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.

Wordpress 2.8.3 upgrade or downgrade of 2.8.2?

I was so impressed with the latest 2.8.2 that I had to tell the world Wordpress 2.8.2 is a masterpiece. So I just clicked on the 2.8.3 version upgrade and I did not realize and good change. Now I realize some bad changes. I want to delete a plugin and wordpress tells me that it was deleted but it’s still there. Even from FTP I’m not able to delete the plugin directory. Some plugins are deactivate and when I want to activate them Wordpress tells me that the plugin files are not found, so I want to delete the plugin but Wordpress keeps telling me that the plugin files are not found. I go to my FTP client and want to delete the plugin which I cannot. Somone plz?

Packard Bell Have No Sense Of Customer Care And English

I must share with all of you with this story with Packard Bell… I wanted to buy a cheap laptop for my wife so she can help me out with blogging and web design. Now, I found a Packard Bell on Pixmania. I simply wanted to know if the 1GB RAM in the machine is 1×1GB or 2X512MB RAM because I met such laptop where they divided the 1GB, just as my Toshiba Satellite A200 1M4. Pixmania has no contact information in the Czech site. I try to phone Pixmania UK, America, getting from them know that they can’t know this information so I have to contact the producer that is Packard Bell. Packard Bell, officially has no branch in the Czech Republic, and the specific model is available in the UK and Germany. So I phone UK, where the telephone number for international tecnical support does not work. So I phone the UK technical support team who tells me that I phone a wrong country and they need a serial number to help me out with my question. Here I got a bit angry and I said I want to buy the product so I have no serial number yet. So they advice me to contact the retailer, which is again Pixmania. I tried to call other UK retailers for the same product and they told me that I have to contact Packard Bell for this specific question. So I started emailing Packard Bell… FULL ARTICLE +

Give Your Users The Chance To Be Unsatisfied

It was an IM-History program I tested and it didn’t work. It crashed, froze, had bugs, application error, abnormal program termination etc.). Upon uninstallation certain softwares asks you the reason of dropping them. I usually don’t fill out this form because I was bugged and at the end they bug me again wit their question. I also don’t like if after uninstalling a software it opens the web browser and there gives me a “buy the full version” or survey page. It’s bothering really.

This software was different, I don’t really remember what the last screen of the uninstallation process showed but it was another feeling. It said something like “We understand if you are unsatisfied, if you want to help us describe below the reason” instead of “Reason of uninstallation:” or “Please tell us the reason why did you uninstalaled the software:”. The words you communicate with unsatisfied users tells a lot about your willingness of change. It also shows how much you really care about your real users whether they buy, download, install your product or not. And that’s a great thing.

I told them: No history was shown, if you can fix it I would register again. I’m just bugged to ask always some support team that answers after 2 weeks.

The same thing apllies to blogs, eshops etc. When your reader unsubscribes do you tell them how great it was that they once subscribed? Do you let your shoppers have a good user experience by letting them decide and go without popping up “you have some items in your basket”?

No DualCore please.

I downloaded Driver Checker to find that bugging peripheral driver that my Windows Vista asks for after plugging in my cheap but new Made-In-China bluetooth dongle. Broadcom was updating its driver so it was not available for download. I did not find mirrors. Really. It was craze. In a blog post I read that this Driver Checker could solve my problem. So to download and install. Usually I don’t read the licence of a free software but now I had the feeling to do so…

Driver Checker EULA
1.1 License Uses – Personal
1.1.1 By agreeing to the terms and conditions of this agreement, acknowledged by the actions stated above, the Licensor gives you, the Licensee, a non exclusive, non commercial, non transferable, revocable, limited license to the software for use on one personal computer, where the computer has no more than one microprocessor.

Ok, and what about new gereation machines with dual core? That is not allowed? It seems that Mr Driver Checker software engineer was not informed well about the new trends. Who understands programmers.

Wordpress 2.8.2 is a masterpiece

Not only the look but the user experience have been improved with the 2.7 version, and version 2.8 fixed most of the usability problems. I’m totally excited that I can add themes as they are zipped by uploading them just as I do with plugins. So I don’t need to bug my FTP client… Plugin installation and update became just a second in spite of the previously experienced several minutes. Some updates also failed and popped some error. I could try several times I could not delete a plugin or update, delete, deactivate etc. Now, it really became superfast and that takes away some of my headaches. Actually I can use everything very easily and WordPress became an even more handy CMS blog system. If I could change one thing, that would be the “Visit site” to replace uncerline with none, it’s so ugly when you have a nice button and it become underlined. Wordpress rocks!

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 +

Toshiba is a SCAM company!

Dear Toshiba,

I called Toshiba America at this number +18006313811 at 14:30-14:40 GMT+1 (daylight saving) and I spoke to the sales department. The saleswomen introduced herself and I introduced myself as Barnabas Nagy. I don’t remember her name but because there should be a monitoring system you could hear it back. The following conversation happened between us:
-Hi, I would like to ask some technical details about a camcorder
-Toshiba does not sell camcorders
(I was astonished because Toshiba DOES sell Camileo and so on camcorders)
-Toshiba DOES sell camcorders.
-We don’t sell camcorders. Toshiba does not sell camcorders.
-It’s a European model so you might not know but Toshiba DOES sell camcorders.
-Than phone Europe, Toshiba America does not sell camcorders. (Here I became very angry but I did speak still normally to the saleswoman)
-Ok, the problem is that you in America think that you are the center of the world…. (she interrupted me)
-We don’t think that we are the center of the world. bla. bla. bla…
-Can I please finish my sentence as a Toshiba customer?
-Yes.
-You in America think that you are the center of the world (she again interrupted me)
-You did not phone the right department, call europe, we don’t sell camcorders.
-I just wanted to finish my sentence as a Toshiba customer.
-If you don’t hang up the phone I will hang it up.
-So I just wanted to say that you in America (she hang up the phone)

This is unbelievable and miserable servis. I have Toshiba Satellite laptop and I wanted to buy Toshiba Camcorder next to my laptop but this feminist women does not even let me finish my sentence.

What I wanted to say just as  a correction is that if she says that Toshiba does not sell camcorders than she is wrong and she should be educated and listen to the customer, if she said in Toshiba America does not sell camcorders than, of course, she is right. But she did not say it 2 or 3 times only that Toshiba does not sell camcorders – that is wrong.

This feminist aggressive, uneducated, misled, stupid, women should leave te company ASAP.

The other thing is: I want to purchase Toshiba Camileo camcorder model. I was hesitating between Camileo HD and Camileo Pro HD, I phoned, USA, UK, Czech Republic, Hungary they have different informations, also there are different information on the toshiba official sites. This is miserable.

I phoned more than 10 hours, and spent at least 4USD for VOIP.

Toshiba is miserable, I will never buy again Toshiba. Toshiba is scam, fraud, phony, lie.

Barnabas Nagy
barnabasnagy.net

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.

Very bad if you can’t delete your account

You finally decided not to use the service you signed up any longer because, because… there are lots of reasons. And you finally want to delete your account but you can’t. You get angry and hot while navigating through the menu – and those who who have long and strong nerve the FAQ section – finally you find nothing. So you log out. FULL ARTICLE +

What are the WordPress subscriber benefits

Sorry for my late posting again, I had to move once again, ISP change etc. Days lasted I went through all my emails, packed out, packed in, cable out, cable in, horrible. Anyway, I’m back and that’s a good news. And you folks are awesome. You still read my articles and I realised some more subscribers to my not finished blog that gives me a push to write. Still, I was really wondering… Why on earth is good to be a subscriber, not to the RSS feed but to a WP blog.

So this is what I did, I signed up myself under barnabasnagy as a guest-subscriber and tried to look around what can I get there. Actually, I’ve set up 2 subscriber accounts already weeks ago and the only thing I found there is nude wordpress. FULL ARTICLE +

Ebay seller cheated me and now it cannot be solved

Back to June 2008 I bought on ebay a wonderful Chinese, noname 16GB pendrive because that was what I was longing for. You know, backup and so on. So I got the product quite late, though I got it. There was a little defect that the metal cover was not fitting onto the drive and it would whirl around… So I contacted the seller and he offered me replacement. I went into it, he got the pendrive quite late, but at last he got it. Then he said he sent it, and I still wait for it…. Yes, since august. I contacted ebay several times, but I was too late, I was over the 60 day protected period. So what they offered is to contact the seller. Well, sure, I contacted him thousand times on email what is going on, where’s my pendrive. No answer. Silence. So with this I did not become more clever but I got his phone number. And guess what? The phone number does not work, it speaks me some Chinese blah blah and then it says to me in English that this number is not … I don’t know the word. Anyway, this makes me angry. I lost by this some $ 30 and it’s not fun with my budget.

And yeah, I get know from ebay that the seller cancelled his account in the meantime so they can’t do much. Great.

So here is the guilty one, if someone knows about him, catch him:

E-mail:      wellcomeshop@gmail.com
User ID:     wellcome08
Name:        Man Fai Hui
City:        Lai Chi Kok
State:       Kowloon
Country:     HK
Phone:       (9)3325930

MTV plays me Britney Spears!

My apologies Mr MTV CEO I went to mtvmusic.com and it played me successfully Britney Spears – Circus Music Video. But, at that music video you did restricted me on Current! You probably give some content to everyone and some to the only race “American”. It was not funny, but Briney played well fullscreen.

The other thing I wanted to share with you guys, if there is one who reads me… that this despite the really good quality of the video Britney made me mad. Is that something like music? But really I’m musician – so called – check out lookingdoor.net What Britney does only is really Circus not more, have you heard of that “song” (they call it song) in what I don’t find and musical whatever melody or.. ok, I know sex sell well and that’s it. Right? Right? Pls be kind and answer me. Halo? Hey there!

Give automatic audio podcast to your site

What if you had a plugin you would activate and you could provide your readers the possibilities to take your article wherever they want on their mp3 players? Sounds nice right? Huh? How to make that? Well, you have the option to make as technologyreview does with a commercial audio podcasting service, namely: AudioDizer – Good news: there is a better option. It is called odiogo and it’s totally free! I’m not joking listen to my article by clicking on the “listen now” button under my title. I was very much surprised how easy it was to activate the plugin, it’s really hands on. FULL ARTICLE +

Tipd.com moderator discussion continues..

When I first emailed you, I noted that you submitted 5 stories all from your domain. I emailed you about the 2 Zemanta submissions and noticed that you had also submitted 3 more stories from your domain introducing your blog as a design blog and another submission entitled “Hello World!” (which in case you didn’t realize, both have no relevance to Business or Finance).

I sent you a polite warning to not submit your sites as such and you took this as an argument. We strive to provide good content to our users and you are clearly polluting the site with only your own submissions. 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 +

I am an abuser of Tip’d

I got a nice email from a Tip’d moderator:

Hello,

This is a friendly warning from your Tipd moderator that your submissions about Zemanta have no value and do not relate to business or finance. Please keep your submissions on topic.

We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that continually use the social news site to promote their own blog with off-topic content. Please note that we will block barnabasnagy.com completely from our system and terminate your account if the submission pattern continues.

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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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