Comments on: Golden Spider Awards – The Results

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:16:24 +0000

These so-called award ceremonies have nothing to do with the quality of a website, and are only based on the ‘in crowd’ of eircom customers.

I found another Irish award site the other day with is done by o2, and called the ability awards (www.theabilityawards.com).

“The O2 Ability Awards are the first Irish business awards for best practice in the employment and inclusion of people with disabilities.”

The inclusion of people with disbilities doesn’t seem to extend to producing websites that are accessible to people with disabilities.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:26:10 +0000

Does anyone find it odd that the winners are always someone that’s forked out for a ticket for the event? So it seems to work like this – pay your 100 euro entry fee and if, by arbitrary or incompetent selection, you make the shortlist then in order to win you HAVE TO fork out to attend the event too. Well that’s good. So at least we know now that it’s not actually a mark of quality.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:01:54 +0000

The Golden Spiders are a joke. Simply a night out for big business. Is anybody seriously interested in these “micky mouse” awards

By: Weekend Links at John M. Ryan

Weekend Links at John M. Ryan — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:36:38 +0000

[...] Richard over at Red Cardinal – has a list (lists – love them – sorry) of the winners of the Golden Spiders. [...]

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:45:13 +0000

We discussed that in the Irish Webmaster boards.We need deep pockets or decent backing.

I have to say, I think I have lost all interest in the awards. Unless I’m up for something next year

Nice to see how accessible all the winners websites are. Maybe I’m just a sore loser?

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:28:29 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Brian.

While I’m very flattered by your suggestion, I don’t think I would be an ideal candidate to run an awards

Rgds

Richard

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:06:56 +0000

These awards have zero credibility.

I wonder what are the criteria these are judged on as I use RTE.ie as an example to students of poor web design. If these awards are not for design and not for quality of code (i.e. the lack of standards), what is their purpose?

Red Cardinal start your own awards, you’ve obviously spent far more time evaluating these websites than the “judges” themselves! The minimum requirement should involve use of standards and these awards should reward efficiency, SOE and design innovation. It is obvious that these criteria have been ignored.