Comments on: Fine Gael rips off BBC website http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website Blog of a web designer & developer called Steph who loves design, music, singing, food, gardening, blogging & shaking her tailfeather Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:59:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Digest – Jan 31 2010 – The Story http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-4524 Digest – Jan 31 2010 – The Story Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:26:50 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-4524 [...] Gael senator, Paschal Donohue. An insane figure. Question: if it was Fine Gael in charge would they just hired in cheap Russian freelancers and used the intellectual property of another organisation (then attempted to pretend they didn’tanything of the sort) to keep the website running? Fair [...] [...] Gael senator, Paschal Donohue. An insane figure. Question: if it was Fine Gael in charge would they just hired in cheap Russian freelancers and used the intellectual property of another organisation (then attempted to pretend they didn’tanything of the sort) to keep the website running? Fair [...]

]]> By: Maman Poulet » Anyone seen Paschal? http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-1867 Maman Poulet » Anyone seen Paschal? Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:35:01 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-1867 [...] I know Fine Gael head office don’t like members of their party blogging or tweeting or doing anything online (they only like using other peoples templates some might say!) [...] [...] I know Fine Gael head office don’t like members of their party blogging or tweeting or doing anything online (they only like using other peoples templates some might say!) [...]

]]> By: Web Page Designers http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-1687 Web Page Designers Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:42:42 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-1687 Great... thanks so much Great… thanks so much

]]> By: biogret http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-323 biogret Fri, 22 May 2009 22:46:44 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-323 hmm... strange hmm… strange

]]> By: » How Fianna failed and the Fine-gall of it all. http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-312 » How Fianna failed and the Fine-gall of it all. Wed, 20 May 2009 23:06:48 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-312 [...] hold on shouted the Irish blogosphere, doesn’t this site look alot like the BBC [...] [...] hold on shouted the Irish blogosphere, doesn’t this site look alot like the BBC [...]

]]> By: Fine Gael and the BBC website – On Chris’s Blog « Sam’s Blog http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-202 Fine Gael and the BBC website – On Chris’s Blog « Sam’s Blog Thu, 07 May 2009 22:19:01 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-202 [...] and the original post on Maman Poulet. Steph, a web designer and developer whose blog may be found here observes: “Their developers didn’t even bother to change the class names in the CSS [...] [...] and the original post on Maman Poulet. Steph, a web designer and developer whose blog may be found here observes: “Their developers didn’t even bother to change the class names in the CSS [...]

]]> By: Mr Toys http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-161 Mr Toys Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:41:24 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-161 Holy TimesNewRoman batman! That seems to be the only style difference, and what a horrible one! That second GetaFreelancer.com project has been deleted already. They know they've messed up. Holy TimesNewRoman batman! That seems to be the only style difference, and what a horrible one! That second GetaFreelancer.com project has been deleted already. They know they’ve messed up.

]]> By: Gary http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-115 Gary Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:28:14 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-115 The website is one of the worst "clones" i have seen. I work as a developer who has worked on many Irish Government and EU websites. If I delivered work like this I wouldn't be employed. This website hasn't been thought through at all, just a slapdash rip off of the BBC website to look impressive, the result it doesn't look impressive and the content is a complete mess, the menu's/content taxonomy don't make sense. An Irish state body would not be allowed to launch such a website as it's completely inaccessible and full of crap "hacky" code. Accessibility Snapshot: http://wave.webaim.org/report?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.finegael.org Validation Errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.finegael.org&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 What fine gael need to do is hire a proper company who have a track record of delivering a website of this scale and complexity, who will plan the content in an acceptable manner and deliver it in an accessible way. Developing this in house... they obviously don't have the skills for a Parish Church Website. This might sound a bit dramatic, but it would put me off voting FG, the denials and trying to justify theft is a joke. The website is one of the worst “clones” i have seen. I work as a developer who has worked on many Irish Government and EU websites. If I delivered work like this I wouldn’t be employed.

This website hasn’t been thought through at all, just a slapdash rip off of the BBC website to look impressive, the result it doesn’t look impressive and the content is a complete mess, the menu’s/content taxonomy don’t make sense.

An Irish state body would not be allowed to launch such a website as it’s completely inaccessible and full of crap “hacky” code.

Accessibility Snapshot:
http://wave.webaim.org/report?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.finegael.org

Validation Errors:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.finegael.org&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

What fine gael need to do is hire a proper company who have a track record of delivering a website of this scale and complexity, who will plan the content in an acceptable manner and deliver it in an accessible way. Developing this in house… they obviously don’t have the skills for a Parish Church Website.

This might sound a bit dramatic, but it would put me off voting FG, the denials and trying to justify theft is a joke.

]]> By: Kevin Cannon http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-112 Kevin Cannon Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:18:24 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-112 Seems to be back online now and looking even more like the BBC site that it did before. Seems to be back online now and looking even more like the BBC site that it did before.

]]> By: Fine Gael, BBC want their code back…..tut tut tut! | Declan Magee Design http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website/comment-page-2#comment-105 Fine Gael, BBC want their code back…..tut tut tut! | Declan Magee Design Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:46:20 +0000 http://www.iamsteph.com/?p=86#comment-105 [...] @cloudsteph posted on their blog, the CSS class name values were exactly the same as the BBC  website, which another developer from [...] [...] @cloudsteph posted on their blog, the CSS class name values were exactly the same as the BBC  website, which another developer from [...]

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