| Chromasia |
 | A nice design for a photography blog. Not quite search engine friendly, however, and this is unfortunate becasue the site and its pictures are otherwise very good. Thew issue here is that the pactices we found here make us question how customers might be treated considering what we saw. It is Andiniaīs practice to take a look at the coding of each site that we review in order to extract meta information like almost every search engine in the world, but also to see if the website has been properly constructed, if there are hidden things considered unethical, etc. so that we donīt make the mistake of recommending questionable pages. In this case, however, our human editor found a message placed by the author on top of the met-tags, which states: "A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face" (Juvenal) I, on the other hand, have spent many, many hours teaching myself HTML, CSS, javascript and the intricacies of Movable Type - and chromasia.com is the result. So please don't steal my design or my code. That said, if you need some assistance coding your site, please ask, and I'll do what I can to help. Email me at: djn1 <<<<< at >>>>> chromasia <<<<< dot >>>>> com. So, the author is assuming that everybody that takes a peek at his coding is in fact, a stealer. Then, under that, we found the meta information that interests us for proper site categorization. but the existence of this message turned that indispensable information into irrelevant since we have to comment on this particular message: It is bad netiquette, as simple as that, and webmasters should refrain from writing such things because since most people donīt intend to steal siteīs coding or designs and whenever they feel they need a programmer they hire a professional one that has gone to a proper college or university, search engine editors consider such messages as plainly offensive for the majority. Someone trying to steal coding might feel touched by it indeed, but it is the duty of editors to take notice of such writings. Moreover: If a truly dishonest surfer, like a hacker, finds such a message he / she might feel compelled to raise to the challenge and actually attack the site when otherwise he / she wouldnīt be tempted. Our advice in this case is that if you want to hide something you should not begin by telling people that you have hidden your precious property in the first place! Plus, whenever you see that a search engine or directory would not register sites portraying "illegal or offensive material including... but not limited to..." kind of warnings, they are refering to KKK and Al-Qaida stuff but also to practices such as this one. We believe in teaching and learning and giving some advice; other less-personal search engine corporations of the utmost strategic importance for any webmaster may simply ban such sites altogether. So we strongly recommend not to play such little games, and if the author feels that someone may steal him, he should seek proper copywriting of his material, or consider taking it offline altogether. |
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