You say tomato, Tesco says Tamato
On a positive note shopping in my local Tesco is a pleasant experience at 8am on a Monday morning – fruit and veg well stocked, very few customers and no queue at the till.
In the enthuasism to highlight the price of a vegetable fruit, someone mispelt “Tomato.”
I would normally report a typo to the manager but Tesco have consistently been brutal about fixing problems that I have reported to them.
Published in categories: Typo
Blue is the new green
A few weeks ago I was collecting my wife and newborn son from Holles Street.
Off to the parking meter with my collection of coins. As I fed the meter I noticed that the instructions tell people to Press Green Button For Ticket but the illustration beside this instruction shows a blue button. Are Dublin City Council trying to mess with those with colour blindness?
Published in categories: Typo
Road to nowhere
Residents with Fingal County Council as their local authority may know about their often bad road design and brutal signage. The Roads Department isn’t good at implementing pedestrian or cyclist facilities in thoughtful ways.
There is a gem of an example on Blanchardstown Road South, behind Power City. There is a nice footpath and off-road cycle track that brings you from the nearby Renault garage to … well, that’s it, it doesn’t go anywhere. A little after you turn the corner and pass the pedestrian crossing, the footpath and cycle track just end. How bloody hard would have been to continue to Clonsilla Road, a mere 200 metres. The area is reserved for Metro West so ownership of the land would not have been a problem. Pathetic.
Published in categories: Laziness, Shudder
Crooked ruler at Fingal County Council
Looking at the pedestrian crossing points at a nearby roundabout it looks like the Traffic Engineers at Fingal County Council have a wonky ruler.
The dished parts of the pavement on either side don’t even nearly line up. Even a kid would draw a more straight line freehand.
This was designed by the department whose policy is:
to provide appropriate traffic measures to ensure efficient and safe transportation for all road users.
Published in categories: Laziness, Shudder
Smoking impacts dexterity
I was walking through the business park on the way to work and saw proof that smoking affects dexterity. Most businesses just have the tall, thin bin for cigarette butts. The smokers at this company obviously have difficulty fitting their cigarette butts into the holes in the bin top. I must come to the only conclusion possible – smoking effects dexterity.
Now, the issues at Oracle Ireland seem to extend beyond the dexterity of its smokers, cyclists seem to be either in danger or accident prone. At the car park barrier is a sign directing cyclists to walk to the bike shelter. Unfortunately the conclusion is not obvious this time – either cyclists (who have managed to cycle to the business park) have difficulty safely making their way past a car park of about 30 cars to a bike shelter – or – the drivers of the cars have a habit of driving into the cyclists who have made it this far.
Published in categories: Laziness
Enough with the unnecessary apostrophes
I was in Smyths toy shop recently. Along one of the aisles was a note for staff about the evacuation plan in case of a fire.
“Employee’s must walk not run…” – drop the apostrophe and consider adding a comma after “walk.” And don’t capitalise “Point.”
Better still, drop over the to Borders Books and buy a book.
Published in categories: Typo
Is the site actually finished?
This weekend my wife and I are attending an ante natal class at the Springfield Hotel in Leixlip. Off to the website to get directions.
Nice looking site.
I clicked on ‘Maps’ at the bottom of the page. Nothing happened. The url in the status bar showed a ‘#’ so I waited for a popup window. Nothing happened. I looked at the source code (no tables – good stuff) and was quite surprised to see:
<a href="#">Maps</a>
for all 15 links in the footer! (i.e. no url, no javascript for a popup, no nuthin).
I did find the directions via the Contact Us link at the top of the page. Unfortunately the directions seem to have been copied from the AA Route Planner – they are horribly verbose. The M50 and M1 toll prices are out of date too.
The page also mentions getting their by rail but omits which Leixlip station to use and directions from the station to the hotel (it’s Leixlip Confey and it’s about 1.25 miles from the station to the hotel).
It then lists three Dublin Bus routes to Leixlip but gives a link to CIE’s website instead of to the timetables of each route.
I reported the links, directions and train issues a week ago. Nothing has changed except for a typo (City Center -> City Centre) being fixed.
Published in categories: Laziness, Web Dev
Opperation
I was walking through Blanchardstown Centre at the weekend. There was a glaring typo on one of the parking signs. Opperation should drop the second ‘p’. Doesn’t anyone check these signs before they are printed? After they are printed? Before they are sent out? I hope the same typos aren’t at Connolly Hospital (groan).
As Blanchardstown Centre management have not been helpful in previous occasions, I am not writing to inform them of this error.
Published in categories: Typo
Find the phone number
A friend asked me to look at the website for Cronin moving company because he couldn’t find the phone number. He wasn’t mistaken, it’s not on the site! Nor is the company address! The phone book was used to get the number.
This omissions violates item 7 (Hidden Contact Details) in 10 reasons why your website sucks. In the list it gives Amazon.co.uk as an example. From a web development perspective, the site is horrible – look at the source code. Shudder. It appears to have been generated by Adobe GoLive 4 (AFAIK current version is GoLive 9).
Published in categories: Shudder, Web Dev
Ingenuity in web design
Recently a new web design company asked those on the boards.ie Webmaster forum to review their website. It was a bloodbath.
The thread started off without a link to the site. As soon as that was rectified the massacre started. The site is so bad that some thought it was a joke.
Are you tired of being quoted ridiculous for the design of a site. Nowadays, with the cost of internet access getting cheaper, it’s of the utmost imporance that a company have it’s own web page(s) presence.
That’s where we come in! Here @ WebPagesIreland, we have many years of combined experience to help you achieve a web page that’s Quality, Ingenuity, Ubiquity, & Design.
Tired of being quoted ridiculous what? “imporance” is spelt wrong. “it’s” should be “its”. “page(s)” should be omitted. The guy in the photo on the site looks sleazy.
Published in categories: Shudder, Typo, Web Dev
