Why this guy hates my site?

I’ve just received a message from my online form:

Message: * stop stroking your penile ego, your article is ill considered and ill conceived, it reveals a lack of thought, experience, knowledge, authority and interest. your website is s*ite, user-oppressive and darned boring. As if the internet doesnt have enough s*ite on it already, articles like yours just add to the ever growing pile of c*ap online. Either sharpen up or SHUT UP! Anon.

Which article does he speak about? I know that there people without mind but here I really did not write about any conspiracy to be blown off. Anyway, thanks for the feedback Anon, you rock! LOL

People have garbage websites but they have already a designer

And of course they are satisfied. Why? Because those garbage computer literate guys dare to call themselves designers. Not everyone who knows what is a patch cable or HTML code is a web designer. People are scammed all the time and they believe they got the best service possible for the lowest price. Oh yes, SEO, CMS and everything included but real design and style. Sure it is a start and I had customers who realized that the friend who made the website for free might be not the best bet. So they came to me and they were satisfied. I did not make any SEO, optimization or any extra. All I did is a good quality website with style. And voila, the business reported that sales grew. No SEO, no optimization, no additional ideas and function. Pure professional design. Anyway, I hope these made up designer will die out so we can have a place once. No longer I want to pay for quality leads.

Imagine, I just registered at a uk website where people ask for qualified web designers. There were some good prices. People with £4000 budget. That’s not a bad deal. I went into one and bough a contact, event planner website. Okay, I phone the lady, she doies not take it. I emailed her and no answer. After some days I could phone her but she was busy. Then I got an email saying that she got a better offer. She had £4000-4900 budget, so I bid £4000. Guess how much did the other guy offered? £599… I told her that I’m not sure she will get what she wants but I got no answer to that email. That lead, to buy the contact information of the lady cost me £25. Craze.

Oh, yes and I made cold calling as well. People are satisfied with what they have and sometimes even hang up the phone when I mentioned the mythical word “web site” or “web design”. Oh yes, these gangster “web designers” have made the industry so much down, I don’t even know what to say. I tried to apply for jobs without success.

The cool thing is that I have still a laptop and internet. So that’s fine because I can blog and I love to blog even though sometimes not really. Anyway, I don’t need to be bugged by stupid people any longer. Hope it will work out. And yes next to this, I will open a model site and take pictures. Yeah, models are nice faces and I will enjoy taking photos of them and getting them some jobs.

So things go fine, UX and usability still rock!

No web design, no more

It seems my web design career has just ended after endless tries to get customers, and to get my customers pay. I arrived in the UK, settled down in Luton with mixed cultures in the city and within 2 month I got 4 people to work for and none of them paid. I’m not sure how it’s gonna go further but it seems ver deep. I mean the whole. I just work and work and got nothing but stupid people. People say they can’t afford my services, then I go down with my prices, sign the contract, finish the work and they do not want to pay saying that the website is not done. All right then. I look for other ways to earn because this not only pulls me down but does not give me any money. I have 4 small claims that will probaly go to court. I have enough. I am here fully blogging. Dear folks, you who liked me write here. Here I am, I am writing to you. I still think I have a good sense of usuability, user experience, and business. So I will write on these topics next to web. See you.

New Google AdWords interface

Announced today some hours ago, Google  has updated their AdWords interface. Just checked it out and it seems that the search engine try to standardize its product interfaces goes on well. Still a bit awkward Google Analytics-like chart but the design is all right and nice. It’s a nice update from the old-google-like interface style to a new flashy user experience. While in Google Analytics they successfully implemented flash charts to glitter your eyes, AdWords Beta comes with an image based chart. No bubbles at dates, only a straightforward vertical line to show you what you campaign has reached at a time. Interesting to see the same concept in a rather CSS-like design. It seems though that the Ajax sidebar yet needs some correction as it strangely stretches while scrolling up and down. Usability 5*, Accessibility 5*  User Experience 4* Design 4*. FULL ARTICLE +

YouTube turns to green for St Patrick’s day

St Patrick’s day is everything Irsih and everything green and YouTube to it’s common habit changed it’s logo to reflect that idea. I don’t like this catholic stupidism, but I understand now why the logo turned to green (See YouTube logo turns to green – fool me once).

Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy’s Day or simply Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by the those of Irish descent and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually in New Zealand, Australia, and North America). Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink (such as Irish stout, Irish Whiskey or Irish Cream) and attending parades. – Wikipedia

That’s the common culture, the common devil. Just check YouTube.com and you’ll see.

YouTube logo turns to green – fool me once

I thought it’s just because of the video content I was watching: “Bush’s ten top moments”… Shame on you… But then the second video did not fool me so no shame on me please. This YouTube logo is really green and I don’t know why. Is someone out there who knows why?

Anyways, shame on YouTube because it’s really fool to have a green logo and a red favicon. Webmaster at youtube.com? Hope they change it because it really bugs me. It’s awful to see.

I wanted to check if there is a “green day” today or something but I rather gave up remembering the band Green Day. So I just googled “earth day”, which query gave me the date 22 April but no 17 March.

So dear and clever designers prompt me what on earth is going on on the earth because I don’t get it.

Some design news from me – plugins and such garbage

I have just tried out sweetcorn, All in One SEO Pack, SEO Smart Links, WP-Cumulus and they do nothing. I’m not a freebee in WordPress but I really could not make them work. Sure, sweetcorn is not a wp plugin and I did not try to use it as such. The other’s are and I find no sense in using them. Just to let know you. So I deleted them. The other plugin that basically bugs me is HelloDolly. Why is it included in Wordpress by default? What sense does it make? So I deleted hellodolly because I found the plugin directory…

Now, I’m trying some snaphot plugin and just a minute… They do nothing, I activated them and refreshed the site but nothing. FULL ARTICLE +

What if a nuclear bomb is dropped in your city, will you feel it?

I found this great google map where you can try out which bomb would which kind of damage. There is 2 more App where you can calculate the damage one is built by FAS: link, the other one is by the CSS expert Eric Meyer: link – this one is quite advanced. But the Carlos Labs Ground Zero production was the ultimate source I was stucked by so here it is:

iframe has gone… bug of WP, let the 2 link be enough FULL ARTICLE +

Wordpress 2.7 is not bad

By the way I wanted to drop some lines about the latest WordPress upgrade. First time I installed it I felt I’m using a platform I’ve never used. I felt chaos, the buttons looked ugly, some still do. So then I downgraded, I had to find the old version at oldapps.com… No matter, I gave it another chance when I launched barnabasnagy.net and installed the newest stable version 2.7 and after a while I started liking it. But really it’s not as bad as it seemed, I had to switch to blue scheme from the default gray and it was already better. FULL ARTICLE +

Do you know the site by it’s logo?

This great quiz asks you this, how visually do you remember the names of the sites or services you use. In fact, we all have certain visual memory by what we associate things in the world such as websites. I got score 20/30 but I must say for my sake that only 1 or 2 I could not guess though logos were known to me, the rest of the services are mainly unknown for me. So have a check of your knowledge: How Web 2 are you?

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Multi-touch Screen really rocks!

First I was really suspicious to see the new brilliance of future as they call it, the touch screen. But as I said yesterday in my post I was keen on getting know what on earth is so good on these devices. So I read and read, one article after the other praising how great touch screens are. I don’t swallow things easily so I read and read on technologyreview better and better articles until I found this one: Touch Screens for Many Fingers and saw the recommended videos. Those video’s really made me amazed, I saw before my eyes the “Minority Report” movie in real and much more. I liked this real one even better, without movie effects and scenes. Simple and clean technology speaks for it’s own.

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Back to touch screen

It’s really not as easy to keep up-to-date. There are so many things to write about I don’t know where to start. Do you share this problem? Do you have similar

The ugliest google logo ever made in history

Now, as I launched google, the day dec 5 (xmas) welcomed me with this logo. I don’t only think it’s the worst google-made logo ever, but probably one of the worst in history as well. It really makes me rethink what kind of designers are working over there in Google inc. I saw some good ideas and some moderate ones from the top search engine but this one really rocks them all. For one day I try not to say that google is the top-search engine. Most probably I’m not gonna even use it today. It’s ugly, without good idea and sense. I hope it will be tomorrow soon in order that I can use my usual helpful google. Happy holidays! FULL ARTICLE +

Hello world!

This is my first post and I wanted to tell you what I’m going to write about on this blog and first of all, why did I started it. I started this blog because on the blogs I have I feel a bit imprisoned to the topic of the blog, so I wanted to at least express myself in a variety of areas of life. Mostly in web design, media, graphics and such. I’m driving an official design showcase site that is well user experience and sales centered but I feel inappropriate to write there about my sometimes hardship with coding, debugging, “begging” for programming help and such. FULL ARTICLE +