The website I used to look after

I just went along to one of the old websites I used to take care of......The
one where I told the owner to shove his job up his arse for being such a
twat.....

Anyway, he's got someone else working on the site now, and they've changed
th edesign to a highly cluttered and confused layout.....There's hundreds of
dead links, and not a single product image displays......Looks like the
working of some young lad....You know how it is that everyone's nephew makes
great websites......

Anyway, the thing that made me howl with laughter was when I clicked on his
"Report An Error" link.......It didn't work......It threw up a 404.....

I wonder if this was intended as a highly ironic joke to keep his customers
amused while they surf his site, or if it's a genuine error.....And if it's
a genuine error, how does one report it?......

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Fat Sam wrote:

 > I just went along to one of the old websites I used to take care of......The
 > one where I told the owner to shove his job up his arse for being such a
 > twat.....
 >
 > Anyway, he's got someone else working on the site now, and they've changed
 > th edesign to a highly cluttered and confused layout.....There's hundreds of
 > dead links, and not a single product image displays......Looks like the
 > working of some young lad....You know how it is that everyone's nephew makes
 > great websites......
 >
 > Anyway, the thing that made me howl with laughter was when I clicked on his
 > "Report An Error" link.......It didn't work......It threw up a 404.....
 >
 > I wonder if this was intended as a highly ironic joke to keep his customers
 > amused while they surf his site, or if it's a genuine error.....And if it's
 > a genuine error, how does one report it?......
 >

I have a similar story. I joined a local organization, and when they asked me if I could help I
volunteered to rewrite their site -- which at the time was basically a 1024x768 image someone threw
together with image maps for links on Geocities. Terrible site.

I spent about two weekends working on it, no one in the group could make-up their mind how they
wanted it to look so I was updating and changing things all the time. After about 6 months of
farting with it I pulled myself from the group, but the final site IMO looked great and was very
functional. That was 2 years ago, and I noticed about 2 months ago they totally changed the site.
Like your example they must have some kid writing it as it's terrible. I had a nice logo I created
that's now stretched out of proportion on the top of the entire page. Many links are 404 or just
programmed incorrectly. They also tried to rework most of my code as much of it is commented out in
the source.

What's bad is my site looked 10x better then what they have now... but they wanted a pro-level site
for something I volunteered to do. Not worth the hassle. I only planned on spending maybe 6-8
hours writing the site and maybe one hour a month with updates. The 6 months I maintained the site
I spent probably 15/hours a month.

I do write websites for non-profit companies or 'in memory of' websites often, and generally a thank
you or some homemade cookies are payment enough Anyone else do this??? Just curious.

Take care,

Alex.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->