Worst irish website (retailer)

KdjaCL

Why has ireland got the mankiest websites for shops in the world?

they are shocking buy4now etc:

Here are some of the worst websites i have the misfortune to use , IT capital of the world me arse.
http://www.eurocycles.com/ OH sweet god.
http://www.toys.ie/ Even worse
www.atlantic.ie we stock 4 items
www.buy4now.ie updated 1999

Anyone know any worse?

kdjac

ThreadKiller

Nothing much wrong with them as far as I can see...

Red Alert

Brown thomas don't even have one.

Lenny

moan moan moan is all people do on this afterhours board ffs

Divine

You think they are bad, check this out. A philiosophy students admitted version of craigslist.

www.everything.ie



P.S. my website is signiture is top class :-)

*Page*

http://www.tonykealys.com
http://www.shop-in-ireland.net/

http://www.meathonline.com/Irish_Shop.html

Lenny

haha thought that last url you posted there said "methadome.comirish_shop.htm"

ShiverinEskimo

I worked for WorldPay for two years in Cambridge. Part of my job was debugging sites connecting to the payment pages.
All of the above are works of Electronic Art compared to some of the tripe I came across.
Oh my god there are some bad ones. And these people think they are going to sell a packet load of stuff on a site that looks like the back end of a crashed bus.

aidan_dunne

Right on the front page of that shop-in-ireland.net website, I noticed this:

"Irish Smoked Salmon is renowned the world over for its quality. This, and another famous Irish dish, Haggis is to be found in our Food Section."

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I was led to believe that Haggis was famous as being a Scottish dish. :rolleyes:

Tiriel

yup!!!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

well.. technically the scots originated in Ireland iirc.

sooo....

the websites just plain wrong.

GoneShootin

can we see an example of your web design work KdjaC ?

X-Dawg

http://www.kbannon.com

These guys actually offer web design, and this is their own banner:

rubadub

If you want horribly cut pictures and lettering check out
http://www.powercity.ie

at least now they put the prices up of stuff

Seanie M

do YOU make website KdjaC?

Sleipnir

I'll tell you one Irish site that's really annoying me at the moment.
http://www.marksmodels.com/

When you click on "enter" a javascript window pops up which you can't resize and
when the page does eventually load, you can't scroll through all the menus.

Unuseable!

impr0v

GoneShootin wrote:

can we see an example of your web design work KdjaC ?

I think it's well within someone's rights to comment on the usability and even aesthetics of a web site, purely from the point of view of a visitor to that site, without having to prove that he or she can do better.

I consider myself, and any other person without a degree in automotive design, entitled to say that the BMW 1 series is an unattractive car if that's what I think, without having to display evidence of my ability to do better.

CuLT

impr0v wrote:

I think it's well within someone's rights to comment on the usability and even aesthetics of a web site, purely from the point of view of a visitor to that site, without having to prove that he or she can do better.

I consider myself, and any other person without a degree in automotive design, entitled to say that the BMW 1 series is an unattractive car if that's what I think, without having to display evidence of my ability to do better.

Correctomundo!

Jim

If a person who can design websites is the only person who can comment on them, there wouldn't be much point in designing them in the first place.

GoneShootin

impr0v wrote:

without having to prove that he or she can do better.

I didnt ask him to prove anything. Im purely interested to see his own webdesign work, if any.

impr0v

GoneShootin wrote:

I didnt ask him to prove anything. Im purely interested to see his own webdesign work, if any.

I must have read between the wrong lines then.

GoneShootin

Dont worry about it - I didn't.

KdjaCL

Have never made a retail website but worked on www.modtheater.com

If i did make one it wouild have 1) stock 2) prices of said stock 3) pictures of stock

That cant be hard?

kdjac

SoupyNorman

www.studentcents.ie


painful

tipperaryboy

All of the irish shopping websites are crap.Some people that do know some stuff about web design should go and set up a proper irish shopping site such as something similar to amazon!

The_Conductor

rubadub wrote:

If you want horribly cut pictures and lettering check out
http://www.powercity.ie

at least now they put the prices up of stuff

You didn't mention the ghastly yellow background.....

Jim

smccarrick wrote:

You didn't mention the ghastly yellow background.....

Its amazing how so many web designers get the most basic things wrong.
It doesn't matter how cool you think you make it look, if it makes the general public's eyes bleed then it doesn't work as a website.

Selik

www.buyandsell.ie

Not strictly a retail site but I think it warrants a worthy mention for it's pure buggy appalling outdated style! Urgh. :mad:

Stephen

www.bikeworld.ie - utterly manky. looks like it was designed by a 12 year old. You know, it probably was.

X-Dawg

http://www.winwrestling.com

I think we have a winner.