Cutting-edge designers who can’t spell

Apr 03, 2006 @ 02:56 am by

I visited a very flash website (literally made with Flash, as well as pretty looking) which looked great, but my eye was immediately drawn to:”[Company] specialises in the strategy, development and intergration of…”

Excuse me? Since when did bad spelling become acceptable for companies that want to present a good image of themselves?

It stuck out so much because clearly a lot of time, and I suppose money, had gone into the design. Could they not afford a writer, or did they not know that such a person exists? I really wonder sometimes.

The people have spoken

Mar 27, 2006 @ 11:35 am by

TradeMe has sold for $700m. But what about the future? A NZ Herald article says that the users are speaking up, and showing a bit of their collective muscle. “We are Trademe” says one user. Fairfax, welcome to the internet!