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First Web Site Evaluationby Benjamin MelançonThe bottled water company Poland SpringNOTE: This page was written in 2000 December and is not current. Poland Spring has a full-scale web site now, instead of just a placeholder page. Remember not to add an s to the name of their company Poland Spring not Poland Springs apparently there is only one spring: http://www.polandspring.com/. (The and-now-for-something-completely-different Norcia lion was also not part of the original review. This page was never intended to serve a useful social function. If someone could tell me why this is one of the most visited site on my web site, that is, why are you here, Id be much obliged.) Excuse: I thought that a business site would be a good for the first evaluation. Local, I further thought, but big enough to have a website. Poland Spring came to mind. Reason for the excuse: Poland Spring doesn't have a web site. What they have is a web page that informs everybody that they don't have a site. So I am going to evaluate that. (I did not search the Internet for sites that didn't exist. The lack of a web site was quite a surprise. Since this is the first evaluation and what we covered in the book so far was on pages rather than sites, I hope a one page evaluation is acceptable.) INTERMISSION
END OF INTERMISSIONThe evaluation: When I first tried to look at the Web site, I used the URL "www.polandsprings.com" and was promptly informed there's no such thing. I had thought that Poland Springs was the name of the company, when it is actually Poland Spring, without an 's'. Most people, no doubt, are less confused than I, but it would be a very good idea for Poland Spring to get ahold of that domain name. The average internet user should not be expected to know the precise number of springs in Poland, Maine. I, however, deduced the true name of the company. As it stands on September 13, 2000, Poland Spring puts up a site that looks nice but provides nearly no information and violates some basic canons of page design:
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