Archive for December 21st, 2007

Is this an ‘amazing’ new website?


December 21st, 2007 by Sterling Hager

News releases announcing new web sites are becoming quite rare. Why? Because practically nobody cares about a new web site, really. That's why I was surprised this morning to see this release via PRWeb about a new website, and even more surprised to read such unabashedly gushing quotes from the people responsible for it. The new website is for and by 'nationally recognized Tax Lady Roni Deutch.' Here's a brief excerpt from the release:

"I am so pleased with how beautiful my new website looks. Every single page looks fresh and inviting to people looking for help with IRS tax debt relief," claims Ms. Deutch. "My web team is comprised of talented individuals who have put together an amazing new website that I am proud to associate my name with."

Well, you know I had to go there and see for myself. You can, too. Well? Hey, I'm no website expert. In my opinion it looks a lot like a lot of other websites. I don't know that it rises to the definition of 'amazing.' But guess what? Roni Deutch has a blog, and you can access it via the website. That's probably the best and more important feature of the whole development project to date, and yet there's no mention of it until paragraph nine of the news release, way down in the About Roni Lynn Deutch motherhood paragraph!

The blog's not bad. There seems to be some fascination with new cars sprinkled in among the mainstream posts, but there's fresh content about tax issues and problems, IRS news and so forth. One problem is it uses the Google blog platform which doesn't enable trackbacks, but you can leave comments. A truly amazing development team might have used WordPress perhaps?

Last comments: when was the last time you read a news release that included the word 'vibe?' Pretty hip, yes?

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