Last Saturday I did the adidas Irish Runner 5 mile race in the Phoenix Park. My first mile split time was a unbelievably fast 5:07. As this was 8 seconds faster than I have ever run a mile I figured that the mile marker was in the wrong place. The rest of the mile markers […]
Website Development
Is the site actually finished?
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 […]
Find the phone number
A friend asked me to look at the website for Cronin moving company because he couldn’t find the phone number. He wasn’t mistaken, it’s not on the site! Nor is the company address! The phone book was used to get the number. This omissions violates item 7 (Hidden Contact Details) in 10 reasons why your […]
Ingenuity in web design
Recently a new web design company asked those on the boards.ie Webmaster forum to review their website. It was a bloodbath. The thread started off without a link to the site. As soon as that was rectified the massacre started. The site is so bad that some thought it was a joke. Are you tired […]
When will it end?
I recently read Twenty Major’s comment on seeing “Must End” on a Riverdance poster. It’s a thought that many people have. Jogging to work, training for a run, I saw said poster. Unfortunately, like the gophers in Caddyshack, you get rid of the show in one place only for it to pop up somewhere else.
ntl .. upc … 404
I was sending out a mass mail for my residents association. One email to ntl.ie bounced. I knew that ntl recently changed the email addresses of their subscribers, probably to upc.ie so I went to ntl.ie to verify.