Well what gets me is how they worked out that they were "top" for that category, since last time I checked Alexa didn't even offer that form of categorisation

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Just wondering what people think of this as an idea??? Michele - I wasn't arsed rewriting it so I just copied and pasted!

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Dave

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It doesn't. Just nonsense. Like putting a serious accessibility statement on a website full of font tags, nested tables and spacer gifs. Honestly, sometimes I'm embarrassed to be in this industry.

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To be honest Dave, I don't think this would work. Who would set it up? What if 100 web designers who were better than him/her took exception to this and rubbished the notion? What group could be collated consisting of, indisputably, the best Web designers and commercial Web developers in the country? I know plenty of designers who are utterly, utterly crap and who are so deluded that they'd want in on the ground floor and be founding members. It can't work. Simple as. It's about adhering to best practice and enough client education so that blaggers cannot pull the wool over their eyes.

I think some of the ideas have merit, but if a "proper" award was to be setup you would need to have non-Irish judges

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I think it would be amazing to have a more industry-orientated awards just like the Blog Awards is truly an industry award because it has come from a Blogger, for bloggers.

Anyway, if I have a good enough site I'll probably enter some awards next year - might aswell try.

I think eircom were in a great position to set up a fair and well-run awards but they've decended into farce. Brown envelopes, incompetent and unqualified judges and vested interests. Choose one or all of the above.

If a large corporate like eircom would take the incentive to run an award ceremony properly and for the good of the industry, whatever their motive might be to do so, and not for their own good or to benefit their corporate chums and golf course buddies then that would be fantastic.

However, I wouldn't trust a collective of web agency-types to run an award like this. From my experience, the web industry in Ireland simply isn't mature enough for there to be 'authorities' despite the fact that there are plenty of folk out there who try to be. To a good extent, it's still very much an old boys club and, in certain circles, needs to be saved from itself... and the likes of eircom of course.

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thoughts anyone, especially on clearscape winning?

Looked at some. Took a while to find the results. The GS website was still offering me tickets this morning

Very happy for David Behan as his site (www.raymondpotterton.com I think)was one that I particularly admired when I saw it.

Of course everyone knows that I am no admirer of the GS - my hope is that it is now such a lame duck that we wont have to put up with it in its current format any longer.

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Thanks Richard!!! Cheers for the email too. This site is www.raymondpotterton.com btw!!! I've got some photos from last night so when my brain starts working again, I'll put up a blog about the night. I think Michele is in the same boat too. Saw that he has half of a blog entry up there!!!

The night was great. Hosted by Jason Byrne, who was hilarious. There were some mad after parties in the rooms as well before management started throwing people out but I won't go into too much detail on that!!! Needless to say, it was a great night. Will post link to blog shortly!

Oh, Richard... did you know that your blog on the accessibility of the golden spider nominees websites made it into Business Plus magazine this month. The mag was in my room this morning when I woke and I came across the article. I'll scan and upload it for ya.