Someone mentioned this site to me this morning. It’s very handy when searching for hotels all over the world.
The system itself searches the big hotel sites such as booking.com, hotels.com, lastminute.com and expedia.com, etc etc.
So if you are looking for a hotel (that’s not in New York – use www.visitnewyork.ie for that 
) use www.hotelscombined.com
I love coming across really cool web designs. And here’s my favourite one of a long time: www.madfrogdesigns.com
Excellent design with clever use of graphics and simplistic effects.
Tutorial9 is a great site for those artistic people amoung us. It has a huge amount of Photoshop tutorials for you to browse through and improve your design skills. It also has tutorials on blogging and photography.
Overall it’s a nice looking site with some really good information.
My “coolest site of the week” section is becoming more of a biased pimp of our clients sites, but it’s my blog and I’ll do what I want (unless no-one visits it anymore I guess!).
When I have more time to focus on other sites I will, but for now this is another shameless plug for a new website we developed on behalf of DIY Travel Limited.
Their new site www.visitnewyork.ie was lauched today with little hype, but I’m sure the guys will be planning something soon to get this site out to the mainstream.
The site is aimed at the all those Irish travellers who love to go shopping in the US every now and then. It features a great little “Shopping Guide” system that allows you to pick from a host of shops, restaurants and nightlife destinations in New York City.
Ignoring the fact that you can book from over 150 hotels, you can also book your day tours from the system too.
The guys will be giving away some great deals on their hotel bookings over the coming months, so tune in now and often to avail of these great offers.
Go have a look now even, you might be pleasantly surprised at some of the hotels on offer!
This post is a little bit biased since we (www.2bscene.ie) designed and developed it. But none the less I think it’s a good looking site with good potential. Started by two young guys from Cork, www.hobeze.com is the newest social networking website on the Internet.
Currently still in beta mode (so it could be a little buggy) Hobeze (play on the word ‘hobbies’) allows anyone to register for free and meet and socialise with likeminded people based on what your favourite past time or hobby might be.
So what makes this site better than anything else out there? Well the fact that it’s hobby based, means you can meet new friends that are simply just into the same thing as you. Features are similar to the big boys in the social networking scene, with comments, photo galleries etc all available.
So don’t hang around – go in and have a look!
From a design point of view, it’s not very inspiring. However the content is great. Get recipes and video instructions on how you can make homemade versions of things like Mars Bars, Big Macs and even Coca-Cola. Some recipes are free, while others have a nominal fee.
Check out the site for yourself! www.topsecretrecipes.com
My choice for website of the week this week is Piclens – www.piclens.com
Not only is it a great looking website, it also has an excellent web app free to download.
The application instantly transforms your browser (Safari or FireFox only) into a slideshow experience when viewing sites like Flickr, Google Images, Bebo, Facebook etc. It’s a great little tool to have in your web surfing tool box!
Spurred on by Michele Neylon’s new www.coolsites.ie – I’ve decided to do something that I’ve wanted to do for quite sometime. And that is exactly what Michele is doing, except not as frequently (there’s no way I could do one a day! Fair play to you man!).
So for now I’ll be trying to review at least one Cool Website a week. My cool websites will be based on design, innovation, marketing excellence or simply just a bloody damn good website.
I’ll also create a “worst websites of the week” section, which will be for utterly terrible websites!
So to get things started… here’s my first installment for the coolest site of the week…
www.puneetsakhuja.com
Just a nice site from Dubai web designer – Puneet Sakhuja
And the worst site of the week?
www.electricpicnic.ie
Well just back from the great weekend there, but the website is absolutely terrible. The thing that annoys me most is the ridiculous navigation and the poorly informative information.
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