This weekend my wife and I are attending an ante natal class at the Springfield Hotel in Leixlip. Off to the website to get directions.
Nice looking site.
I clicked on ‘Maps’ at the bottom of the page. Nothing happened. The url in the status bar showed a ‘#’ so I waited for a popup window. Nothing happened. I looked at the source code (no tables – good stuff) and was quite surprised to see:
Maps
for all 15 links in the footer! (i.e. no url, no javascript for a popup, no nuthin).
I did find the directions via the Contact Us link at the top of the page. Unfortunately the directions seem to have been copied from the AA Route Planner – they are horribly verbose. The M50 and M1 toll prices are out of date too.
The page also mentions getting there by rail but omits which Leixlip station to use and directions from the station to the hotel (it’s Leixlip Confey and it’s about 1.25 miles from the station to the hotel).
It then lists three Dublin Bus routes to Leixlip but gives a link to CIE’s website instead of to the timetables of each route.
I reported the links, directions and train issues a week ago. Nothing has changed except for a typo (City Center -> City Centre) being fixed.
It amazes me how lapse some business’ are with their own websites, they don’t seem to understand that this is their very own shop window to the world. Here in Spain- the amount of people that are still operating with websites made entirely from “Flash” or “Netscape Composer” is disturbing. Educate the world one site at a time