Comments on: All I Want To Know Is…

By: Mike Davidson - Lessons From The Roundabout SEO Test

Mike Davidson - Lessons From The Roundabout SEO Test — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:13:24 +0000

[...] but whatever. It’s awful… and I won’t even get into the actual design of the site. We’ve already done that once this year. [...]

By: Chris McElligott

Chris McElligott — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Poor blank document never saw it coming, how it’s parents must be feel. Growing up only to become a Word generated HTML document… oh the horror!

By: Tom Carmony

Tom Carmony — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, and the portraits were done at Yueng Lui! They look almost as good as my senior pictures taken there (12 years ago).

By: Nick Toye

Nick Toye — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think your being unfair, it looks much better in IE ;)

By: adam

adam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yeah – in IE they aren’t leaning ;)

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

18.63 kilobytes of markup. I could’a done it in 15 :)

So, were you looking for a layout for the “Newsvine Team” page when you found this?

By: Nick Toye

Nick Toye — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How can a page so small have 183 validation errors!

By: Phil Wilks

Phil Wilks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is anyone interested in setting up a charity to help people like Puget Bindery? I’m serious.

By: Tanc

Tanc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Impressive find. Word produced HTML, haven’t seen this stuff in a while.

By: Raanan Avidor

Raanan Avidor — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let me play the devil advocate.
What is wrong with this page?
So you don’t like the images? Tip, Dan and Robert are actually looking like nice people, they are leaning to break formality, I think it does the job.

The HTML is heavy? So what? Who cares? This page is by far lighter then 99% of pages on the net.

The HTML is not valid? Again, so what? Who cares? If you get to this site, can you find out easily how to contact them? I think there are a lot of “designed” sites that it is a lot harder to find that information in them.

It took 10 minutes to build this site.

You don’t need to know (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript to build it or maintain it, only how to use Word.

It’s not nice, it is not cool, but I truly believe it does the job.
(They might have a problem getting it into the search engines).

By: Nick Toye

Nick Toye — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

RE: Raanan Avidor

I don’t think I am alone in saying this but:

come again?

By: Bramus!

Bramus! — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Made with MS Office Word 9 … they prolly made it themselves.

Notice the lovely use of the conditional comments:

By: philipp wagenblast

philipp wagenblast — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Raanan: And People might have a problem reading their tagline (“The Art of bookbinding at its commercial best”) – since it’s hidden behind their photos. ;)

By: JBagley

JBagley — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder which one of the 3 of them designed it? Must be that rocket-scienctist looking oke on the right. :-)

By: Raanan Avidor

Raanan Avidor — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The site sucks, it sucks big time, I could make jokes about it (and Tip, Dan and Robert) from here till new years eve. The HTML sucks. The images sucks. Everything sucks.

Again, I’m taking the Devil advocate job here.

- What did Tip, Dan and Robert wanted? I think they wanted to put their contact information on the web (e-mail, address, phone) and they did just that.
- How much did it cost them? 0$, how much would you have charged them?
- How easy is it to maintain it? Very easy, Word and (maybe) a FTP client is all they need, no need to contact anyone, no need to know anything else.
- Lets say there will be a miracle and the site will be indexed by search engines (they will need a miracle for that to happen, and this post just might give them that miracle), now lets say that you are from Kent WA looking for a bookbinding company nearby, you go to your favorite search engine and search for Kent WA bookbinding and you find our little lovely site. Will you find in that site what you are looking for? I think the answer is yes.

It is a success.