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 Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Site, Sight, Stacey, Stacie and all the other ways you can spell The Site Doctor wrong

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:54:08 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

One of the quandaries I've had for a while with The Site Doctor is our name, it sounds silly but I've lost count of the number of times I've had to spell out "site", it may not be too obvious why at first glance but there's two common spellings of "site" -one relates to websites, building etc, the other opticians (sight). Silly eh!

It has never really bothered me in the past but now that I have Stacey working with me we run into another issue -not only does she have a difficult to spell surname (Shapcott), people use so many inflections of "Stacey" it's comical. So this week I've taken it upon myself to sort this and have gone all out creating email aliases (we used to just have name@, name.lastname@, initiallastname@) but Stacey now has Stacie, Stace, Stacee and numerous other counterparts.

In an effort to make life easier for our clients, we've also got a few more domain names that point to our main domain name which include:

www.thesitedoc.co.uk

www.thesitedr.co.uk

www.sitedoc.co.uk

and my favourite:

www.thesightdoctor.co.uk

A little overkill perhaps but for the sake of £20 I thought it was worth it ;)

Moral of the story: Don't have a long winded name that has words that sound similar to others in it ;)

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:10:11 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Plus, with your surname not being particularly straight-forward, I guess you have to spell that sometimes too...

If you're in the mood to fix these problem, perhaps you should sort something out to get rid of the "Shapcott" surname...

;-)

Craig.
Craig
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:23:10 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Amazingly I don't -I tend to spell it out for people who sound a little lost but most people can.

As for sorting out Stacey's surname -meh ;)

Tim
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:29:43 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Well, if people don't have an issue with "Gaunt", then perhaps you should look to change Stacey's surname to Gaunt.

You know, to help with spelling issues giving out email addresses. Obviously.

Craig.
Craig
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:41:15 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
hehe it's in the pipeline, what more do you want grandpa!
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