Following up on an old article on this, where I pointed out the “issues” I had with .net’s e-commerce challenge… (read the original article<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Recently I got an email from Phil (www.branchesdesign.co.uk<\/a>) about the write up we did, and largely he agrees with what we said. He also pointed out some things we missed – but generally it supported the “concern” that the software match off was a bit biased.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

I found your site whilst looking through my stats and found you linking to the .Net demo site we did for Olivers Organics using ‘out of the box Actinic’. I have to agree with you whole-heartedly. The so- called panel of ‘experts’ at .Net just… wasn’t! I don’t understand why they just didn’t have a wander outside their offices and grab 10 people off the street to have a review session.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I couldn’t agree more. That would have been a MUCH better idea, and really would have actually provided some insight for other developers.<\/p>\n

Whilst I agree that Hannah’s {the “winning” entry} design was very nice indeed, it did appear as though some of these ‘experts’ didn’t even look at all of the sites in much detail. For instance, on ours a reviewer said there was no special offer on the home page. In the screen grab accompanying the review it can be seen! Oh dear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The winning web site was evry nice – we said that the first time round, although on subsequent comparisons I am not really still sure it deserved to win. I had missed the special offer thing – but it is a good example of the problem with using industry “experts” to review a site.<\/p>\n

.Net’s credibility, unfortunately, took a bit of a nose-dive in my estimations. Still, we haven’t done too badly out of it with lots of hits to the Organics site… c’est la vie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, I cant really say I ever gave .net much “credibility” as far as its experiments go (it could have a whole site of bad science…) \ud83d\ude42 It is good that it has generated traffic – the organics website (http:\/\/www.branchesdesign.co.uk\/oliversorganics\/<\/a>) is very good, as is the designers site – www.branchesdesign.co.uk<\/a>. It gives a feeling of “Cosmic Justice” to think that, despite the poor structure of .net’s code-off the entrants are getting some reward!<\/p>\n

On an unfortunate note, this month’s .net magazine shows they refuse to learn from their mistakes and have set aside the best part of six pages for a “bad science” special. The article is about how a website has 50 miliseconds to make an impact… Now, I am sure .net are just faithfully repeating a research abstract but they should know better. Without going into too much detail about how this article is really not much more than a “filler”, I will highlight one question – when does the time start? From when you click a link to when the page renders is going to be about 100 times longer than that – even for a well optimised page on a LAN. It is an example of a farcial headline grabbing statement, which then descends into a mediocre peice about web design.<\/p>\n

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