It’s May … 2008 … not 2007!

By Steve Outing on May 7, 2008 in Misc.

There’s a pet peeve of mine that crops up every January: Website publishers (including some big names) routinely forget to change the copyright dateline in the footers of their pages and in their e-mail deliveries. I usually post a blog item reminding everyone to make this simple change.

Surprisingly, I’m still seeing a lot of “copyright 2007″ notices, especially on e-mail newsletters. Here are a few screen grabs from e-mails that I received in recent days:

For those of you who still need reminding, stop publishing in the past. :)

1 Comment(s)

  1. On May 8, 2008, Nick said:

    Footers, at least, are an easy fix: just use a PHP Date() function that will update itself when the new year rolls around.

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