just making a wild guess).
Apart from a cost saving they would see a performance saving if they are running X number of servers / services on a leased line…
Michele
It reminds me of the H365 website a bit.
I like it, very nice.
A big improvement. It’ll be nice when the whole site is a little more consistent though. At the moment it seems to be all over the place.
Ken
Yeah – it’s all over the place at the moment. If you go poking around you can find the oddest pages that seem to be leftovers or maybe the beginnings of things…
Keith – The URL redirects are more than a little demented, but that seems to be “fashionable” with banks 🙂 (or maybe I’ve just had bad luck!)
Michele