Website-strategy

I admit I got tempted out of my cave to look at this one, I don't normally have much interest in these. But anyway, this one purports to be a web design company, so it's easy to review in the sense that if the website design and coding is poor, that's the end of it, really.

In this case, the site uses code which has been obtained from a venerable free source, dynamicdrive.com. A huge no-no for a leading web design company which one would expect to be able to design it's own website without using other people's material. And a quick look at one of the sites in the portfolio showed more code which came from elsewhere. And the document type declaration, which is an essential part of the code that surfers don't see but machines do, is missing from the pages I saw. I also found bits of text copied from other sites, and it looks like there's little if any hand-written code here (not essential at all, but looks professional to another professional). Their search engine optimization is such that a search on their name turns up nothing. None of this is convincing me that I'm looking at a top web design company.

These guys or this guy was also active 3 years ago at Yahoo! Groups, where the introductory preamble was almost the same as appears on their current website. Actually I should say sites, as there's at least one identical one elsewhere. Anyway, subjects discussed in this group aside from web design included "custom made suits" and "eye vision test", so that would definitely have been an unusual conversation to join, though not one that clients for web design professionals would have beaten a path to.

I'm not going to explore this one further - unless anyone really insists - but I'd say that despite having a contact address in Ireland and another in Spain, this is an Indian setup. I have seen similar, though not until today identical, projects elsewhere; the Indians, I must say, aren't backward about coming forward and making great claims for their web design and technological skills and knowledge. And there's nothing at all wrong with that. Even a little bending of the truth in the interests of promotion is acceptible - what company doesn't do that?

But when one of your contact addresses is the offices of Dublin City Council and the other is the Coordinadora De Gestion De Ingresos, Madrid, that's not just bending the truth, that's fraud.

This is a BIG FRAUD! THEY SEND YOU FAKE CHECKS SO YOU CAN CASH THEM AND SEND THEM TO PEOPLE IN IRELAND, THEN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT WILL BE NEGATIVE, AND YOU HAVE TO PAY THE BANK.
DON'T FALL FOR THIS I ALMOST DID! I TOOK THE CHECKS TO MY BANK AND THEY TOLD THE CHECKS WERE FAKE!