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  • bogeyman
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    Originally posted by George Parr View Post
    http://www.preferred-it.com/

    Menus don't work in FF3.5 or IE8
    That site is comedy genius.

    In FF Mac, The menu appears in the left sidebar and actually hides from you when you approach it with your mouse pointer.

    Check out the massive white-space gap on the home page between the 'above fold' content and the spammy SEO crap below.

    FAIL

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  • George Parr
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    http://www.preferred-it.com/

    Menus don't work in FF3.5 or IE8

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  • OrangeHopper
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    Originally posted by George Parr View Post
    I'd like to nominate Hector's Online Services pages which don't display properly in Firefox and contain loads of validation errors.
    I had just assumed that was the way they wanted it to look!

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by George Parr View Post
    I'd like to nominate Hector's Online Services pages which don't display properly in Firefox and contain loads of validation errors.
    But oddly enough works fine in Safari, or it did last week when I used it anyway.

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  • George Parr
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    I'd like to nominate Hector's Online Services pages which don't display properly in Firefox and contain loads of validation errors.

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  • BrowneIssue
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    Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
    I don't know if it has changed in the few hours since you posted, but the Opening Time banner was the first thing I saw. It's directly under the main banner, and is misspelled "Opening Tmes" as Oranger Hopper pointed out.
    ... flash of inspiration ... opens IE ...

    That (badly pixellated) top banner does not come up in Firefox, neither on my desktop nor Her Ladyship's.

    Edit: That was FireFox v2. The banner does appear on my laptop with FireFox v3.5.3 where, thankfully, the video does not auto-play. But some of the text is truncated on the left which it wasn't in v2.
    Last edited by BrowneIssue; 19 October 2009, 10:16.

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  • jmo21
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    I don't know if it has changed in the few hours since you posted, but the Opening Time banner was the first thing I saw.

    It's directly under the main banner, and is misspelled "Opening Tmes" as Oranger Hopper pointed out.

    Ugly, ugly site though!
    Last edited by jmo21; 18 October 2009, 13:51.

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  • thunderlizard
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    Originally posted by Sysman View Post
    Text left margin chops off half the first letter on each line.
    That is true, but I would be quite interested in seeing Coventry market's famous circular oof.

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  • BrowneIssue
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    Originally posted by OrangeHopper View Post
    "Opening Tmes".


    Her Ladyship answered that. She managed to pause the video on the home page as the camera approaches the doors and just before they open. There's a few frames where you can see they open Mon-Sat.

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  • Sysman
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    Text left margin chops off half the first letter on each line.

    It wants a Windows MediaPlayer plugin.

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  • OrangeHopper
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    "Opening Tmes".

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  • BrowneIssue
    started a topic Crap web sites

    Crap web sites

    Perhaps the owners of ContractorUK might want to consider creating a "Unintentionally Crappiest Serious Web Site in Britain Award" as a way of publicising this site?

    Here's my first nomination: the Coventry Retail Market web site link.

    It never seems to finish loading, doesn't give their opening times, navigation is all over the place, the directions are wrong, no contact details, change the text size and it becomes illegible, only 5 broken links but 3 are from its own site.
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