You know, we get a lot of tips around here. There’s a lot of WIN in St. Pete, and people like to send us emails pointing that out to us. There’s nothing we do better than pointing out what’s right with St. Pete. Well, ok, we do some of that, and I swear we’re trying to get better at it. Anyway, it would be physically impossible to write posts about all the crappy local websites we encounter on a daily basis.

Every now and again, though, we get sent something special. Take the site for local technology-related something or other business CCID Technologies. Seriously, go check that shit out. I love this site. What’s great about the interwebs is that sometimes people just leave shit up that’s been there since 1997. I remember 1997 fondly. It was back then that putty-colored things in the IT world meant “serious business,” and when having a site that was black, white, and red meant that you were probably trying to subtly suggest that you were somehow allied with CompUSA, which also meant: Serious business - serious enough for you to grab a photo of a serious-looking putty-colored set up with three high tech CRT monitors and use it as your site banner. If you were rocking a three CRT set up in 1997 it definitely meant “serious busines.”

I’m not going to lie. I was there, and this site takes me right back and makes me feel a little nostalgic. I’m so glad this has stayed up since 1997. Wait, what? Copyright 2005? Oh. Well maybe the site’s been up since 1997 and they just updated the copyright info. Hmmm, apparently not. A look here shows that the code snippet they used in their banner to show, you know, that they code mad CSS is from a Myspace theme. Wow. You know, seriously, nothing says “check out my ninja coding skills” like a snippet from a Myspace theme. The fact that the background image is hosted at ImageShack is really just icing.

I just can’t stop myself sometimes. Ahem. Those of you watching at home will notice that the menu is composed entirely of individually rendered Flash animations. No, seriously, there’s a separate .swf for each tab. Why did I never think of that? Click here if you’d like to go home. Dude, your house is HUGE.

At least the logo says TECH. Serious tech.

Wait a minute. Where have I seen that font before? Oh, right.

Serious android tech. I knew that site was designed by robots. Who else would greet you with, “Welcome valued individual”?

I sense serious win in the font sector. What do you guys think?