# I loved your corporate website! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2004, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947 "2004-12-15T09:54:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/21 "2004-12-15T18:22:15Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Well, if you want a POS corporate website that runs useless Flash animations (and you MUST have the latest version of Flash to access the site) > > [look no further](http://www.zaxbys.com). > > A LOT of corporate websites are like this. I’m afraids that ignorance is winning out there … That gramatically-incorrect paragraph on the home page - frankly, it’s kind of frightening. “Mind-bendingly good chicken”? “Zalads”? Shouting at Grandma for bogarting the wings? Okay, looking at more of the site - it appears that they really like sentence fragments. Bottom line - I give this site two thumbs way down. It sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/22 "2004-12-15T18:46:50Z")
> [@matt](#): > > I’m afraid I was a bit naughty and gave “fuckoff@cocksucker.com” as an email address. Now, **matt** , that was rather inconsiderate. Think of poor [fuckoff@cocksucker.com](mailto:fuckoff@cocksucker.com)! Now they’re going to get all kinds of spam on their account! ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/23 "2004-12-15T18:51:32Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > Now, **matt** , that was rather inconsiderate. Think of poor [fuckoff@cocksucker.com](mailto:fuckoff@cocksucker.com)! Now they’re going to get all kinds of spam on their account! Well, now you’ve done it, they’re sure to once you posted their email address _on a public message board_. I bet some of it might even be… porn. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/24 "2004-12-15T19:00:14Z")
> [@Shade](#): > > Well, now you’ve done it, they’re sure to once you posted their email address _on a public message board_. I bet some of it might even be… porn. Probably not as much as [email@address.com](mailto:email@address.com) gets. ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/25 "2004-12-15T19:28:53Z")
[http://webpagesthatsuck.com/](http://webpagesthatsuck.com/) is always good for a laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/26 "2004-12-15T21:52:48Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Well, if you want a POS corporate website that runs useless Flash animations (and you MUST have the latest version of Flash to access the site) > > [look no further](http://www.zaxbys.com). > > A LOT of corporate websites are like this. I’m afraids that ignorance is winning out there … _hides in fear, trembling_ Yikes. I had a web design class - I don’t know what would have happened if someone committed (two t’s?) the cardinal sin of using flash. We even had our own praise. If a website was good, it was “sterile”. Clean, got all the needed info - few, if any, extras - dialup friendly. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/27 "2004-12-16T08:56:11Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Oh brilliant. And right on their front page, is a photo displayed smaller than its actual size. I didn’t even notice that! What got to me was that they purport to sell man-portable test equipment, but you have to fill a form out to find such footling details as dimensions, weight, power supply… ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/28 "2004-12-16T11:21:03Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Probably not as much as [email@address.com](mailto:email@address.com) gets. Some poor dude probably grabbed that one early in internet history and thought he was _so_ clever… ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/29 "2004-12-16T13:11:19Z")
**matt** you must have been at the website I was earlier today because I had a similar experience. I was searching for some information on a 24 port patch panel we needed to do some CAT6 terminations. I went to the manufacturer’s site and used their search function. Now I know they sell these things because I have a similar one sitting on my desk right now and my vendor wants to know how many of these items from this manufacturer I want. I want to confirm the part number so that my vendor sends me the right parts (with a month and a half delivery time to the desert this is kind of important). Okay, I do the search. 300 hits - just fricken lovely. I do a quick scan of the search results…hmmm, I didn’t know they sold switches and servers and routers. Well you learn something new every day…Yet I see no mention of what I am looking for. I look inside a couple of the search results. Nope, don’t see what I am looking for there either. After a couple of look sees I start to get suspicious. I do a search inside the links for the keywords I used. I found port most of the time, 24 some of the time, and patch/panel only a few of the times. Never all at once. Apparently this firm does not manufacture 24 port patch panels even though I can see their name on the one sitting next to me and my vendor is willing to sell me both the 24 port and 48 port models. I end up doing a google search to find the item in question and end up going to a place like [www.Isellshitthatfelloffthebackofatruck.com](http://www.Isellshitthatfelloffthebackofatruck.com) for the part number. This isn’t the first time for this. I have a part and part number for an electrical break out box right off the box itself. I go the manufacturer’s site. I do a search and find nothing. It is the number right on the box! What other purpose could you have to put a number on the damn thing if you don’t want me to use it to order another one?! Stupid, stupid. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947/30 "2004-12-16T14:24:12Z")
Heh! That’s nothing. This is the website for the best-selling beer here (over 95% of the market). They have unlimited resources and yet managed to have the suckiest website ever. I guess that whoever was in charge of approving it has no frigging idea what the internet is all about. Feast your eyes on this: [http://www.presidente.com.do](http://www.presidente.com.do) (to enter you must type in your birth date, but the geniuses made it easy to skip that by just going to [http://www.presidente.com.do/intro.htm](http://www.presidente.com.do/intro.htm)). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loved-your-corporate-website/279947.md?page=1)