Under Construction Rant

Posted August 25, 2005

It’s late at night and I just wanted to review one site before bed. So what do I get - a freshly submitted site with a title:

“This is my website I plan to expand on to promote my business as a ….

Well that’s really nice, but why on earth would you want anyone to see a web site that consists of only three pages:

  • Page 1 - Welcome to … website — yes that is it, nothing else on the page
  • Page 2 - goes to the hosting sites and displays a page full of assorted junk and ads and a big title RESTRICTED - ILLEGAL PAGE - wow that’s cool
  • Page 3 - starts my email client without warning since it’s not a page at all, but an email link - what a pain this guy is

I can’t type fast enough to delete this time wasting nonsense.

I doubt if this website will ever be finished but if it is ever re-submitted, the editor will see a note about this premature subbmission.

Lesson #1 - do not submit sites under construction - it will come back to haunt you

(He should thank me; if any potential clients ever saw this, they would run away as fast as I deleted it)

Categories

Editing and Reviewing, DMOZ, ODP, Open Directory Project

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