OK, today's "new and improved" Cisco website is about the worst piece of excrement I've seen yet. When I'm in a hurry to find the details of a particular command in a particular IOS release, the last thing I want is some cutsie Java front end that takes extra time to load, plays with my screen, pops up another window and then requires me to precisely "hover" over the items I'm looking for. Just give me a simple HTML page that loads instantly, runs on any browser and lets me click on what I want to read. If you really want to spend a bunch of extra money on your web page, develop a decent search engine for the doco instead. Bunch of clueless idiots!
Fire the web morons!
Oct 02, 2007
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Odd, to me it looks just the same as it has done for months (an improvement over the previous design) and whilst it has an animated ad on the front page that can be skipped and everything else generally just works. That's not to say the content arrangement is particularly wonderful, but it doesn't have the problems you seem to have found.
Sam
I agree with you, Mike! Their site is slow and finding information is difficult. Yesterday I had to update my CCO profile, and the update page was full of broken images. Yet another thing about Cisco that shows a decline in quality, especially where software is concerned.
Between their ridiculous outage some time ago (I mean c'mon, who runs a worldwide company with ONE datacenter that maps to ONE ip address! Geesh, and these people tout the gospel of fault tolerance and datacenter design!) and their crappy site, I agree - fire the web department!
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