On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 20:46:08 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 09:28:28 UTC, Benjiro wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 20:51:24 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
[...]
True. Anybody can make a website. A website that is efficient,
takes time. A stupid travel booking website took over a year
with constant meeting to design around here. The result is a
efficient design but it takes time.
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On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 09:28:28 UTC, Benjiro wrote:
I like this guy :) (You are the first person I ever liked here)
I.e. "He agrees with me, therefore I like him!" One year of
meetings to design a website does not necessarily mean the site's
good or that it has to take at least a year until you have a
presentable website. Designing a website for a company means that
the marketing knobs feel they have to throw in their 2 cents and
want them acted upon or they block the whole process - then at
the end, all of a sudden the boss - who never cared for the
website - wants to have a look too and here we go again... We're
talking about font-sizes, gradient colors, button 2px to the
left, company logo bigger/smaller etc, not about the page logic.
Of course, because they know nothing about programming they go by
what they see and try to make a contribution there, just for the
sake of it.
Unfortunately, it is often forgotten that each website needs a
different, unique approach. Getting inspiration from other
websites is good, trying to copy them is not a good idea, because
it will never serve your purpose optimally.
The real craftsmanship behind a website is mastering the various
technologies that don't work smoothly together (HTML, JS, PHP,
forms, requests, server side stuff, browsers, data bases). Web
design is 90% page logic, 10% inspiration.