[thelist] My company got ripped off
Chris Williams
teletwister at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 16 10:23:40 CST 2004
Brian,
You have my sympathies. When you discuss this with
corporate communications/PR folks at work (and you
should), I recommend that you reference this line that
is featured on the site.
"Taking care of your customer base is not a task that
should be entrusted to amateurs."
Chris
--- Brian Cummiskey <Brian at hondaswap.com> wrote:
> Brian's rant of the day.
>
> <rant>
> My company paid some professional firm to re-do our
> website. I work in
> the networking department there, so the web stuff
> never even crossed my
> path (its just a hobby of mine). Word around the
> office is that they
> paid $10,000 for it.
>
> It's pathetic.
>
> It sucks.
>
> It is soooooo unprofessional.
>
> The javascript date at the top links to a free
> script site source
> site... They couldn't even code their own or at the
> very least, figure
> out how to remove the copyright link.
>
> There's proprietory GoLive tags everywhere.
>
> Horrid use of a flash.
>
> CLICK HERE links, instead of linking text that means
> something.
>
> Half the people in the pictures are no longer with
> the company.... for
> over a year now.
>
> I could go on all day. See for your self.
>
> http://www.americancustomercare.com
>
> Now, it gets worse....
>
> The woman who did the site didn't know what FTP was,
> when our network
> team gave her ftp info to put it on our server. HOW
> CAN you be a
> webdesigner, and not know what FTP is? HOW?
>
> I hate golive. I hate frontpage. I hate
> dreamweaver.
>
> They have taken life out of the internet.
>
> </rant>
>
> How is it, that we struggle to make 1-2k on a full
> corprate website
> free-lancing... and yet, firms like this score 10k
> on a RE-DESIGN? And
> half-ass it at that.
>
> I just wanted to share... Had to get it off my
> chest.
>
> Please feel free to bash away at how horrid the site
> looks and is
> coded... Or how I should've never posted this to the
> list and you are
> going to forward it to my boss... Lol (please
> don't =) )
>
> I can only imagine how bad it falls apart on a mac
> or other odd browsers
> too....
>
>
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