dubl1nguy112
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www.vaveeva.com
For any number of reasons....
Their tell-a-friend script is "mailto&subject=www.vaveeva.com"
Their company registration number is 123456 - http://www.vaveeva.com/aboutus.aspx
Misspellings everywhere
Illegibly small grey font on white background
White links on a white background - http://www.vaveeva.com/podcasts.aspx
Horizontal scroll on blog pages in Firefox - http://www.vaveeva.com/blog.aspx?id=115 - In fact the site fails completely in Firefox
Logo doesn't link to homepage
Images on Gallery are simply resized versions of the original rather than thumbnails - http://www.vaveeva.com/gallery.aspx
The completely ridiculous claim that "It is now expected that the number of monthly visitors to the site will hit 100,000 by mid-February" (Migrant website Vaveeva doubles visitor targets: ThePost.ie) - So 2 months or so after launch they expect to be nipping on the heels of sites such as Monster (158k) and Pigsback (271k) (Daft.ie : Daft.ie ABC Audit for September 2006)
Also for the claim that they generated 16k visitors on an AdWords budget of $500..which works out at approximately 3c per AdWord click through - And I did a check of phrases such as 'moving to ireland', 'relocating to ireland' etc in Google and not one returns an ad for Vaveeva .
Why do I dislike this site? Besides the obvious complete failure of it's 'design' I dislike it because for the last 4 years I as a web designer have suffered dismal wages that came about as a result of the dot com crash, a crash that was caused by sites over-inflating their stats to a public that were more than happy to believe them. For some reason I thought web 2.0 had brought about a sense of realism but then I read claims like this and realise some people learned nothing.
For any number of reasons....
Their tell-a-friend script is "mailto&subject=www.vaveeva.com"
Their company registration number is 123456 - http://www.vaveeva.com/aboutus.aspx
Misspellings everywhere
Illegibly small grey font on white background
White links on a white background - http://www.vaveeva.com/podcasts.aspx
Horizontal scroll on blog pages in Firefox - http://www.vaveeva.com/blog.aspx?id=115 - In fact the site fails completely in Firefox
Logo doesn't link to homepage
Images on Gallery are simply resized versions of the original rather than thumbnails - http://www.vaveeva.com/gallery.aspx
The completely ridiculous claim that "It is now expected that the number of monthly visitors to the site will hit 100,000 by mid-February" (Migrant website Vaveeva doubles visitor targets: ThePost.ie) - So 2 months or so after launch they expect to be nipping on the heels of sites such as Monster (158k) and Pigsback (271k) (Daft.ie : Daft.ie ABC Audit for September 2006)
Also for the claim that they generated 16k visitors on an AdWords budget of $500..which works out at approximately 3c per AdWord click through - And I did a check of phrases such as 'moving to ireland', 'relocating to ireland' etc in Google and not one returns an ad for Vaveeva .
Why do I dislike this site? Besides the obvious complete failure of it's 'design' I dislike it because for the last 4 years I as a web designer have suffered dismal wages that came about as a result of the dot com crash, a crash that was caused by sites over-inflating their stats to a public that were more than happy to believe them. For some reason I thought web 2.0 had brought about a sense of realism but then I read claims like this and realise some people learned nothing.
