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 25 2009
No Comments written by: tom
I will be giving a talk as part of the “Content is King” day organised by our friends in Media Contact on November 19th. Thankfully people won’t just have to listen to me all day. There are lots of other interesting speakers that I hope will make the day memorable for all those attending.
My talk will be about “Creating Winning Websites” and will focus on sites that make an impact. What they did, how they did it etc. I am sure there will be some room for some shameless plugging of client projects but mostly I will concentrate on the bigger picture…
I am really looking forward to the event - no doubt nerves will play a part as I am sure Jack will ensure that the room is full to bursting point. If anyone has any helpful nuggets of info that they think should make it into my presentation leave a comment below!
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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