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Oh look at you spedmonk
Now you’re just posting your pad count. 
I meant padding your count post.
I meant padding your post count!
(hehehe - sorry, I won’t do that anymore)
If you want to look at an example of a pretty good non-retail ebusiness type website, check out marriott.com. I work for a division of this very large company and I think that we have some darned good web-designers on our stuff. The online reservations system is SO COOL! We can even find out if there are any rooms available on a given date at a given place for the employee discount rate.
Pretend? So’s mine. Nothing has been done to create it beyond mentioning it here. Marriott and IBM, on the other hand, exist.
:mildly insane rant:
But I suppose your prof is one of those ivory-tower types with no knowledge of nor interest in those of us at the ground floor of ecommerce and who only think a company counts if it’s on the Fortune 100, no matter how poorly it handles its web presence (see Chase Mahattan).
:/mildly insane rant:
I read your OP and thought deeply, Spedmonk/Katie. Reflection and meditation by the moon-washed lake of the floating lotus yielded this insight: damned if I know.
Can’t offer a danged thing about your real question, though some really quality bullshit came to mind about drifting fog, nice imagery about fern fronds fingering mercury-dense waters, etc.
In other words, I don’t have a danged intelligent thing to say toward your question, but offer a hearty welcome anyway. That’s the nice thing about this place: we fight ignorance but we all do it from delighfully oblique angles.
Welcome!
Veb
dropzone:
See, what we have to do is interview someone who works for a “real” company, and look at the web page and stuff, and then create our own “pretend” company modeled after the company we studied. So, while I do appreciate the offer, studying your “pretend” company isn’t really a viable option.
Sorry, I don’t have any nudie pics (not that I would post them anyway) Even if I did post something, how would you know it was me? I could post pictures of a porn star for all you know!
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JUST KIDDING
TVeblen:
That’s why this is such a great place! Thanks for the welcome!
Crunchy Frog: AM NOT!!! 
But I am.
you are what?
[sub]I gotta explain everything to this chick[/sub]
Crunchy Frog said:
Then you said:
to which I replied:
meaning I was padding my post count with a gratuitous post.
Sheesh.
DRY said:
I have always wanted to have identical twins named Shit and Shinola. (Though my ex-wife wasn’t fond of the idea, for some reason.)
Welcome aboard, spedmonk.
spedmonk, you are correct about where I work. I am in Software Group. If you’d like, feel free to email me at necros@gtemail.net.
Update!-cause you guys are just dying to know
I interviewed mouthbreather. He works for a company called XXXXXX, and even though he’s just a “lowly engineer” he was a huge help in making me understand how the system works. Thank you mouthbreather!!!
Now it’s time for me to start designing the website for my mock company, so I might need to recruit some help for that part too. Basically just opinions on the layout and stuff like that.
Thanks to everyone who offered their help to a lowly newbie
Katie
p.s. I really need a sig…any ideas?
[edited to remove company name at request of mouthbreather - ub]
Bite me, newbie.
Sorry, had to do it one more time. Give me a day or two, I’ll think of something. Or you could just stick around and wait for something to happen, like with my latest sig.
Ummm…since crisis has been averted and situations are under control, I just wanted to say “hi” from one newbie to another.
So, HI!
You’re welcome, glad I could help.