Really Crap Irish Websites

colm_c

Here's just a few really bad Irish Websites, supposedly designed by pros:

www.topgifts.ie
www.wwc.ie

Feel free to add your own really crap Website...

No offense intended if the designers are here...

Sposs

That second one is very sore on the eye.

dod

well chosen. those sites truly are grim. I can't imagine that too many people are enticed by what they see to take a course in web design from the Wicklow Web Centre...

maxheadroom

http://www.wwc.ie/
If you like our site please tell your friends, and/or contact us at sales@wcc.ie

nahdoic

<meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive 5">

ugh.

Mad Mike

Bit of a before and after story this.

Check out

Old GRIAN website
In particular check out the suggested subscription in the "Get Involved" section

Now look at the transformed:

New GRIAN website

OOPS - had to edit to get links to work. Sorry.

Gummy Panda

This is my site.

I did it for a college assignment. I think its pretty crap so if anyone has any advice, please post.

Seth Brundle

Originally posted by clownboy
This is my site.

I did it for a college assignment. I think its pretty crap so if anyone has any advice, please post.

don't use Flash - search engines cannot find your main index page. Alternatively have a skip intro link (in HTML) at the bottom.

D-Generate

The Wicklow Web Centre has a list of sites developed by them, one or two are not terrible but the majority are so appaling one wonders how they paid them for it!

dynamic.ie

Originally posted by clownboy
This is my site.

I did it for a college assignment. I think its pretty crap so if anyone has any advice, please post.

Not a bad site in general. Has a decent layout and easy to navigate.

No preloader on flash intro so slowed down have way through - even on dsl. Thumbnails on gallery page are 48kb and 78kb. Should optimise these down to about 4/5kb.

I'd use a form to mail script on the feedback form you've got. Wouldn't submit one of the forms the way you have it set up.



topgifts.ie - very suprised with topgifts. For a company advertising on tv, I thought the side would be a lot better than it is. If they are going to spend money attracting customers to their site via tv ads, they should at least make a good return from it by having a decent website to match. Some gifts were pretty cool but site turned me off using it!


Cheeurs...

rymus

$2.5 million per year for a subscription to grain? Not too sure about that one...

They do seem genuinly interested in making contact with fortune 500 companies though, I wonder why that is?

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by colm_c
www.wwc.ie

Tried the links at the bottom right
404 on the AVG one
national photoshop use is a USA site
the link to google.com should really be google.ie !

Some of the links to their own site look at 800x600 but at 1024x768 you get yellow writing on a white background (waves) cringe...

Anyway this is about the best bit

tomED

Originally posted by kbannon
don't use Flash - search engines cannot find your main index page. Alternatively have a skip intro link (in HTML) at the bottom.

I agree with kbannon, dont use flash - but search engines will find your website once you have links back to it - regardless of whether its flash or not.
Google will also follow links within a flash movie, there are also alternative tags to include in the flash code that will help with being found also.

But definitely as a rule - steer clear of flash unless completely necessary if you want to be found on seach eninges!

T