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Written by Thomas Whitelock
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The group that designs and maintains the Verizon website needs to donate their paychecks to charity and do community service work on the weekends. Things like picking up trash on the side of the highway would be a good start.
I have loathed the Verizon website experience for a long time now, it is just miserable. One time I decided to email them and let them know about some problems I was having using the site. They had a form to fill out on the page, which I did, and then submitted it. Only then did I find out that the comments section only held 255 characters. So my problem was truncated to 255 characters, the rest lost. On the lighter side, I did make sure that the next form I sent them was less than 255 characters by using plenty of 4 letter words.
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Written by Thomas Whitelock
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I think that having a document that retains it's layout and formatting no matter what kind of operating system or computer is used to view it is a wonderful idea. It just makes sense that you can send out a document to other people and not have to worry it will get corrupted, well too much anyway.
A document or book in PDF format is great, I can take it with me on my flash drive and pretty much be able to read it anywhere, or I can put it on my PDA and read it whenever I feel like it. I really like the whole PDF idea.
However, something that was at one time a lean and mean program has become this bloated thing that is slow opening, slow shutting down and is always wanting to update itself in one way or another. Not to mention with every new version there are tons of new features, but the one feature I loved is gone, the hand. Used to I could drag around a document that did not fit on the screen using the hand, now I have to use the slider bars, it was so much easier the old way.
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Written by Thomas Whitelock
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Q: What do websites, and a loaf of bread have in common?
A: They get old, stale and moldy.
We as a society like change, in some ways. Most people have a hard time with personal changes that require them to leave their "comfort zone". How many of us know someone that keeps a job they really just do not like because it is easier to continue working there rather than change jobs for the better (one hopes it is better at least)? How about someone that never bothers to move from a house they have clearly outgrown because of how hard it is to pack everything away and move it?
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Written by Thomas Whitelock
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And more importantly, why should we build it for you?
Within 10 years of designing websites we have seen a lot of things change. Websites are more interactive, page layouts are more standardized, the compulsion to have a rainbow of colors has declined and the amount of animated cartoons are, thankfully, fewer and far between. The world wide web has clearly evolved into more attractive and effective tool.
However, the real jaw dropper for us is the realization that there are many companies that still do not have any presence on the web. Regularly, we hear companies tell us that they don't need a website. Seriously, the web is here to stay, so why not use it to their advantage?
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Chipotle - Delicious Food |
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Written by Thomas Whitelock
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