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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / March 2006Anyone want a laugh?
During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the following site: http://www.mobilechoice.co.uk/ What I find most laughable about this site is their top sellers list...it's like something out of the arc, yet there is a statement at the top of the page saying site updated: 30/3/2006 (yeah, right! we all know how to use a simple bit of code to display the current date, don't we?) RM  SignatureFS: brand new SonyEricsson W900i (upgrade handset) see uk.adverts.telecom.mobile for details > During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the > following site: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > know how to use a simple bit of code to display the current date, don't > we?) Yebbut to be fair it does also say it's closed for refurbishment... although a holding page might be a better option! David >> During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the >> following site: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > David I may well have been pushing it at 4-5 months with my website "refurb", but what kind of refurbishment takes a couple of YEARS? (that's how old I reckon the page is from the contents of the top sellers list) RM SignatureFS: brand new SonyEricsson W900i (upgrade handset) see uk.adverts.telecom.mobile for details > During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the following > site: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > RM Can't work out if this is a Spam promo or whether we are getting the cold shoulder [of mutton]. >>During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the following >>site: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Can't work out if this is a Spam promo or whether we are getting the cold > shoulder [of mutton]. Neither. I've always had a bee in my bonnet wrt websites that publish false claims on their front pages to make themselves seem to be something that they are not...IIRC, there was discussion a while back about a site that used a random number generator for their current visitor counter. These days its common for people to use a simple current date statement in their HTML generation to make their site seem to be regularly updated when it's not - this particular site is simply a rather blatant example of that particular practice. RM Signaturewww.reestitmutton.co.uk Bringing you the best-value mobile phone contract deals in the UK Presented the way it should be...in plain English >These days its common for people to use a simple current date statement >in their HTML generation to make their site seem to be regularly updated >when it's not - this particular site is simply a rather blatant example >of that particular practice. Sometimes it isn't deliberately misleading. A website we developed (but didn't host) used to use javascript to display the file date of each page, and that showed the user when it was last updated. Then one week the hosting company changed something, and it always displayed the current date. I suspect that they were copying the files elsewhere each day, but I never got to the bottom of it. I just removed the file date code. SignatureIain the out-of-date hairydog guide to mobile phones http://www.hairydog.co.uk/cell1.html Browse now while stocks last! >> During one of my casual trawls of the internet I came across the >> following site: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Can't work out if this is a Spam promo or whether we are getting the > cold shoulder [of mutton]. I must admit Mark, I thought it was a spamming c*nt using RM's name to post with. I'm still confused now tbh. Oh well.....! SignatureNeil - www.neilmonk.com - - Change the colour to Blue to email me - |
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