If a website doesn't properly capitalize the first letter in the name of their website, should you copy their usage when discussing them in print, or should you capitalize the proper noun?

I used to always not capitalize Facebook – but in their own mention of their site, they do capitalize it, so it is only the logo that is not capitalized. The same is true for Fluther. It’s just an artistic/design thing for the logos.

I’ll still give you a GQ for using “hosed up”, though.

Fluther and Facebook are both capitalized. In fact, I can’t find a single place on Fluther where the word is found in lowercase. The logo is a bit ambiguous, I suppose. Then again, it’s depicting the URL. In any case, it’s definitely capitalized on the about page. Facebook also capitalizes it’s name everywhere except for its logo. The login page, for instance, says “Connect with friends and the
world around you on Facebook.”

But for Fluther that is a capital F, same height as the “l”, in the logo.

And amazon is always lower case!

@zenvelo Amazon also capitalizes its name everywhere except the logo.

@zenvelo – Not true! When I go to www.amazon.com, the link to the right of the logo says “Your Amazon.com”.

… and the lower case f is also the same height as an l: fluther Fluther

Thanks you guys!

eBay, just to mix things up.
I nearly always flub it up and type Ebay.

Funny, I always looked at the logo as a lowercase “f” but always write it with a capital f.
In cases where the first letter is stylized as lowercase, yes, you do. eBay, iPhone, dxs, etc.
It happens in math a lot too when you’re using a lowercase unknown. Making that unknown uppercase changes the definition, in many cases into some value already defined.

Food for thought…

URLs are not case-sensitive. As our culture gets more web-centric, the general public becoming less case-sensitive… which is an issue when typing passwords into sites that use case-sensitive passwords.

Good question. I do both, but have always wondered what is correct. Take iPad for instance. The i is lower case, and Apple’s dictionary will fix it for you to lower case if you have that function turned on and you capitalize it. I worked at Bloomgdale’s for many years, and their logo is lower case b and so is their famour big brown bag.

@jerv email addresses too. I just cannot get it into my dad’s head that it doesn’t matter if he uses upper or lower case letters in email addresses. Every time he gives out his email to someone he insists that the initial letters of his name are capitalised.