EURid Screws Up Registry Website Relaunch

EURid relaunched its website on February 5th and screwed it up. The www.eurid.eu website was previously readable. Now it is just another entry in EURid’s catalogue of failures.
You’d think that a registry would employ proper web designers. But EURid is supporting the Open Source to such an extent that its web developers (who use black text on a dark blue background) didn’t even bother to change the meta data in the Joomla implementation:

In the Meta data the following lines are present:

meta name=“description” content=“Joomla - the dynamic portal engine and content management system”
meta name=“keywords” content=“Joomla, joomla”
meta name=“Generator” content=“Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.”

With all the millions of Euros they had extracted from Irish and UK companies for failed Sunrise 2 registrations, you’d think that EURid could employ web developers who were competent enough to change the default settings on the CMS used for the registry website.

As for the colour scheme - black text on a dark blue background? What are these guys using for a monitor? I suppose that the management of EURid know even less about web design than they do about legitimate registrars and the domain business. The sooner the European Commission strips EURid of the contract to run .eu ccTLD, the better it will be for the EU.

Tags: Irishblogs,.eu, Domains, Joomla, Web design, Eurid, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames

Written by John McCormac on February 7th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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