Why is There So Much Crap Online
I don’t pretend to have all the answers and I’ve dropped my fair share of online bollocks. Having been online since the blink tag was cool I’ve seen all kinds of fads come and go, some of them stuck some didn’t.
One thing that’s always existed is the cheap website. Built by people who don’t know what they are doing, for people who don’t know what they need. Billions must have been wasted on ill conceived sites, doomed to failure before their first title element had been written, or not as is often the case.
There seems to be an endless stream of people with big ideas for websites that are going to make them a million. The common denominator is they only want to spend a few hundred pounds building it. Equally, there is an endless stream of trick developers who are only too happy to take their money, no doubt with a promise of online success.
As the online world becomes ever more noisy the need to spend money to succeed online will increase. Have a go heroes will increasingly fail, fake developers will fall by the wayside and the snake oil salesmen will pack their bags and look for easy money elsewhere.
How do I know this? I don’t, it’s just a feeling 
TTFN
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It\’s obvious a slimming down on the way. But the focused and the talented clear thinkers are always going to be ahead of the game.
But the templated four page web site has it\’s place and as more people get educated the snake oil becomes less attractive.
We\’re all part of the process and as we push microblogging forwards by using it, the masses are signing up on FaceBook, Myspace and Bebo.
I\’m trying to cheer you up here, there is crap in the world and online but you are fan of the web. You must be. You must have once seen a reason why it was worth getting involved?
As we help it grow and workflows improve it is helping people connect. That must be for the good?
Must it not?
Yup, agreed. We are out the door with work so I’m not so much complaining, just pissed off at how such an amazing industry has so many chancers and blaggers. They kind of devalue the whole thing for me.
I happened across a site earlier, I know the person who has set it up and I know he doesn’t know his arse from his elbow yet he’s now a web developer……apparently.
I know I shouldn’t give a toss but I do
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