Thread: Sad Websites

The emergence of the Internet (i.e. websites) is the biggest advance in communications since the steam or telephone system was invented. How unfortunate that it coincides with the worst educational standards in 150 years.
I checked out about one hundred commercial websites here on the Costa Blanca. Most are British owned but many are Spanish, targeting the English speaking communities. Some were expensive; impressive. Incredibly 90 per-cent were littered with cringe-making spelling and grammatical mistakes. Schoolboy howlers. How can potential customers be expected to take them seriously?
One was that of a TV production company and another an Orihuela information website. In each of their opening paragraphs I spotted several glaring mistakes. Coastal was costal, believe was beleive, etc.
I have (for a modest fee) tidied many up to journalist standards but there's a lot to go at. If I were looking for an analogy; imagine a beautiful person wearing filthy boots.
By the way, don't blame the web designer. Their job is to create appealing websites. They are not necessarily competent at giving their clients copy professional accuracy or marketing flair.
There's nothing wrong with websites per se. If they are not working it is because many actually deter clients with their slaughter of the English language.

Any chance you can format your post to use paragrahps, it would me much easier to read.

OOOhh you are right in the context of your post. I too cringe at the mistakes I see, I am constantly told "as long as people can understand it what does it matter" ? !

In my eyes it smacks of sloppy work and gives a bad impression to readers. If they cannot be bothered to get the basics right then what hope for the services they are offering ?

I am the first to admit my mistakes when typing, my grammar is not always good either. I am forever consulting my dictionary and correcting typing and spelling errors.

So many websites are also way out of date or the links do not work anymore. I am sure some people start them then forget about it, not realising the need to keep it fresh and informative.


Errrmm hmmmm pot kettle too though

PS there is a bit missing in your profile.

I have a web site on Roda Golf Rentals and am sure the spelling is bad. But when I created it in dream weaver there is no spell check. You have to copy and paste into a word doc 1st. This takes time and I have become lazy.

Hence I guess my site looks bad. Having seen this post I am going to try and do something about it.

When i was younger I was put on something called ITA where thing are spelt and they sound. I have always blamed this. Not sure how true it is !!

You're absolutely right. My own son was victim of this ludicrous alternative to real education. That unfortunate generation was turfed on to the streets with an abysmal knowledge of their own language.
Good luck tweaking your website but don't be too dependent upon spell-checkers. Like on-line translation services, they leave much to be desired. Furthermore they are no good either for punctuation, sentences and paragraphs. Also, a little marketing nous needs to be added to make a product or service more appealing than those of the competitors'.

in dream weaver there is no spell check

Hevs,
Try 'Shift + F7' for spell check of the page that you are working on within 'dreamweaver'.

Or alternatively go to the toolbar across the top and select 'text' then 'Spell checker' from the resulting drop down options.

Now I hope that nobody spots any errors on our website...!

Just a thought as I am adding latest images to my website, do you like music on business websites or any others ? other than the obvious one where music is the theme.

Music to my ears, Val! Anything except misspelled rap and so-called pop. Lots of REAL music please. Synthetic noise no way, Jose. Go for it. I shall be on it all the time. Can I make a start?

don't think my website supports music will have to ask my expert





Greg ? I have another question for you lol

Don't know if I want any on it either hmmmmm another dilemma