A long post about the corporate site of VHI (vhi.ie), Ireland’s largest private health insurance company, in which I suggest 5 improvements of their front-end to improve their User eXperience 100% (well actually 4 front-end changes and one tincey-winsey server configuration change). Continue reading to find out what they are…

Hand on heart, this is one of the biggest shockers I’ve ever come across.

You probably wont know what all the fuss is about. But believe me when I say that this is going to go into a text book someday. And it won’t be under a ‘best’ title.

A study into the Accessibility of major Government, Public and Political websites.

The full study is available for download from within this post.

…you had better not leave blatently obvious tracks

[WARNING: not workplace safe]

The entries this year were outstanding and testament to the strength of the Irish internet industry. These awards provide an important opportunity to recognise and showcase online excellence.

Mr. Cathal Magee, MD eircom

I wouldn’t have this to write about

We all want them. Visitors have a better experience. Searchers find what they’re looking for. Site owners enjoy more prosperity. And the Internet community have something to pour praise on. So what’s holding Ireland’s websites back?

The full results from the accessibility and standards compliance analysis of all websites short-listed for the 2006 Golden Spiders awards.

Notes to accompany my analysis.

Here are the results for those websites short-listed in categories 13 – 16.

These results cover websites short-listed in categories 9 through 12.

This is the second batch of results for the analysis of the Golden Spiders short-listed websites.

This sample includes the Best Web Design Agency category.

The Golden Spiders are billed as Ireland’s ‘Oscars’ for the Internet industry. With over 100 websites nominated I decided to take a look at the accessibility and coding standards of each site.

Here’s the first batch of results.

Any web designer touting “compliant coding standards” as a USP should do just one thing before he does so – validate your own website first.

Many of us love Google. Everyday we rely on countless Google services to make our lives a little bit better.

But what happens when Google wont play ball with your website? Here are 13 deadly sins that are sure to see your webmaster advances spurned by Google.

Enterprise Ireland are the body tasked with representing Ireland’s business interests across the globe.

Having an accessible and usable website might be a good start?

One of the greatest difficulties in designing a website is achieving consistent layout results across browser-platform combos. If you want a nice service that lets you see your webpage across multiple browsers and platforms…

Following on from a funny thread over at Michele’s blog about SalesOnline.ie, I take look at how easy it is to change the look of an element when someone passes the mouse cursor over it.

A bit of a laugh as well!