Where standards matter least when they should matter most

I’m the marketing coordinator for a company that shall remain nameless, but one of the roads I have to travel down for my job is researching technology, printing, marketing, and other companies to get things done such as going to print with marketing collateral.

More often than not, I look right to the web to see what the companies can offer and almost every single corporate site I goto looking for answers. I find ( keep in mind these are technology companies) the next worst site I’ve ever seen. Gobs of html errors, invalid CSS, impossible navigation hierarchies. It is just impossible to find what I’m looking for sometimes.

It still boggles the old mind that these companies and the people pulling the puppet strings at these fine establishments could let this go unflagging. Now not all sites have to be amazing aesthetically, but I believe that if you are promoting coding errors and using nested tables inside nested tables to relay information to your customers, you don’t deserve them.

”It is an encompassing term dealing with the knowledge of humanity’s tools and crafts.” – Wikipedia.

Therefore one would think that a ’software company’ for instance, would probably have a website that when an average user would visit, they would think to them selves, ‘this seems like a technology based company.’ Not… ‘this seems like my kid made this with Pagemaker in 7th grade and its still up on the internet? Wow hun, take a look what I found.’

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