TaylorMade

Back in the year 2000 I began to take an interest in web development. I had a friend who I considered a guru on the subject that began teaching me. So off I went with my frames and javascript rollovers and created my first website dedicated to my fantasy football team, Leyton Orient.

As I grew in confidence I decided this was perhaps something that would earn me a little cash on the side. And so my mentor and I started to build on acquiweb.com as our little business. In order to build a portfolio I decided I would build a site about the town I grew up in, Comber. So off I went to the local library, gathered as much info as I could and in a few months Welcome to Comber appeared. Of course what you see now wasn’t what it started off like. Oh no, this was the 00’s and I was having my tiled background, frames, java drop down menu, comic sans fonts et al! Anyway, over time I maintained the site as a bit of a hobby until last year I closed it, despite the huge number of visitors, due to lack of funding and general interest/support.

From and since that project I’ve always had a keen interest on any website local businesses may launch. Despite many efforts to drum up business in the local community I’ve never had any luck with it seems owners preferring to have their uncle, nephew, dog next door building their sites for them.

Last night I was coming through the town when a rather flash Subaru car caught my eye. I thought, that’s nice but what made me look twice was the rather stylish advertising over the drivers door for www.comberframing.co.uk. My immediate thought was oh no, please don’t have a nice car, cool advert but a crap website. Having just looked at the website my fears have not been allayed. How I wish I had a taken a photo because now all I can think is that poor car has been vandalised, what did it do to deserve that?!

Morale of the story is, if you’re going to have flash advertising please make sure your site isn’t a let down!