www.vaveeva.com

For any number of reasons....

Their tell-a-friend script is "mailto&subject=www.vaveeva.com"

Their company registration number is 123456 - http://www.vaveeva.com/aboutus.aspx

Misspellings everywhere

Illegibly small grey font on white background

White links on a white background - http://www.vaveeva.com/podcasts.aspx

Horizontal scroll on blog pages in Firefox - http://www.vaveeva.com/blog.aspx?id=115 - In fact the site fails completely in Firefox

Logo doesn't link to homepage

Images on Gallery are simply resized versions of the original rather than thumbnails - http://www.vaveeva.com/gallery.aspx

The completely ridiculous claim that "It is now expected that the number of monthly visitors to the site will hit 100,000 by mid-February" (Migrant website Vaveeva doubles visitor targets: ThePost.ie) - So 2 months or so after launch they expect to be nipping on the heels of sites such as Monster (158k) and Pigsback (271k) (Daft.ie : Daft.ie ABC Audit for September 2006)

Also for the claim that they generated 16k visitors on an AdWords budget of $500..which works out at approximately 3c per AdWord click through - And I did a check of phrases such as 'moving to ireland', 'relocating to ireland' etc in Google and not one returns an ad for Vaveeva .

Why do I dislike this site? Besides the obvious complete failure of it's 'design' I dislike it because for the last 4 years I as a web designer have suffered dismal wages that came about as a result of the dot com crash, a crash that was caused by sites over-inflating their stats to a public that were more than happy to believe them. For some reason I thought web 2.0 had brought about a sense of realism but then I read claims like this and realise some people learned nothing.

The images in the header bear a striking resemblance to ones taken by a Polish blogger

Dzienniki Irlandzkie MacKozer’a » Dublin po raz kolejny i kolejny - parada gejów i lesbijek

compare that to their header image (attached)

Oddly similar, aren't they?

And I know he didn't give Vaveeva permission to take his images.

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Well spotted, am familiar with Mackozer's blog & photography and completely missed that one.

Considering the 'middleweight' pedigree of the site founders/backers this site has me speechless. I really would have expected better.

Krystian used to share the house with me in Carlow and approached me about the situation the other day

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He's probably in a better position than most to do something about it considering he's Polish and he Blogs! He should just do a screen grab and write a blog about it. I'm sure they wouldn't want to be seen by their Polish visitors to be ripping off a fellow Poles work.

It crashed my browser

Oh... I missed the other 4 pages...

I am embarrassed to admit that the use of Krystian's photos was down to a mistake in the agency I work for (my mistake really). Vaveeva didn't know about it until last week, and then they contacted us to make sure that Krystian received fair payment for use of his photos.

So whatever about design, or usability issues - they aren't to blame for using Krystian's pics.

I came across this in an adwords listing while researching local search for a blog post:

Take Away Food Menus :: takeAwayFood.ie :: Home


and the site designer is:

Orbrio

Almost funny....

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