Careful What You Put On Your Site
December 23rd, 2008 | by Conrad Walton |Just a reminder that what you put on your site will be forever available. Hardware wears out, but data is forever. Apparently Rick Warren’s church changed their web site in the midst of criticism, but Google remembers the old version in its’ cache.
So Rick Warren pulled the anti-gay language from his church Web site. The site used to explicitly ban gays from membership in the church. — Now the offending language is gone, but you can still find the anti-gay language via Google’s cache.
Read the entire article at Rick Warren pulls anti-gay language from his Web site (John Aravosis/AMERICAblog News) – Examiner.com
Apparently Rick Warren's church changed their web site in the midst of criticism, but Google remembers the old version in its' cache.
We don’t know if this was a staff person acting on their own to polish the web site or if it was a directive from Rick himself. That question points out that the owner or head of an organization should be aware of what goes on the web site.
Mistakes happen. Change occur. A leader can’t always be aware of what is going on in the organization. When something like this happens, you better come out and explain it right away. The truth will always come out (except about the Kennedy assassination…)
People will always forgive if you tell them the truth. They will never forgive a cover up. Compare Nixon with Clinton.
I worked with a designer once who was playing around and used monkey heads instead of human heads on some presentation comps that were to be presented to a client. It was a joke and he would change them before the presentation. You know what happened.
A developer was coding a site once and had some external links on it. He didn’t know exactly what the correct URL was, so, as a place marker, he added the tag as <a href=”xxx”>. When the client reviewed the site, they clicked on one of those links.
What does your browser do when you don’t complete a URL? It adds a “www.” to the beginning and a “.com” to the end and tries to go there. What do you suppose the client saw on the site at “www.xxx.com”?
