The shortlist for this year's Golden Spiders was announced last Friday. As usual people are none too pleased with the list and I'd be a hypocrite not to agree with them. Why so much displeasure? Well you could look at the entry criteria...... Even though the awards are sponsored by large companies you still have to pay to nominate a site. Why do I get the feeling that a lot of … [Read more...] about Golden Spiders – Not So Shiny
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Blogging from the IIA Session in Carlow
I'm giving a talk later this afternoon at the IIA "thing" in Carlow. John from Strata3 is currently giving his talk on "Quality Web Design to drive customers to your site". I'll be talking on "Getting your Website spec and design right for your business" As usual my appearance with a linux laptop has caused some confusion :) … [Read more...] about Blogging from the IIA Session in Carlow
Enterprise Ireland Broken
I don't go to the main page of the Enterprise Ireland website that often, so I'm not sure how long it has been broken... but it is. It's severely broken. Trying to view the main page in Firefox is painful. It hurts my eyes. Richard goes into depth to explain its issues, so I won't bother :) … [Read more...] about Enterprise Ireland Broken
Browser / OS Usage
Which browsers are being used and which OS is popular? I'm always interested in this kind of information, but finding a good source for it is far from easy. For my own amusement I thought I'd compare two sites I manage for the year to date. The sites I choose were this one and search.ie and the results are hardly surprising: Mneylon.com Browsers: Mneylon.com Operating … [Read more...] about Browser / OS Usage
Webmaster Forum Moved
Back in January I added a webmaster discussion forum to search.ie. Over the last few months the number of visitors and general level of activity has grown, but it was still a bit on the quiet side.. After talking to a few people about ways to boost the site I've spun it off onto its own domain - with proper branding to follow as soon as I can get a logo done. The kind of topics … [Read more...] about Webmaster Forum Moved