Time for a bit of editorializing. You may wonder why your product is not listed here. The most likely cause is that I simply didn't find it when I was doing my searches. Heck, my own company didn't even show up in a web search for "Printed Circuit Boards" and that is one of the things with which we deal the most. I'm going to have to talk to our webmaster about that....

However, there were several companies (that shall go nameless) that had problems with their web site such as:

Their web site could not be found even though the search engine returned a link to their product.

"HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy", on July 5th, where (in the United States) the majority of companies are closed for the Independence Day. It was a U.S. company by the way.

Color schemes that where impossible to read, like black text on a black background.

Frames where the entire web site appeared as one line at the bottom of the screen and all other frames were empty.

Pages of nothing but pictures, some quite large and time consuming for me to load, that provided no real meat about what the company could do for me.

Sites that asked a intrusive number of questions. Or, after I filled out the long questionnaire my system crashed. This wasted my time before I could find out what they could do for me.

Links on their own site to their own site did not work.

They used Java or JavaScript or required some type of plug-in just to show me the home page. My machine doesn't do Java or JavaScript because I don't trust such files from web sites that I know nothing about, and when I have tried them they crash more than they run. Also I need my hard disk space for my own files, not to hold theirs. Fancy stuff like this is fine when it can be asked for with a simple click of a link. It should not be a requirement to find out the basics about your company and product.

I hope you don't see yourself in any of those examples....

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