Robbie Williams was in Blackpool last night to switch on the famous illuminations. A crowd of over 15,000 assembled to watch the Take That star turn on the lights, which will shine for 66 nights until November 7.
The Stoke-On-Trent native told the audience he had fond memories of visiting Blackpool as a child. “I used to come here as a kid for New Years and all the way through the summer,” he said. “On the Pleasure Beach, up the Tower and in Jungle Jim’s.”
His American wife Ayda Field watched from the side of the stage, and cheered along with the crowd when Rob revealed Blackpool to be the perfect honeymoon destination.
“I thought it was the best place to take my wife on my honeymoon. She loves Blackpool. She has been on the Pleasure Beach, she has had some chips, she is loving it,” Robbie said. The couple married at Rob’s LA mansion on August 7.
The singer, whose latest single, Shame, is a duet with Gary Barlow, fielded questions about the song’s lovey-dovey video. “Yeah, Gary Barlow is my boyfriend,” he joked. “People are saying that the video is very gay, I cannot understand that.”
The festivities in Blackpool also included a ‘switch on’ concert with performances from Alesha Dixon, Olly Murs, Gabriella Cilmi and new boyband The Wanted. Robbie didn’t perform.
Quote: “Some content is available only in Polish, even after you switch the language selector to English, similar to the Diesel website. Another trend? Hopefully not.”
Unfortunately English-based sites have been doing this to the rest of the world for years. Looks like the rest of the world is just dishing it back : )
But, since many of these sites are hard to navigate and seem to want to frustrate you, having parts of the text in a language you don’t speak seems to fit. After all, it’s all about marketing and the “feel”, not usability, right? Lawlz.
Nice article. I was actually a part of our company’s website redesign and the usability research and testing we did had very interesting results.
You never really know what individuals will find confusing, or are more prone to click on until you do the testing. With that it’s a good point to find the “wrong” people to test your layouts.
The majority of the individuals who will be viewing a website are the “wrong” types in the sense that they are not designers, but they’re who the user experience is for, so catering the experience to them is a must. Nice article!
I agree to a lot of what you say here, but! Although the “content writers” will be able push content through their portals, those portals will still need to be designed. Clients will still desire a way to brand there content.
Therefore I think the content may switch from one place to another, but the need for design will still exist. More and more developers and designers tend to be multidisciplinary.