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Old 15-11-2006, 12:00 PM
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http://www.crunchfitness.ie/

Seriously, was this created in Word and just exported. There are so many things wrong with this, it defies belief.

If this is what people want - well then screw that I can give people that. Just need them to wait until I take a massive dump and give it back to them, saying there you go, you got what you paid for.

And as for

http://www.buseireann.ie/site/home/

The less said, the better
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Bus Éireann - Home

The less said, the better
Hee-hee, I saw that over on CreativeIreland and was gonna post here for all you experts to have a laugh (or throw up...?) but you beat me to it.

What a joke. That's all I can say. A button for the 'visually impaired' that's hard to see even by those of us not impaired, and with no alt tags for the screen reader .

I think it's been nominated for a Golden Spider (I must add that I am only joking, because it is quite possible...)
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I think it's been nominated for a Golden Spider (I must add that I am only joking, because it is quite possible...)


You know - I actually checked and it isnt hew
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That's Irish businesses for you. They make a lot of money but don't believe in Internet yet.

I was talking to a business owner the other day, telling me his company is worth well over the 1/4 million but his website is worth 2 cent only. When I said to him do u know what he said?
"quote" - I don't care. It was done by a friend of mine who owed me a favour."quote"
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That's Irish businesses for you. They make a lot of money but don't believe in Internet yet.
Yip. I know a few Irish men who live in the States and trade all over the world but refuse to even try to do business with Ireland because so many business owners here are just happy with what they have and cant see the bigger picture.

As for the Bus Éireann home page
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To be honest, been here for the last 11 years and haven't seen worse yet.
I don't know what to believe. Makes so hard to achieve your targets in life. There is so much selfishness.
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Cost of ad in national paper = +/- €1000 one issue

Cost of high quality website = €3000 - €8000 lasts a few years ....
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Cost of ad in national paper = +/- €1000 one issue
Also
  1. You have no idea how many people read it.
  2. You have no idea how long hey read it for.
  3. You have very little information with which to test and improve further Ad variations.
  4. You have very little idea on conversion ratios.
  5. The readers were probably not actively searching for your product/service in the first place.
  6. You're limited to a certain amount of content.
  7. And as mentioned, it has a shelf life of about 1/2 a day or the 10 minutes the person took to skip to the next page.
And thats just a few of the top of my head...
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But at least the newspaper should check for basic spelling and grammar first?
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Cost of ad in national paper = +/- €1000 one issue

Cost of high quality website = €3000 - €8000 lasts a few years ....
Just to add a bit of info, I make/send a lot of ads to National newspapers and the cost of even a quarter-page ad in one of the Nationals is roughly €8,000.

A well-designed website makes even more sense now!
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