[thelist] My company got ripped off

[Chris Williams]

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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