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It is my opinion that 90% of these so called qualified collage boy designers are all papers and NO brains. Examples of bad webdesign are: Buy and sell (place ad link gives blank page), O2.ie View mobile/broadband history does not work just dead links.
Too many designers in a hurry to get the cash do not even focus on the job at hand and so end up publishing sites where links are not working. This in my opinion in typical of Irish Web Designers I have come accross so many Irish Websites that have so many broken links, typos and general mistakes that I would NEVER hire an irish web designer to do work for me. There seems perhaps to be a system of hiring guys who barely passed their exams in collage and never pay real focus to what they are doing.
Too much focus is placed on whether these people have certificates and papers and absolutely NO focus is placed on whether or not these collage kids have the actual intelligence to do the job properly.
I learned web design by self study, I know many others who did the same and we could design a site better than half of these half-baked collage kids who are ALL PAPERS AND NO BRAINS!
Hi Shane,
It is also the owners who are so lacking in the Internet that allow these poorly designed and structured sites to be created.
We still get in directors of companies asking for a “2 pager” website and oh by the way it has to appear on the top of that Google thing!
I believe there should be exams and paperwork etc, I have the paperwork and am also self taught but web design is a very easy business to start.
Many new “companies” in my local area are actually full time employed in other jobs and do website design at night at home in their bedrooms.
We are different because we have full time staff, full time offices and want our sites to do well.
The other boy-racer web designers do get work but they get the stuff we also don’t really want as they get companies who dont really trust the web and invest a little in it. We want and get the companies who we move their companies forward and develop their businesses over the years. Yes they do spend/Invest more but their reward is more.
Considering that the way forward for websites is young designers, i dont think you should be knocking them. They get the crap jobs because they need the work and have to work with the resources they have like computer programs. If any thing you should be encouraging them to take on more work which will make your business more reputable.
But m sure Mr Keagh and the media company realised that and miss wrote the comments they made
Hi Declan,
Thanks for your comment and yes I agree young designers are very important to the industry. As they are to all businesses as they are the future, but they also need the experience of web design and they comes with time.
I met a client yesterday who paid €3,500 euro for a kid (experienced in Bebo only) to create a website for their company. They needed a campaign to get them listed in Google with in 3 months. Just page one, not top, but just on page one.
They site they got is in “Frames” and “Tables” and all the text is made us as a “Graphic”!!!
Oh did I mention it is 5 pages of html.
This company has been robbed as far as I am concerned and they thought they were getting a real “Website”.
I blame the company for not educating themselves in what a real website is and how much it should cost and I also blame the kid for producing a website that is something from the 90’s
When this happens it gets the industry a bad name, that’s one of my worries.
I’m just an old man(35) having a rant!