On 4/14/07, Graham Shroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, the web was a great place back then (I really miss that 'flame' gif and 'under construction' banner)!
I recall a domain registrar in the late 90s advertising 2 guys trying to make a website and talking about making a flaming spinning logo, and how this registrar can help you get a 'real site'. Conversely, unless a company is selling through their website directly I
believe it is largely a pointless asset; These days, a professional corporate website seems to be a term synonymous with "loads of flash, stock photography, thousands of words of marketing waffle". That can be as much of a turn off as a dreamweaver-template startup in my opinion. That being the case, people buy from people - if you still get a dodgy feeling from the sales guy, don't buy!
My opinion on this, which seems to contradict those that *sell* stock photography, flash (that forces noise upon the user without any prompting) and other simiar things, is a website should load fast, be informative yet have minimal eye candy, etc. Look at how popular craigs list is. All those images, when they serve no purpose, or flash that has a bunch of graphics and audio just to be a website 'intro' is net pollution in my opinion. How much bandwidth can be saved for real things by not doing that? I think it also depends on your demographic and what you are selling, if you are a music act then images of performances, audio tracks, etc are almost required. If you are selling widgets in a B2B environment flashy graphics, forced audio (which disrupts the work place of the viewer), etc are uncalled for. I am sure however if you ask 100 people their opinion on this you will get at least 101 opinions. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the VoIP provider that pays you!
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