A friend got another call from a web design company today. This time they are claiming that that a government scheme is there to help companies with websites.<\/p>\n
For \u00a3149 per year they can make a site with a shop. A quick scan of their site shows that that package is \u00a3199 per year. The \u00a3149 one is aimed at people with no website at all. On the phone the A quick browse round their site was quite telling. News from 2007 (we are a popular company, see this non-existant report that you would have to pay for anyway), a blog (link dead) and vacancies. The vacancies at these places is always interesting, multiple telesales positions, 1 web developer position. The web developer ad language is amateurish at best, not what you would expect from a really big web design company which has been going for years.<\/p>\n A search on the company finds almost no mention of them anywhere, not helped by their name being made of two common words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A friend got another call from a web design company today. This time they are claiming that that a government scheme is there to help companies with websites. For \u00a3149 per year they can make a site with a shop. A quick scan of their site shows that that package is \u00a3199 per year. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,3,51],"tags":[281,405],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-random","category-rant","tag-scam","tag-web-design"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Web Consultant<\/q> (sales rep) also asked her what their website address was. Nice research there bub. A quick search for the number they were calling very quickly shows that.<\/p>\n