Unless I'm mistaken it seems that you can nominate people in some categories of the Golden Spiders this year without having to pay. Unfortunately it's not at all clear from the website which categories are "free" and which ones you need to pay for. Best Social Networking, Community & Not for Profit website seems to be free and is described as: " The Golden Spider for the Best … [Read more...] about Golden Spiders 2006 – Not all paid this time!
Web Design
Is Metatag Abuse an Issue?
While working on one of my little side-projects I spotted some rather interesting meta content (I also saw a lot of dross, but that's another day's work). The meta tags included on the main page of a well known company's website included explicit references to a couple of their competitors. I didn't have the time to examine all the subpages, but the inclusion of the competitors … [Read more...] about Is Metatag Abuse an Issue?
NetVisionary 2006 Voting Now Open
The voting has opened in the 2006 Net Visionary Awards. This year's list is quite interesting and there should be some hotly contested categories: Social Contribution Sean ODowd Realboyle.com Tom OConnor Clubbing.ie Tom O.Connor, first involved with the ICT in early 2001 as a security analyst, quickly grew into a CTO and now serves on the board of directors for cutting edge … [Read more...] about NetVisionary 2006 Voting Now Open
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