I've mentioned the horrific salesonline.ie site a couple of times in the past.They've now taken the site offline and are instead displaying a holder page with their contact details.At least they're not making us all suffer through that video anymore!So anyone want to take bets on whether their new site will actually comply with any web standards? … [Read more...] about SalesOnline Semi-Offline
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SalesOnline.ie – Worst HTML Coding Of The Week
For a number of reasons I had to look at the SalesOnline.ie site today. I would have thought they'd have got round to fixing its basic brokenness, but I was wrong.If you try to view that site in any browser you will suffer.Why?Basic HTML code hasn't been used.How hard can it be to specify which version of (X)HTML you're using?If the "designer" had even picked up a book on HTML … [Read more...] about SalesOnline.ie – Worst HTML Coding Of The Week
More Golden Spiders Fun
Golden Spider bashing might appear to be a national pastime, but I guess it's all down to the size of the target!This year they've made a small effort to validate their weird choices by letting us, the public, vote on two of the categories. Of course, as Niall found out, the developers who did their site for them aren't exactly the most competent, as they didn't setup the forms … [Read more...] about More Golden Spiders Fun
When Is A Link Not A Link?
When is a link not a link?When you can't actually click on it.Someone started a thread over on CI the other day about NetVisionary nominee PanthiusThe footer of the site contains a set of "links" which DO NOT work if you are using a normal browser:It transpires that the links do work if you use Internet Explorer, which shows how "popular" a browser that is with Irish creative … [Read more...] about When Is A Link Not A Link?
Local Authority Sites Don’t Need to be ugly
I just visited the Carlow website. It's horrific. It's embarassingly bad.Why can't they do something like Clare or Donegal?Does a county have to rely heavily on tourism to have a decent looking website?I'd have thought not.Earlier this week Carlow decided to have a carfree day before the rest of Europe. Whether this was a good idea or not isn't important, but if you were a … [Read more...] about Local Authority Sites Don’t Need to be ugly