General 04 Feb 2007 02:46 pm
So you’re going to spend a LOT of money on sponsoring the Super Bowl pregame show…
…and you don’t bother testing your site on the Mac? Are you freakin’ kidding me?
While watching today’s Super Bowl pregame show I noticed that Salesgenie.com was sponsoring the show - and running commercials at every break. I can only imagine how much money this must have cost them. It has to be in the millions of dollars.
So I decide to go check it out - on my Mac…
On the Mac I see this on their homepage:
I figured this had to be a CSS rendering issue to I fired up Parallels and opened the same page in IE7 in Windows XP. This is what the same page looked like:
Note to all companies who think it’s a good idea to spend millions on Super Bowl ads/sponsorships to send potential customers to your website: TEST YOUR FREAKIN SITE IN MORE THAN IE WINDOWS! Sorry, but it’s just irresponsible.
While I’m ranting, why do the Super Bowl pregame and halftime performances have to suck so bad? Just put a high school/college marching band out on the field with some frisbee-catching dogs and call it a day. I don’t want to watch Gloria Estefan and some other unnamed performer dancing around in colorful costumes. I don’t want to see Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson groping each other. I don’t want to see Aerosmith doing a duet with Britney freakin Spears! Ugh…
on 04 Feb 2007 at 5:31 pm 1.Phillip Kerman said …
If it’s any consolation, it looks that way on Firefox windows too.
Uh, while I’m not into his music all that much, I’d say Prince is a true artist. Though, yeah, the show is silly. Just wait for the anti-wardrobe malfunction police to complain about the phallic image in the shadows of this year’s show.
on 04 Feb 2007 at 8:32 pm 2.eric bartlett said …
You hit it on the head!! Test your site on every browser, on every platform you can possibly test it on.
And, the last couple half time shows have sucked!!!
on 05 Feb 2007 at 1:03 am 3.Ryan Stewart said …
Nooooooo Mike!!!! Just by going to their site you have justified those terrible, terrible commercials. I kept thinking there was going to be a punchline as if it was some fake ad. Sadly, no. I think it’s only fitting their site doesn’t work on a Mac
on 05 Feb 2007 at 6:17 pm 4.Bruce McCarthy said …
InfoUSA, the company that owns Sales Genie, is a database company. Their technical capabilities are at about the same level of sophistication and subtlety as the ads themselves (complete with Ferrari-driving, babe-catching, and executive-schmoozing).
I’ve always advocated prioritizing the targets for limited testing resources. In the case of browsers, it’s easy to use a site like Hitslink (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=6) to prioritize. A lot of business people don’t think about Macs or even Firefox, but currently that’s telling about 18% of your potential customers to get lost.
on 05 Nov 2007 at 4:23 pm 5.Lot said …
Hey! nice site, looks good.