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December 30, 2006
John Andretti Doesn't Have an Official Website
In looking for some information for the previous entry about ppc Racing, I discovered that John Andretti doesn't have a website. That's astonishing to me that in a time when the internet is how many people get all their news and information, that Andretti doesn't even have a basic webpage. So there's no way for Andretti to get news and information out to his fans online, which means that a lot of people likely have no idea what he's up to. Sure, ppc Racing has a website, but that would only feature news that relates to what Andretti does for ppc and the #10 team. There might be other news or events that Andretti's involved with that would be ideal to promote on a personal site. Until recently there was a fan website, but that's currently down because the domain expired, but a fan site isn't the same as an official site, no matter how good it might be.
So currently the only way for Andretti's fans to get the latest information about him online in one place is if they have the message board that was associated with the fan site bookmarked. It was said on that board that the reason why Andretti doesn't have a website is because he doesn't have "people" to maintain it for him. I think that's a pretty poor excuse. Steve Park doesn't have too many "people" either, and he manages to have a basic website, though it could use a significant amount of work. But at least Steve has a web presence, as frustrating as it might be at times to see so little be done with it. It does cost money to get someone to professionally develop and maintain a website, but if Andretti feels he can't afford that seems to me that maybe he can enter into an agreement with the person who does the fan page to do johnandretti.com, or there's even the no-frills option, as suggested by someone on the fan board, and go with a myspace - that wouldn't cost any money.
Likely, both drivers don't really understand the importance of having a strong web presence and how much of an asset it can be for them.
Posted by silverdsl at December 30, 2006 05:01 PM