I am not longer the youngest Golden Rule employee! I am 17 and 5 months. We recently (a couple of months ago) hired someone in the Oswego office that is 17 and 8 months. A week or two ago we hired someone that is 17 and 1 month! I dare say the median and average age of GR employees has taken a serious drop recently.
I am also proud to announce the launch of our new Golden Rule Travel website design. It has been many months in the making and is much prettier than the old one.
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June 27th, 2005 at 7:57 pm
Nice job Hans! I was looking at your site last week and was wondering why someone of your technical ability had a website that looked like it was built in the early 90’s. *grin*
June 27th, 2005 at 10:33 pm
How dare you insult me! I mean, Thanks! I mean… hmmm… Is that an insult or a compliment? A bit of both I guess. *grin*
Basically with our niche, a website is not a high priority. There are better methods of reaching our customers. This is especially true as we are constantly looking to hire bright young people (such a the 17 yr, 1 m guy; we recruited him right out of HS when he gradded a year early.) and all our agents have more than enough work. My primary work is in Communications and that was a higher priority. I did finally find time to do a quick redesign. Our webdriven sales have gone up a nice amount recently as a bunch of foreign adoption websites and messageboards, etc have been recommending our excellent expert in that area, Eldo Miller. (Try Googling “Eldo Miller” and you’ll find a bunch of sites that reference him as a good adoption travel expert. Kazakhstan is a hot adoption spot right now.)
June 28th, 2005 at 12:03 am
Been waiting to take a peek at that site….. just for curiosity sake!
Nice, simple and clean…and XHTML Strict at that!! But it isn’t validated?
And wondering why you imbedded your CSS instead of linking external.?
I’m not picking, I’m looking to learn.
P.S. Thanks for the link!
June 28th, 2005 at 7:52 am
I like the look! Might point out, though, that “non-existant” is a non-existent word, and on http://goldenruletravel.com/about_us.asp you have “Sometimes Golden Rule also can save the, client money” and a broken link to http://goldenruletravel.com/alternative.asp. Anyway, I do like the professional “feel” of the site.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:06 am
A. Riehl: Yeah, I have some validation nitpickings to work out… As for the CSS: For all practical purposes it is linked externally. It’s stuck in using SSIs. I could add yet another file and bring the total of included files to 3, which wouldn’t be an awful thing. Is it really a big deal one way or another?
atthecrux: Thanks for the corrections!
June 28th, 2005 at 10:28 am
A. Riehl: You’re welcome for the link.
atthecrux: And thanks for the compliment!
June 28th, 2005 at 11:00 am
Hans: sorry about that, I ment it as a complement, in a way.
Any one who had a site out in the 90′ was really on top of things. (it was up in the 90’s, right?)
Jake
June 28th, 2005 at 11:01 am
I know. I was just teasing.
June 28th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Hans, I finally added a link on the sidebar at Ten Cents so that I wouldn’t have to keep running through Worthy Thinking to get here.
June 28th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
Lol… Thanks!
June 28th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
I’m humored by the similarity to the website of your favorite software company.
June 29th, 2005 at 9:09 am
Hmm… I fail to see the similarity but glad you found humor in it. *grin*
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