Taking a cue from Jon Hicks (www.hicksdesign.co.uk, respect), I do look for design wherever I can find it, note it, absorb it, fill up the design-tanks and hopefully the result will be more creative ideas. So when the adverts started coming up on TV here for eharmony.ca, I was encouraged (from a design perspective) to see some quite nice ideas, including the hint of a colour bar. So I thought to myself “I must go and look at the site design for inspiration”.
I went to http://eharmony.ca (note my lack of ‘www’). Lazy? A secret admirer of http://no-www.org/? Who can say — all I can say is that I did not bother with those redundant (but useful insomuch as any standard is, usually, better than a lack of a standard) three characters, ‘www’.
Anyone who has set up DNS records will know (if they can be bothered to try and remember), that you need to tell your DNS settings that you may be visited by people going to http://mylovelywebsite.pop or http://www.mylovelywebsite.pop. It’s sort of ‘Setting up my website for public access 101’.
So, I think it’s a little embarrassing for eharmony.ca to have their web presence fall flat on it’s face and groan when you type ‘eharmony.ca’ into your browser.
Here is the embarrassment in unglorious 256 colour GIF:
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[...] noticed that my Writing on eharmony.ca had been found by someone on a search engine typing ‘eharmony.ca’ and being sent to my [...]
Sat Sep 29 2007 at 9:58 pmAfter some time setup incorrectly, eharmony.ca have now corrected this error. There have been a fair few hits on this Writing, also I wrote to eharmony to kindly and politely tell them of the error.
If it is a coincidence that this has now been corrected then hurrah! — I am delighted for eharmony.ca that they found the problem and corrected it. If it is not a coincidence and it was I who alerted them to the error, then I think it would have been polite to say thank you. Oh well, never mind.
Sat Oct 13 2007 at 3:10 pm