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Did anyone click the link to gaze on the vendor's beautiful website? http://www.cnciweb.com/index.html http://www.cnciweb.com/index.html

thedancollins 8y ago
Where is the "e-mail message going around the globe" gif and the "made in FrontPage '95" banner?
- pavel_lishin 8y ago
  Don't forget "under construction", and the hand exploding out of the page through torn paper.
  - bitwize 8y ago
    Or the "Uniracers arrow".
mipmap04 8y ago
I bet it's super reliable.
bena 8y ago
"Custom programming is also available in most of the latest languages including Lotus Notes, Access, Visual Basic.NET and C++." "We had a guy who installed Visual C++ by mistake once"
rayiner 8y ago
Still better than Engadget's website.
pavel_lishin 8y ago
Hey, if their major selling point is being able to support a system that the police department has been using for 20 years, that website looks just fine.
- autoexec 8y ago
  Honestly it loads fast, looks clean and has all the info I would need from them. I can't complain. Source says it was built using Trellix Site Builder. I'd rather have sites like this than stuff full of bloated JS frameworks and trackers.
  - matzy 8y ago
    Lmao they have a different font and text color on every single page, what are you talking about? It looks like absolute, pure garbage. I would never want that to be my company website if I was a CEO, even if my company did just support systems that are 20+ years out of date. Honestly, the more I look at this, this may be the worst website I have seen in quite a few years. I can't believe this is a currently-existing tech company.
    - pavel_lishin 8y ago
      That's like refusing to work with a dentist because he drives a beat up old car, or with a mechanic who's got crooked teeth. What does the ability to create a "modern" website have to do with their ability to maintain a legacy database?
      - airstrike 8y ago
        Because to most people appearances matter and that website (or a beat up old car) doesn't speak to them having their proverbial shit together. Maybe that's not your case, but I wager that's true for the average person and therefore to the average consumer. The HN audience is probably strongly correlated with the minority of people who think appearances doesn't matter as long as it gets the job done. Please note that I'm not saying one of these outlooks is better than the other. I'm just saying most people care about appearance for better or worse.
bdcravens 8y ago
Not the prettiest, but nice and fast, and no Javascript. Nice to know I don't need the browser to process an entire framework just to load an h1 tag.
- acdha 8y ago
  Yeah, 0.3 seconds to render is less time than it usually takes just to load and parse React: http://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180809_58_c87086ddc494c13692d08ae04a79ac1a-r:1-c:0 http://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180809_58...
NDizzle 8y ago
Still up and working just fine with HN clicking on it all day long. I'll take it!
steego 8y ago
Check out this Computer Science Professor's website! https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ And I'm supposed to use this guy's typesetting program?
lowercased 8y ago
The profile page - http://www.cnciweb.com/id2.html http://www.cnciweb.com/id2.html - indicates support for Windows XP, CDROM, DOS, multimedia, but no mention of Notes. How can we be sure they're qualified?

thedancollins 8y ago

Where is the "e-mail message going around the globe" gif and the "made in FrontPage '95" banner?

pavel_lishin 8y ago
Don't forget "under construction", and the hand exploding out of the page through torn paper.
- bitwize 8y ago
  Or the "Uniracers arrow".

mipmap04 8y ago

I bet it's super reliable.

bena 8y ago

"Custom programming is also available in most of the latest languages including Lotus Notes, Access, Visual Basic.NET and C++." "We had a guy who installed Visual C++ by mistake once"

rayiner 8y ago

Still better than Engadget's website.

pavel_lishin 8y ago

Hey, if their major selling point is being able to support a system that the police department has been using for 20 years, that website looks just fine.

autoexec 8y ago
Honestly it loads fast, looks clean and has all the info I would need from them. I can't complain. Source says it was built using Trellix Site Builder. I'd rather have sites like this than stuff full of bloated JS frameworks and trackers.
- matzy 8y ago
  Lmao they have a different font and text color on every single page, what are you talking about? It looks like absolute, pure garbage. I would never want that to be my company website if I was a CEO, even if my company did just support systems that are 20+ years out of date. Honestly, the more I look at this, this may be the worst website I have seen in quite a few years. I can't believe this is a currently-existing tech company.
  - pavel_lishin 8y ago
    That's like refusing to work with a dentist because he drives a beat up old car, or with a mechanic who's got crooked teeth. What does the ability to create a "modern" website have to do with their ability to maintain a legacy database?
    - airstrike 8y ago
      Because to most people appearances matter and that website (or a beat up old car) doesn't speak to them having their proverbial shit together. Maybe that's not your case, but I wager that's true for the average person and therefore to the average consumer. The HN audience is probably strongly correlated with the minority of people who think appearances doesn't matter as long as it gets the job done. Please note that I'm not saying one of these outlooks is better than the other. I'm just saying most people care about appearance for better or worse.

bdcravens 8y ago

Not the prettiest, but nice and fast, and no Javascript. Nice to know I don't need the browser to process an entire framework just to load an h1 tag.

acdha 8y ago
Yeah, 0.3 seconds to render is less time than it usually takes just to load and parse React: http://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180809_58_c87086ddc494c13692d08ae04a79ac1a-r:1-c:0 http://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180809_58...

NDizzle 8y ago

Still up and working just fine with HN clicking on it all day long. I'll take it!

steego 8y ago

Check out this Computer Science Professor's website! https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ And I'm supposed to use this guy's typesetting program?

lowercased 8y ago

The profile page - http://www.cnciweb.com/id2.html http://www.cnciweb.com/id2.html - indicates support for Windows XP, CDROM, DOS, multimedia, but no mention of Notes. How can we be sure they're qualified?