While I may not like some of the websites that get submitted to the various directories I manage I can appreciate that not everyone can design (I can't!). However one of my pet hates are the image only sites. You know the ones I mean. Instead of pages of text they are one big ugly image. No text. No links. Nothing clickable or spiderable. You'd need to use OCR technology to get … [Read more...] about Common Design / SEO Mistakes
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Lily O Briens – Followup
Seemingly the people behind the new Lily O' Brien's site were paying attention to my post and the thread over on the webmaster forum. It's a pity that their staff can't be as mature and graceful as Ross, but there's very little we can do about that .... In any case the site now "works" in lynx and the w3c validator is no longer blocked. I have to say "works" as the use of ALT … [Read more...] about Lily O Briens – Followup
Accessibility, Ecommerce & Good Design – Buying Chocolates Online
I've mentioned issues with websites on more than occasion in the past. In some instances the issues have been mildly irritating, whereas in others they have been horrendous. When an ecommerce website basically tells me / my browser to "get lost" because I'm not using Javascript I get rather annoyed. However, for every website that tells users (and their browsers) to go … [Read more...] about Accessibility, Ecommerce & Good Design – Buying Chocolates Online
What to watch out for when hiring a developer
There are a lot of honest hard-working designers and developers out there. However, from a client's perspective, there are some things that they should be careful of and that they should possibly question The cost of the project seems to low The cost of the project seems to high The only contact details you can get are a mobile number The only contact details you can get are … [Read more...] about What to watch out for when hiring a developer
How NOT To Start A Web Design Business….
Spamming and lying plain and simple. Ripe claim to be "Ireland's Leading Web Design Company".... Ok. By what measure? Their >own website is a template Monster one. They haven't won any awards. Although they claim their site is XHTML 1.0 Transitional it isn't. If you're going to claim to be a leading web design company I'd have thought validating your site would be a good … [Read more...] about How NOT To Start A Web Design Business….