OMFG

Chardee MacDennis

WTF is this? last edited 21/04/09 :eek:

http://www.rahenydigital.com/

jebuz

Feels like stepping back in time a little

Dades

Sweet Jebus.

They have CUSTOMERS too. :pac:

TPD

Jesus thats painful. Reminds me of the early days of geocities.

Edit: Check the sample sites. That really is awful. Tempted to get freelancing myself. If people will pay for something like that, I should have no problem making a bit of cash.

waraf

That's the funniest website I've seen in ages. The youtube video was obviously a big budget production

Chardee MacDennis

TPD wrote: »

Jesus thats painful. Reminds me of the early days of geocities.

Edit: Check the sample sites. That really is awful. Tempted to get freelancing myself. If people will pay for something like that, I should have no problem making a bit of cash.

i can only imagine its some transition year student or something!

waraf

TPD wrote: »

Jesus thats painful. Reminds me of the early days of geocities.

Edit: Check the sample sites. That really is awful. Tempted to get freelancing myself. If people will pay for something like that, I should have no problem making a bit of cash.

Oh God I just saw the sample sites :eek::eek:

The guy has a wonderful eye for colour

biko

http://www.rahenydigital.com/websites.htm

We at Raheny Digital Media like to stay with simple designs and Easy~Flow websites.

elyod

Whats the point in having a Youtube VIDEO to display nothing but text?

Chardee MacDennis

theres a javascript clock on this one:

http://www.taxiwebdublin.com/

genius, why didnt i ever think about animated gifs and JS clocks....

Webmonkey

Makes me want to cry

waraf

BastardPrince wrote: »

theres a javascript clock on this one:

http://www.taxiwebdublin.com/

.....and the stars seem to dance!!! How do they do that?????????:D

Webmonkey

<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">

Enough said.

onemorechance

You gotta say fair play to this guy. It seems like he has learned Front Page and is making websites commercially! They are s##t, but if he is getting paid! No css either!

di11on

Oooooh.... I love the spinning CDs :-)

It has to be a hoax... it's a good one! Fair play guys - you got us!

What a way to get back links. I'm sure they'll unveil the real site soon :-)

Chardee MacDennis

i dont know, some of those sites were created over 2 years ago...

NickNolte

BastardPrince wrote: »

WTF is this?

A piss take?

kevteljeur

You'll find more than a few state and semi-state sites cut from the same cloth; I'm pretty sure it's for real. There are plenty of visually-illiterate/web-illiterate people out there, enough that stuff like this can find a paying audience.

It's the web equivalent of the 'Northside' free tabloid. Someone somewhere thinks it's good, and that's enough.

lil_lisa

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

sticker

The sick puppy in me wants to mail him a link to this thread - The guy probably sits in the local telling his mates about his "digital company"

Webmonkey

Already phoned him looking for a 'quote' - he said find a website that I like and that he'd copy it.

eman66

My fave: http://www.5starplumbing.ie/

It's called anti-design. Haven't you heard? It's the new.. eh.. something.

Webmonkey

eman66 wrote: »

My fave: http://www.5starplumbing.ie/

It's called anti-design. Haven't you heard? It's the new.. eh.. something.

That is an absolutely terrible website. I genuinely feel sick.
This stuff is very damaging to a company.

elyod

Look how big the "5 star logo" is

http://www.5starplumbing.ie/THE5StarLogo.jpg

1602 × 562px and he has the browser do all the work scaling it down to 196 × 80px. Along with lack of design and colour coordination, he obviously hasn't a clue about presenting graphics over the net with bandwidth in mind.

Gordon

Webmonkey wrote: »

Already phoned him looking for a 'quote' - he said find a website that I like and that he'd copy it.

Give him something like this and see what he says.

Incidentally, the music in his promo really sums up his easy-flow style of visual creativity imo, it's quite unnervingly weird and terrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6xqSzbJv48

Webmonkey

You love your flash Gordon. That's impressive stuff.
Yeah I had plans to go into heavy technical details with him too and see how he react.

gimme5minutes

Looks like he's going for the old retro 1999 website look.

Kila

What's with all the crests? It kinda looks like he got a bumper pack of crest background graphics, and has just incorporated them into everything...

Webmonkey

Yeah looks like a dodgy GAA club website

elyod

He uses the Aston Villa crest for Aston Builders Ltd. Surely there's some copyright issues there.

The amazing thing is that these companies he has done website for seem to be actual, real companies.

matrim

Webmonkey wrote: »

Already phoned him looking for a 'quote' - he said find a website that I like and that he'd copy it.

Give him a link to the BBC site and say you're from looking for a Fine Gael website

WizZard

You just don't see enough <marquee> these days. Ah, the nostalgia!

MOH

Webmonkey wrote: »

That is an absolutely terrible website. I genuinely feel sick.
This stuff is very damaging to a company.

Ah now be fair. It does say it's under construction

elyod wrote: »

He uses a poor quality scan of the Aston Villa crest for Aston Builders Ltd. Surely there's some copyright issues there.

Fixed that for you

God, I'm getting into the web design game tomorrow if I can get away with stuff like that.

CuLT

20th century design delivered fresh to your 'tubes as if it were made yesterday!

Kinetic^

CuLT wrote: »

20th century design delivered fresh to your 'tubes as if it were made yesterday!

20th century? That's a tad generous tbh.

Burklert

Relax everybody.

All his sites are entirely W3C compliant.....

smemon

I started off doing stuff like that using frontpage in transition year back in 2004 - but i'd never put that stuff online Even then it wasn't acceptable and i knew it, but that's how tech savvy our teachers were...

I blame the government - they don't/didn't take technology seriously or integrate it with leaving cert / junior cert (recently i think they introduced and IT course though?!).

Probably the work of a student and if still in secondary school and learning, somewhat excusable, but if not and this guy is 18+ or does this full time :eek::eek::eek:

tricky D

Webmonkey wrote: »

To be honest I created {snipped}* for our mini company when I was in transition year and if I may say, it is a hell lot better than what he produces.

* Sever got hacked unfortunately so if it contains anything strange , ignore....

AVG says Threat Detected for that one so I ain't going further. You might remove the link or fix as you see fit.

Webmonkey

tricky D wrote: »

AVG says Threat Detected for that one so I ain't going further. You might remove the link or fix as you see fit.

Thanks, I'm on Linux with no virus software so didn't know. God damn Russian guys...... destroying me. You might remove it from the quote too thanks. I'll fix it soon.

Fixed it there anyways

gary82

At least on the About Us page they do say "We can only get better...."

That is a hilarious site... but very shocking when you think people have paid money to such a company...

JerryHandbag

What a feckin cowboy! Shockin stuff....you could actually teach a 10 yr old to do a better job :eek:

Cabaal

Ouch that site is scary...reminds me of geocities, tripod and angelfire websites from around 1997....

I'm actually shocked people would hand over money to this crowd given youd likely do a better job yourself using MS Word (god knows why youd use word but would be better) :eek:

Webmonkey

Cabaal wrote:

youd likely do a better job yourself using MS Word

That's a fact

Cabaal

Webmonkey wrote: »

That's a fact

I've looked over the site now and frankly I'm very upset there is no sign of the <BLINK> tag :mad:

:pac:

Webmonkey

Cabaal wrote: »

I've looked over the site now and frankly I'm very upset there is no sign of the <BLINK> tag :mad:

:pac:

Wow even I am too young to actually remember that tag :eek: Wouldn't be surprised if it there somewhere.

Pub07

How is it possible to produce work like that, and get paid for it, in this day and age?

gary82

He must be a great salesman in fairness!

pontovic

It's quite easily possible because a lot of people in business in Ireland have a very poor understanding of the internet. To them, a €200 site put together in a weekend is more attractive than a €2,000 site that takes a lot of thought and effort to put together and get right. Why? Simply because it's cheaper.

I can put my technical hat on and say 'but this site isn't coded to W3C standards','the graphics look like they were done in word','it looks like something from 1994' etc, but you have to think about how the customers he is targetting perceives his work. They don't care a monkeys about any of the above. Simple fact is they got a website for €200 and that's much cheaper than the 'exorbitant' rates being charged by today's professionals.

To small businesses who only want to pay peanuts for a website, things like requirements gathering, standards compliance, branding, usability, functionality and search engine optimisation are just bells and whistles and buzzwords.

I think this business will keep ticking over and bringing in small amounts of money for now. There is a market for people who want crap, cheap websites but I can't help but feel that there won't be much repeat business heading their way.

Axwell

pontovic wrote: »

To them, a €200 site put together in a weekend is more attractive than a €2,000 site that takes a lot of thought and effort to put together and get right. Why? Simply because it's cheaper.

Possibly but there are plenty of companies out there offering templated or cheaper websites that are a higher quality and standard than this though.

ocallagh

at least it was mainly taxi drivers that were shafted

Cabaal

ocallagh wrote: »

at least it was mainly taxi drivers that were shafted

I'd imagine the person running it is either a Taxi driver or her/her friends are...might explain why you have Taxi drivers groups/companys on the site