Comments on: Business.hr is closing down

By: Lenart

Lenart — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:21:22 +0000

Great post! I did write about similar issues regarding slovenian site finance.net (http://formitas.si/blog/lenart-rudel/2008/02/financenet-so-res-samo-okrog-financ). I think it’s sad to see companies making web pages and turning them into banner gallery as soon as they get enough traffic. I believe there are ways of generating profit from web sites and still deliver value to users without making them suffer much. There are lots of pages where you can clearly see that they completely forgot about their users and that they main concern is generating revenue. When I see a site like this I just stop visiting them.

By: Matija

Matija — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:12:52 +0000

I used to follow business.hr sometimes in paper format, but mostly on the web. They used to have great web I may say, but when they redesigned it become bad. I even sent an e-mail to web master suggesting to remove that banner coz I wasn’t able to read site, at least not in comfortable way. I never got answer. Yes, just until recently I had 1024×768 resolution on my laptop. That was a big mistake in their marketing strategy.

Personally I consider business.hr a great newspaper because they were sharp and objective. But now, they’re leaving our market for one great (and rare for that matter) newspaper less.

By: seven

seven — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:55:17 +0000

business.hr was doomed to die when they released it. and they released it in 2007., not 2000 as you may think from Daemons post. :)

frames, SEO…? Hello?

By: blackshtef

blackshtef — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:53:30 +0000

But who would ever listen to experienced web designer, eh?

:ave:
It’s like that Make my logo bigger thing :)
of course that business manager knows more about web that experienced web designer

By: Anej

Anej — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:36:53 +0000

Well, I utterly agree with your critique. On the other hand…in case you didn’t know, there’s site of the same design in Slovenia – finance.si (well, they got the same owner, mwahaha). And I know that sales crew up there has no trouble selling that HUGE ASS banner;) And all the rest of irrelevant “content”. Yet, users still happily click and read the site, obviously (according to statistics=)
Compare http://www.soz.si/uploads/MOSS_Jesen_2008_Dosegi%20z%20opombami.pdf to
http://www.soz.si/uploads/pdf/moss_jesen_2007.pdf =)

Btw, having a blog on a black background isn’t very pleasing to your readers either=)

By: Ivan Brezak Brkan

Ivan Brezak Brkan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:45 +0000

Nice analysis. Basically, the biggest mistake is having the banner always at that position and obstructing the user’s view of the content. I thought iFrames died a decade ago. :)