I’ve had to “integrate” with them on multiple broker website launches and I use “integrate” loosely because so far it’s been nothing but a joke.

Their .NET platform according to my main contact Gary cannot handle correct HTML markup and instead must maintain the design/look-feel of my customers websites via a giant image map and some horrid table code…

I’ll give that a second to sink in.

They “brand” my customers websites by placing a header and footer or in reality a top and bottom image map around their otherwise broken and browser incompatible code. (Take a look at Opera: it doesn’t work at all. Or IE 7: get some weird cookie error in a frame).

Now that alone combined with the fact that it has taken me about 2-3 weeks of very frustrated communication on each “branding” to get something remotely close working would be enough to tell someone never to use this product. But then add in the fact that some of my customers are STILL getting ads served on their supposedly ad free sites after 3 weeks of complaining and being told by CyberHomes that they can’t possibly be seeing ads… and you get a just plain horrible service. And I use “service” lightly.

Readers be wary. Cyberhomes might take a year or two to mature… if at all.