Worst dot ie website

Victor · 07-10-2004 12:48am #1

I'm just wondering what people think is the worst dot ie webstie(!) out there (not necessarily comparing Joe Bloggs blog

to the ESB - take proportionality and resources into account).

www.luas.ie really has to pick up bonus point for including the List of Ticker Agents in *Powerpoint*

http://www.luas.ie/document/index.asp?head=3

Vadafone and O2 get honourable mentions.

heggie · 07-10-2004 1:35am

ah for those that can remember bertieaherne.ie has/had the crown, gone now tho

jor el · 07-10-2004 9:48am

That was bertieahern.com wasn't it? It's still there as is bertieahern.ie (notice no e at the end of Ahern). You need to be a registered business in Ireland to register a .ie domain.
Anyway, worst .ie I've ever seen (and probably one of the worst of any domain) is tv3.ie. Brutal website. This would probably be more suited to the webmaster forum too.

tipperaryboy · 07-10-2004 4:53pm

Yes the best dot.ie websites would have to be o2 & Vodafone.
No other dot ie website makes it close

fragile · 07-10-2004 5:04pm

boards.ie

/me ducks and runs for cover

jesus_thats_gre · 07-10-2004 5:06pm

What makes the luas, vodafone or o2 sites the worst?

D-Generate · 07-10-2004 5:07pm

Have any of you looked at www.ucc.ie ?
Such an appalling site to my eyes. (Note the pun

)
Its a bit of a disgrace for something that I bet had loads of money pumped in to it.

Basq · 07-10-2004 5:09pm

I think www.powercity.ie is possibly the worst dot.ie website for the eyes!

And also for sheer terrible design - check out the frames on both sides of the page!

Strange!!

DoesNotCompute · 07-10-2004 5:20pm

basquille wrote:

I think www.powercity.ie is possibly the worst dot.ie website for the eyes!

And also for sheer terrible design - check out the frames on both sides of the page!

Strange!!

Gotta agree. That is murder on the eyes, it uses way to many frames (actually ONE frame in an entire website is too much IMHO!), and it completley sucks.

I always thought the Dept of Foreign Affairs website is pretty crap, cos it's poorly designed, and you can't find what you're looking for on it. It also uses really small text, which sucks if you're eyesight is not great...
http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/

chump · 07-10-2004 5:45pm

that ucc site is dreadful looking

vodafone website for being down and slow sooo often and for being generally style-less...

seamus · 07-10-2004 6:07pm

Don't see anything wrong with Vodafone, O2 or Meteor. They're pretty compatible with the popular browsers.

My god, never seen powercity.ie before.....woeful.

How about www.environ.ie ?

jesus_thats_gre · 07-10-2004 7:09pm

seamus wrote:

Don't see anything wrong with Vodafone, O2 or Meteor. They're pretty compatible with the popular browsers.
QUOTE]

Spot on, compared to the like of Power City these sites are years ahead. Also, functionality wise, there is very few other sites that come near them..

ionapaul · 07-10-2004 7:23pm

UCC and powercity are the worst mentioned by far. The government ones arn't so bad (not that they are great) - they are certainly paying someone big bucks to design and maintain them!

Zoso · 07-10-2004 7:33pm

I think http://www.itnet.ie/ has to be included here. Doesn't appear to have been touched in a few years so you've got to forgive it .. a little

Zoso

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blobert · 07-10-2004 8:55pm

I don't know what you're all talking about, the Powercity site is beautiful. So many bright colours, so easy to navigate...

cgarvey · 07-10-2004 10:08pm

jor el wrote:

You need to be a registered business in Ireland to register a .ie domain.

On a point of order, that is completely untrue.

.cg

Tiriel · 07-10-2004 10:13pm

what I will say for powercity website is that I checked it out a few weeks ago to but a tv and filled in the request form.. within 5 mins a representative rang me back (at8pm at nite) and had it all sorted out.. delivered next day. not bad service despite the dodgy looking site!!! surprised me!!

mike65 · 07-10-2004 10:20pm

Power City. Why is anyone suprised, you've seen the tv ads!

Mike.

tadgher · 07-10-2004 10:22pm

seamus wrote:

How about www.environ.ie ?

To understand how bad this site is, you need to (try to) visit it using a Macintosh. Visiting with Firefox on a Mac, with default settings, is particularly enlightening (hint - you receive a PDF of a scientific paper).

God knows how much they paid to be embarrassed like that.

dead air · 07-10-2004 10:36pm

vodafone.ie... I've always found the log in procedure is painfully slow.

JW123 · 08-10-2004 11:05am

dead air wrote:

vodafone.ie... I've always found the log in procedure is painfully slow.

I think they do it so people won't use the free text messaging as much

SprostonGreen · 08-10-2004 2:50pm

That Powercity site is indeed dreadful. And the itnet, watch out for the y2k buy, class.

talos · 08-10-2004 3:04pm

how about www.eolach.ie ? :eek:

Stephen · 08-10-2004 8:28pm

www.itcarlow.ie is brutal. It was fine when they first got it done (must have paid somebody with some webdesign skills to do a proper job) but then they just kept updating it themselves and ****ing up the design more and more.

with regard to tv3, one of my mates used to work there, he says they had plans to revamp the website over the summer but they got squished by the bean counters

mneylon · 09-10-2004 11:41am

A lot of the university sites are horrendous. In some cases they seem to have got someone to do the main page to a "reasonably" professional level, but once you start navigating the subpages you find some of the ugliest bits of HTML on the web.
UL , for example, is full of these:
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/ - pretty bad, but bearable...
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/spanish/homepage.html - ouch!

http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/spanish/homepage1.html - eek!

The site is so inconsistent:
http://www.ul.ie/presoff/index.htm

They have provided guidelines for users, but they seem to be totally ignored:
http://www.ul.ie/main/help/webhelp/

*sigh*

sceptre · 09-10-2004 12:58pm

blacknight wrote:

A lot of the university sites are horrendous. In some cases they seem to have got someone to do the main page to a "reasonably" professional level, but once you start navigating the subpages you find some of the ugliest bits of HTML on the web.

Mmmm. In the case of UL, each department has pretty much decided to have its own corporate identiteeee, given that site development for the department comes out of their own budget, so there's no consistency (as well as the code being cumbersome and useless in some cases where there are dropdowns all over the place not working properly)

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