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VHI.ie – 5 Simple Steps to Improve UX 100%

Posted in: CSS,Marketing,Usability by Richard Hearne on July 22, 2008

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…

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Blind People Can’t Eat Chocolate

Posted in: Browsers,CSS,JavaScript by Richard Hearne on February 13, 2007

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.

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eGovernment Accessibility Analysis

Posted in: Browsers,CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Usability,WebDev by Richard Hearne on December 10, 2006

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

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

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If You’re Going To Steal Someone’s Design…

Posted in: CSS,Security by Richard Hearne on December 6, 2006

…you had better not leave blatently obvious tracks :D

[WARNING: not workplace safe]

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Golden Spider Awards – The Results

Posted in: Browsers,CSS,Marketing,Standards,Usability,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 24, 2006

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

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If I Had Taken My Own Advice….

Posted in: Browsers,CSS,Standards,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 16, 2006

I wouldn’t have this to write about :D

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The Quick & Easy Guide to Better HTML

Posted in: Browsers,CSS,Standards,Statistics,Technology,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 12, 2006

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?

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Golden Spider Awards – Are These Really Ireland’s Best Websites?

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Marketing,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 6, 2006

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

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Golden Spiders Analysis Notes

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

Notes to accompany my analysis.

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Golden Spiders Take #4

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

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

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Golden Spiders Take #3

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

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

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Golden Spiders Take #2

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 5, 2006

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.

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Golden Spiders Take #1

Posted in: CSS,JavaScript,Standards,Statistics,WebDev by Richard Hearne on

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.

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If You’re Going To Promote Your W3C Credentials…

Posted in: CSS,SEO,Standards,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 2, 2006

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

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13 Deadly Google Sins – Is Your Website Committing Any of These?

Posted in: CSS,Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,SEO by Richard Hearne on October 16, 2006

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.

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Enterprise Ireland Doesn’t Look Too Good

Posted in: Browsers,CSS by Richard Hearne on October 4, 2006

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?

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Check Website Layout in Multiple Browsers

Posted in: CSS,WebDev by Richard Hearne on July 26, 2006

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…

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How Not to do Hover Background Colors – Using CSS rather than JS Events

Posted in: CSS,WebDev by Richard Hearne on July 22, 2006

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!

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