Golden Spiders... - boards.ie - anyone want to touch this one? hehehe

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Golden Spider time of year again lads - why don't you have a stab at guessing this year's winners.

For the craic, place your nomination and see if the usual suspects are in the mix again....

Wow they have actually exposed what criteria will be used! Kind of shocked about this one

http://www.goldenspiders.ie/golden-s...ethodology.pdf

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Of course one answer begets another question:
So how exactly did they do it last year? Pull straws?

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There is a God:
I was going to leave this well alone, but that one is just screaming out to be de-constructed as soon as they have a shortlist.

Some of the criteria are seriously thick though - how quick images load? I mean how can you ask a question like that without some context? What are you accessing the site with - your mobile phone on GPRS or your corporate fat pipe?

Actually now that I've read it I think they would have been better off leaving the ambiguity - very poor IMO.

But one upside - it gives the rest of us the exact criteria they are supposed to use to run our own little review panel... or maybe not so little...

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Eh? Why is it important to state that your site complies with standards? Surely compliance is enough without having to put silly buttons on your site. I get a distinct whiff of amateur here.

How fast are they on dial-up, that's the question. Considering broadband rollout in this country and its imminent stifling by eircom themselves, surely it would be more pertinent to test sites on a slower connection?

God, I won't ask whether they consider this a good thing or a bad thing.

Well, at least they're making some kind of effort at transparency. I wonder will they make their scorings available this year or, like last year, will they flat-out refuse to accept any kind of accountability (even to paid entrants)

It'll be interesting to see.

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Scary!

The first shocking omission is that the content is not mentioned at all. The most important question is – what does this new web site do? Who can use it? Who does use it? How well is it accepted by the users (in percentage of the target market perhaps)? Does the user rate grow, and if so at what rate?

They just did not get to the real reasons a web site is worth (an award). All their points are based on the looks. That reflects the lack of understanding that web is not the static HTML, were sites looked good (or bad). The interactivity of the Web 2.0, and of web is missing there at all. Try to score Google Earth by those scores, and see the result. Or Digg? Or Ico? Or LinkedIn? Kind of does not work, does it? Now try Ryanair’s web site, and this is where the show really begins!

Golden Globe is almost like ‘made’ for an Advertising or Media Agency web site. A brochure. NOTHING ELSE!?

I can see a lot of people having fun with that list:

Q5. Good one to ask, but I can't see how it would be applicable to a personal site ie. blog (though they refer to blogging platform, so I've no idea what they're actually talking about)

Q12. Odd wording.

Q19. Oh come on! that's nuts. We don't all use Eircom !

Q28. Are they looking for animation or avoiding it? It's not at all clear.

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Just looking at these questions is enough to make one wonder about the state of mind of the person(s) who drafted them. They look like some primary school teacher's idea of the web and the web business. How would these "judges" even know what the primary search terms for a web site are? It is quite clear that the Golden Spiders is just a money making scheme for its operators. It does not represent the highest quality of web design and web business. The judges are just shills with the sole function of distracting people from the sheer money grubbing nature of the Golden Spiders.

Regards...jmcc

The site owners often have issues with this, so how a 3rd party would know is beyond me!

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