If you have a startup company in Ireland...

Ubbquittious

It seems to be mandatory to have a picture of the Samuel Beckett bridge and the convention centre at night on the front page of your website

Why? It shows a fairly dire lack of originality for lads who otherwise do their best to appear innovative

There are so many much nicer pictures of Ireland they can use instead

*The square in Dunmanway with statue of Sam Maguire
*Mount Errigal, the hostel and surrounding bogland
*The Plassey, Inisheer
*The view from the top of mount Brandon on a clear day
*A Mk1 Escort airborne over the brow of a hill along a narrow road with grass in the middle just about anywhere in Ireland

Fr_Dougal

Better than:

Are Am Eye

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If you have any sort of startup and you are putting most of your effort in to the graphic for the front page of your website, keep your CV to hand. Anybody can create a website within a couple of hours.

Develop a strategy, target your ideal customers and focus on delivering your product or service to them. For most companies, websites should be viewed as the cherries on top of the icing on top of the cake.

sheesh

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If you have any sort of startup and you are putting most of your effort in to the graphic for the front page of your website, keep your CV to hand. Anybody can create a website within a couple of hours.

I think the OP is referring to good design which is a bit more complicated than putting up a wix template.

Social media platforms have taken away a lot of the functionality that was provided by websites it is still reasonably important in that it is the first contact that you control the look of and shouls be the focus of your SEO. it is also where you can accept payments.

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Develop a strategy, target your ideal customers and focus on delivering your product or service to them. For most companies, websites should be viewed as the cherries on top of the icing on top of the cake.

True but marketing is important too!

designers think design and user interaction is the most important.
Web engineers think that functionality is most important
I sure Marketing people think Marketing is most important.

you must be manager, focus on getting the process right and the customers will come.

In fairness you are more right then the others

whiskeyman

You forgot the sunset silhouette of the junkies shooting up off Talbot Street, as the last rays flicker against the syringes...

Sky King

Nothing says 'local plumber' better than a stock image of a black guy and an Asian woman shaking hands in front of a skyscraper in Singapore. Or some highly engages mixed gender people of various ethnicities having a robust discussion in front of a flip chart.

Stock images are class.

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Sky King wrote:

Nothing says 'local plumber' better than a stock image of a black guy and an Asian woman shaking hands in front of a skyscraper in Singapore. Or some highly engages mixed gender people of various ethnicities having a robust discussion in front of a flip chart.

Yeah that mixed ethnicity thing screams tokenism.

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Rule one: Only use Pantone Reflex Blue for your logo. Your Neice or neighbour will design it for you anyway as they were 'good at art' back in their high school days, and blue is always a 'safe' choice.
Rule two: If you provide any type of wall, floor or other covering (or even insurance) be sure to use the slogan 'we got you covered', it's rarely (if ever) used by anyone else.

Sky King

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Yeah that mixed ethnicity thing screams tokenism.

Well you wouldn't mind if they were in London or New York or somewhere I suppose but for a startup in somewhere like Roscommon it's pretty funny.