Other commercial sites
http://www.it.co.uk/
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Problems
- The kitchen towel background leaves a lot to be desired.
- Because all browsers have different default CSS settings, and because the site was designed assuming that all browsers are exactly the same, the only link on the page is obscured by one of the animated bits of text in Mozilla, Netscape 6 and other Gecko based browsers.
- Huge script - totally unnecessary, I have done something similar in less than a quarter of the size. It has obviously been generated - by Macromedia Dreamweaver I believe.
- The script only works in Netscape and IE, mine works in far more than that, and it really is not hard to do.
- The design is based on an 800 x 600 screen resolution, which we all have don't we? The words that slide in are supposed to be hidden when you start.
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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Very good. Only one font specified. And a Microsoft font. Not everyone has this font installed, or can install it. If you do not have it, tough. -
<A href="mailto:info@it.co.uk">. This is the only link on the page. People should not have to email to get information. That is what a Web site is for. - "We know the Internet's killer application -its Television". Oh yes, you're killing me.
Somebody, please tell me what the site is for. It only has one link on the page, and that is a mailto link.
http://www.clearwellcaves.com/
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Problems
- The entire page is a series of image maps except the telephone number at the bottom. There is no alternative.
- Almost everything on the page is text. Why do they feel the need to use an image. If saved as text instead of an image of text, the page would load far faster. They might be doing it for some form of copyright but it's not going to work is it. All it does is make the page slow and inaccessible.
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The links at the bottom don't work because they are image maps and the coordinates of the links have all
been set to
0,0,0,0.
http://www.wb.com/
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Problems
- The page nedlessly relies on Flash. They do not seem to realise that professionals can have good Web sites without being dependent on Flash. Instead, you are faced with a stupid page telling you to download Macromedia Flash™ Player, - or you shall go no further.
- What about Opera, Mozilla, Safari/Chrome, Konqueror, and the rest? They all can use Flash.
http://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk/
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Problems
- The site itself does not need Flash, but the splash screen will not allow you to continue without it. Try getting past it without Flash. I have a copy of the Flash movie if you want to see it. It is disabled if you try the preview link, so you get an idea of what it looks like to non Flash users. It is not quite right. You should see a broken image but this is close enough. There is no workaround that I could see.
http://www.macromedia.com/
Problems
- I tried visiting this site using IE. At the time I did not have Macromedia's Flash Player installed. In fact I was going there to download it. The site detected that I was using IE without Flash so it decided to give me a VBScript version. My install does not support VBScript so I got a white screen with a broken image on it. Very pretty. Almost everyone supports JavaScript and only some versions of IE support VBScript, so why not just use JavaScript? Besides which, you should always have a defualt page design that does not use script.
http://www.bonustrax.com/bonjovi/
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- Minimum requirements Internet Explorer on a PC. That annoys me. What about Macs? What about linux? What about Opera, Mozilla, Safari/Chrome, Konqueror? Oh, but don't worry, you can return to download it once you have "upgraded" to a PC with Internet Explorer.
- Oh, I see. That's why. It's only in Media Player format. So, almost every OS and browser can support Flash (or other players), but they use Media Player. Even so, the Mac platform supports Media Player, but Mac users are not permitted. Other browsers on Windows can also use the Media player plugin too, but they are forbidden.
http://www.ecma-international.org/
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Problems
- You need a PDF viewer to use anything on the site - there is no alternative.
- The only means of navigation on their older site was their on board search engine, not using links. It made their site very uncomfortable to use.
Last modified: 15 February 2011