Does your website fit any of the following? Then your web site’s design is outdated for sure. Either you or your web designer is living in a cave
* Never disappearing Under construction clip art sign. Mostly with a nice hammer and nail.
* Home page says Click here to enter for no reason (Except for adult sites)
* Ever loading home page flash screen with a skip flash button.
* Site full of frames.
* Site optimized for Internet Explorer 6.
* The whole site is an image map.
* Non Unicode sites with “find-me-where” download font links.
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Can you think of more clues? Let me know in comments.
One’s Email ID and usage behavior could reveal some info about his online history:
* Email IDs like sumathy1999@yahoo.com or john2009@hotmail.com with recent years indicates the year the Email ID was created.
* An Email ID with a very common name like ram@gmail.com or james@gmail.com indicates he was one of the earlier and long time users of the service. No way such a common name is freely available.
* Email IDs like mary1952@yahoo.com or mohammed1969@hotmail.com with very old years indicates the year the person was born.
* An Email ID like biovishnu@xyz.com or mechsundar@123.com indicates the profession / interest of the person involved.
* An Email ID like writerkumar@gmail.com indicates that the writer is definitely Tamil and no global guy will recognize unless he himself declares as a writer
* An Email ID like priya4raj@gmail.com or aruna4rishi@yahoo.com indicates that the girl is in love with that guy. Most probably the boyfriend will be checking her emails. Beware.
* Any email ID with hotmail.com indicates that the owner is an early user of internet who doesn’t know to move to better email services or he should be real dumb.
* A person with more than 3 email IDs (most likely from small sites) and checks it regularly is a newbie internet user.
* A person who keeps forwarding emails probably doesn’t use internet for anything else worth spending time.
* One who calls you to verify that you received an email is probably a grand father / grand mother who is excited to learn this internet stuff.
* One who uses Twitter instead of Email is a fairly advanced internet user.
Can you think of anything else?