UKNM: Half of UK sites are "broken"

[Philip Rooke]

>From www.NUA.IE:  Half of UK sites are "broken" 


Oct 6 1998: Just over half of Britain's Web design companies and

Internet consultancies have significantly flawed websites, with glitches

such as dead links, broken graphics and faulty links to email addresses.


In a survey of the sites of 911 UK companies offering Web development

services, the Internet consultancy Port80 found that 462 sites - or 50.7

percent - had dead links, broken graphics and faulty links to email

addresses on their own sites. 


"There are no trusted independent names and everyone from packaging

designers to chartered accountants to bakers are jumping on the

bandwagon hoping to make a bit of money out of the lucrative web design

market," the company says. 


Port80's director Jason Finch commented: "I am staggered and shocked by

the huge percentage of sites that contain such basic errors. It

represents more than half of the sampled companies." Port80 said they

ignored "the complicated, difficult to find, or debatable errors of

code" and concentrated instead on "the most basic faults".


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And we wonder why clients don't take new media seriously.  


I appreciate that not everyone has the resources that we do to get it

right first time.  But this is still serious? Do we need some kind of

Policing, Guild of Master Website Builders, Blacklist or other form of

cowboy outfit killer?


Comments please


Philip Rooke

Carlton Online

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