Vodka.com was recently bought for several million dollars. It currently redirects to russianstandard.com Unfortunately the site does not work properly in Firefox, so I cannot navigate it! … [Read more...] about Millions of Dollars for the domain … Website not functioning
Web Design
If you’re going to use Flash ….
The make sure you're detecting if the browser supports it. I just installed Ubuntu on this pc, so I don't have any extra plugins yet. It being a Saturday and St. Patrick's Day, I wanted to check which shops are open and until when. Browsing the Dunnes Stores website is nigh on impossible without Flash and the developers, who were probably paid a small fortune, haven't even … [Read more...] about If you’re going to use Flash ….
RSS Saved My Eyes
I have normal vision. I do wear glasses, but I could get away without wearing them most of the time. Admittedly I only started wearing my glasses on a regular basis when I walked straight past my girlfriend without spotting her (this was about ten years ago), but I wouldn't be considered blind. I'm not a designer, nor would I ever claim to be one, but, in common with a lot of … [Read more...] about RSS Saved My Eyes
Common Design / SEO Mistakes
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
Irish State Funded Agency Sends Internet Business Overseas
A couple of days ago I came across a post on Ken's blog about the new Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann website. It seems that it's now being talked about in other places. I'm not a designer, so I won't get into the entire debacle about whether Irish designers are "good enough", though you won't find me using non-Irish designers anytime soon... What does rile me however are a couple … [Read more...] about Irish State Funded Agency Sends Internet Business Overseas