The Knitting Fiend

Sometimes I just can’t help clicking! Admit it, if you were a mechanical engineer who writes a blog about knitting you would just have to read an email that began:

From: jacob@lawwebdesign.net
Subject: I have redesigned your website
Date: September 1, 2006 11:10:14 AM CDT
To: lucia@thedietdiary.com
Reply-To: jacob@lawwebdesign.net

Lawwebdesigns? Hmmmm…. Click.
What did it say?

I have designed a new web page for you. I have not altered your existing site; I have simply created a prototype for your review because I am confident that I can earn your business.

To view your new design, please click here

(Hyperlink not included.)

Needless to say, I clicked the link and zoomed off the a page that requested my email address and website name. I entered “The Knitting Fiend”. Quick as electrons can fly, I received an email to a URL with several proposed redesigns for my site.

Many were tasteful, looked well organized and probably meet the needs of lawfirms. That said, I think the best for my site would the the one that contained this flash banner that alternates a skull and the woman holding her head:

To see the full proposed design, visit: Lawfirmsites.com

I bet you think the fun was over? Nope!

Jacob Hiller sent me a nice email asking how I liked the designs and offering futher customization to match my specific areas of law. I could have deleted. Normally, I would have deleted. But I couldn’t resist replying:

Jacob,
They look slick. However, I’m afraid they were sort of hilarious since my site is a personal blog about knitting. I assume you got my email off some blog?

I wish you good luck, but I’m afraid I’m not in your target market,
Lucia Liljegren

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