Sun4U go into administration
Sun4U collapsed late on 11th August, stranding hundreds (BBC article explains a bit here). The website directs people to call ABTA for more info, and all looks lost.
To be honest though, looking at that website, I’d be VERY hesitant to trust them in the first place:
- It looks like a dog’s dinner: this isn’t a crime in itself, but the homepage is a complete bombsite – bad Flash animations, little in the way of content, inconsistent wording/capitalisation…it just looks crap.
- It’s been built entirely in Dreamweaver: again this isn’t a crime, but hardly the hallmark of an industry-standard website.
- This is a 12-page site (including the homepage) – and the way it’s built means it’s very un-search-friendly…yet it has managed to become Pagerank 2 (I know PR supposedly doesn’t stand for a lot these days, but still)
- Commented-out code: again, not a crime – but it’s for content that was from Easter….?
- The Google Analytics tracking code is in the header: definitely not a crime, but it’s meant to go in the footer
- No robots.txt
All in all, it looked like a bad idea from the outset in my opinion. Bye bye Sun4U.
George
George Rosier runs this blog. It's somewhere he can vent his spleen about web design, usability, SEO, and other such nonsense that will no doubt mean nothing in 5 years' time.
sun4u have ruined my summer! have had to re book accom and may not get it back, only saving grace was that the flights were with ryanair so they are safe as they were paid for directly and ola holidays were brilliant in helping me re book their number is 0800 091 1212
Only a geek would book a holiday based on the quality of a company’s web site ahahaha that being said, it did take me a long time to book tickets on ryanair, and we all know how royally awful their web site is.