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My apologies, this announcement was due last week, but nevertheless,
The contract has been signed with Resolution Interactive Media of London, ON to build our new web site.
Patrick Smale, President of EKG, will be the project leader for the CFC. A select sample group of CFC members will be working with Patrick on usability issues, as the project goes along through the design phase. Preliminary target finish date is Mar 15th, 2011. We will keep you posted on progress along the way.
was their portfolio that bad? London Health Sciences, Samsonite, Trent University, Government of Alberta? or was it the "beer fridge" that threw you off...
was their portfolio that bad? London Health Sciences, Samsonite, Trent University, Government of Alberta? or was it the "beer fridge" that threw you off...
All low contrast with teensy tiny print so older folks with weakish eyes are apparently not in their remit, I suppose old folk's money is tainted and they don't want it or something.
Coding practices out of the 1990's full of invalid html using (ugh) "transitional" document type declarations. One kept loading and loading and loading until I just gave up after a full minute of waiting.
If they can make a site for us that is this dynamic looking, then we got something.
I have already commented on that site on the CFC board. It is, so far as I am concerned, crap. It wastes valuable screen territorory on a pointless background graphic. It's fonts are sized so as to be barely readible to the more senior among us (like me, for instance). It jumps around and flashes like crazy when you navigate the site - hope no one with epilepsy reads it for long! Diagnosis: excessive and gratuitous use of Flash. All in all an extremely annoying and virtually unuseable web site. Yuck.
An amature site apparently done by and for amatures. In my opinion.
Hudson boat works? I personally dislike grey text on a black background, but maybe some people like it. However, there doesn't seem to be much content.
Clicking on "events" from the top menu brings you to a screen with no info, except links to "events" (which is the current page) and "event calendar".
Click on "event calendar", of course, there aren't many rowing events right now, but click on Dec 12... a box opens, a coaching conference... location, dates, but no further information, no contact info, no link, nothing.
What's the point? So you can google for information?
I dunno, maybe it's not the site design that's the problem, maybe Hudson boat works doesn't really care if you go to a coaching conference.
For the CFC site, I hope we can do better than this.
I don't know what the customer wanted so don't know if the job is amateur.
A proper designer will guide the client away from such monstrosties.
The many CSS and HTML errors on both the home page and the portfolio pages scream amature to me. Or at least someone who doesn't care about doing things right from the beginning.
Invalid code is the equivalent of building a house without a foundation and then trying to sell it based on the great paint job.
A proper designer will guide the client away from such monstrosties.
The many CSS and HTML errors on both the home page and the portfolio pages scream amature to me. Or at least someone who doesn't care about doing things right from the beginning.
Invalid code is the equivalent of building a house without a foundation and then trying to sell it based on the great paint job.
Whatever. I'm not a web site expert. I assume they are asking for something and expecting to get it.
I had a look at the thread on the CFC board and tried that slow loading web site. It loaded in 7 seconds on my setup. Could have been 8 or 6 seconds as I only watched the second hand on my watch. Wireless laptop.
I won't know what I think about the CFC setup until it's up and running.
I had a look at the thread on the CFC board and tried that slow loading web site. It loaded in 7 seconds on my setup. Could have been 8 or 6 seconds as I only watched the second hand on my watch. Wireless laptop.
I tried it on my tower machine and it took over 40 seconds. Same internet connection. Main difference is in operating system and memory and the number of cores.
The contract has been signed with Resolution Interactive Media of London,
ON to build our new web site
Well already, I am no fan of theirs. The Trent website dances around,
is too flashy, and not really functional. Looks like they're trying to
impress visitors with JavaScript. I wonder what their failed websites
look like.
For 15 k, you can do a lot better than this.
I think something sturdy, legible, low bandwidth, functional, secure,
innovative, friendly and attractive is better. Think about keeping some
money aside (5 k), to pay a programmer down the road. Just in case
this turns out as bad as I think it's going to.
Is maintenance covered by the original contract, and for how long?
Last edited by Ed Zator; Sunday, 19th December, 2010, 07:13 PM.
I had a look at the thread on the CFC board and tried that slow loading web site. It loaded in 7 seconds on my setup. Could have been 8 or 6 seconds as I only watched the second hand on my watch. Wireless laptop.
Wow... some of the pages on my website are slow, but that's because they take 0.3s to load. Most take under 0.1s.
On the other hand, load times can be affected by how much you spend on your server also...
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