November 20 2009
No Comments written by: tom
The 2009 Golden Spider Awards were on last night and I am delighted to say we didn’t come home empty handed. Between Lightbox and our clients we were shortlisted in 5 categories and Whoseview.ie managed to win the Best New Indigenous Website Award.
This is a great honour for the team at Lightbox and Whoseview and is just reward for all of the hard work and long hours put in to the project by everybody involved!
Congratulations to all of the other winners on the night - especially our friends in Pix.ie (we designed their logo as it happens) who won the people’s choice prize for Best Social Networking website.
October 28 2009
3 Comments written by: tom
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the fourth year in a row for the Best Web Design and Development Agency category at the Golden Spider Awards.
Two of our clients are also in the frame for silverware on the night - Whoseview.ie and Mediacontact.ie. Whoseview are up for 3 awards - Best New Indigenous Website, Best Entertainment and Games Related Website and Best Classified Website. Media Contact are shortlisted for the Best Professional Services Website.
These nominations are a testament to the hard work of the whole team here in Lightbox and the efforts they have put in over the last 12 months. Well done guys!
Congratulations also to all of the other nominees - we are looking forward to a great night!
September 24 2009
6 Comments written by: tom
We worked with our content management partners Terminal Four a couple of years ago to design the interface of the National Employment Rights Authority website.
The following website of a business providing employment law advice in Ireland was brought to our attention this morning:
This would seem to me to be quite clearly an act of plagiarism. When I suggested to the site owner that perhaps he had copied the design I was told that the two sites were different and that there was no similarity… and after all you couldn’t copyright page layout and images… I suddenly felt a Magritte moment coming on.
The best bit of all was that the designer/developer in question hadn’t even bothered to change the HTML code. There was code in the page referring to the fact that they were mirroring the NERA website and they left in all of the comments from the Terminal 4 content management system e.g.
<!– End T4 - Page Content Template–>
We are going to take this as a compliment I think but I am not sure that the client will be taking the same view!
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