Thanks, Mom, But Maybe I Should Check That First...

Too funny.

Guy called me the other day and asked if I'd be interested in managing his website. I spent some time looking around the site when I was shocked to find several pages with links to a notorious porn site. Of course, being the cynical guy I am, my first thought was, "SABOTAGE!" I immediately took a screen capture and sent him an urgent email pointing out this foul deed.

He bashfully replied saying, no worries, it was just my Mom trying to help out by doing a little site maintenance. Each page contains a section for related links and Mom had misspelled a prominent sports product company's name (no, I won't tell you which one), substituting an 'i' for an 'e', when creating the link. While my prospect had removed the offending link from most of the pages, I just happened to find several that he'd overlooked.

I'm sure his Mom is a great Mom and how many of your Mom's are pitching in on the old website? But, like we used to say when I was a carpenter, "measure twice, cut once." So even if it's your mom it's a good idea to double check her & your and anybody else's work before you release it to the WORLD WIDE WEB.

Respectfully submitted,

tom.gray@gemsolv.com