Top 5 Professions With Unprofessional Websites (Local Examples Included!)
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: business, internet
In this day and age, everybody has a website. You have a website, I have a website… even your mom probably has a website. Whether it’s just a page on Myspace or a professionally-designed web masterpiece, nearly everyone has some sort of presence on the internet.
This internet presence is especially important for businesses which often rely on their website to provide information to first-time customers. In many cases, a website is the first contact a customer has with a person or business. Thus, the website serves as a first impression–a handshake between a professional and the outside world.
Unfortunately for some, that first impression is a bad one because their websites are at the lower end of the internet food chain. Poor design, lack of information, and low search engine visibility plague the websites of many small business owners and professionals, but a few stand out as being infamous for having less than impressive cyber showings.
- Doctor. They make 80 bazillion dollars a year, and yet most physicians’ websites look like they were designed by their eight-year-olds. Then again, with the high cost of malpractice insurance, maybe an eight-year-old webmaster is all they can afford. While my own doctor’s website isn’t that bad (except when it’s broken on occasion), it could use a bit of search engine optimization because it’s ridiculously hard to find in Google search results.
- Restaurateur. National restaurant chains have some of the flashiest websites around; but when it comes to your local eatery, you’ll be lucky if it even has a website. All too often I’ll do a search for a restaurant’s site and only come up with newspaper reviews or directory listings. All I ask is for an online menu so I know what’s cookin’ and for how much. A web designer could make a serious killing in my city alone just bringing its many small restaurants into the 21st century. The Thai restaurant across the street has an excellent website with useful information that is easy to navigate, but I can’t say the same for the Japanese restaurant next door whose website hasn’t been updated in four years.
- Teacher. My wife is studying to become a teacher, so I’ll make sure she has the best darn website on the whole playground. That shouldn’t be hard considering the local competition.
- Clergy. Here’s our church’s website. It’s fairly well-designed if you can look past the giant picture of our pastor. You can check out our old parish’s website for some “just added” pictures of Easter 2004!
- Blogger. Say it ain’t so! Sadly, most providers of quality internet content couldn’t HTML their way out of a paper bag. But that’s okay because there are plenty of pre-made templates out there so that even your grandmother can blog about her yarn collection. If you look hard enough, though, you’ll find a couple bloggers who really know how to design a website.
Comment below and share your local websites that could use some professional polish. Then learn HTML and charge them $1,000 to do the job!
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tegan
January 11th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
That is one cute cat! I agree with all of your points especially the teacher websites. I end up cringing when ever I look most school websites and I’m not even that tech savy. Since the school is supposed to be teaching students these skills you’d think they’d put more effort into their websites.
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Jenn @ Frugal Upstate
February 14th, 2007 at 9:01 am
I am so totally with you on this, especially the teacher and clergy ones. My daughters school system has a website, but although you can find the school lunch menu on the calendar, you can’t find things like the last day of school for the year. Duh? Hello shouldn’t THAT be on the calendar?
And as for our church website, I’ve been hounding them for 2 years about it and finally had to just break down and take it on as my own project, as if I didn’t have enough to do. Apparently they went through the trouble of having someone design it about 3 or 4 years ago, and that was it. NEVER UPDATED IT, not once. Most of the pages say “Under Construction”. Being Episcopal (which is arguably even more hidebound than Catholic *smile*) we fear change, and I don’t think the 80 somethings in the congregation really “get” that younger folks moving into town and looking for a church might google us, take one look at the website and decide we suck without ever stepping foot in the church or even speaking to a live person.
So know anyone willing to help me design a church website
Preferrably for free?
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Teacher Interview
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
You’re completely right about schools / teachers having the most unprofessional websites! How many schools have pages of “links for students” and school calendar java applets that are completely blank? It’s terrible.
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Medical Mitten
November 8th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I can understand members of the clergy not having the most up to date websites. They probably had a middle school student from their church make their site. The others don’t have any excuses.
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sitegrinder
May 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Yeah… you have a point… schools here on out place has websites that are definitely low in over all look. Thanks for sharing this.
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July 8th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
It’s funny that i ran across this post. I was looking up a local Chinese food restaurant the other day and was horrified by the layout of their site. I was happy to actually find one but the look of it was horrible. ick!
of course, there food is absolutely amazing.
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April 27th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Thanks to the author about this article. Schools are suppose to do this teaching which they are not doing properly.
So students are lacking knowledge a lot.
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June 13th, 2010 at 1:15 am
The others don’t have any excuses.
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August 5th, 2010 at 9:14 am
People need to stop living in the stone age. All small to medium sized businesses need a good website. No one is looking in the yellow pages anymore to find local businesses. It is mainly through search engines.
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