The voices are telling me Marilyn Langfeld said on 12/29/2004 6:44 AM:
I wanted to add that I've had success with small businesses by
describing how easily their sites can be redesigned using CSS (show them
CSS Zen Garden). If they've already gone through a redesign, they've
been impressed. If
I think you've hit on something with the thought below. It's easier to sell
control than quicker loading, etc. People buy based on emotion and then
justify that decision based on facts.
Control is a strong buying motivator. Acceptance is another. One or the
other motivator will work with most
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:08:30 +0800, Wong Chin Shin
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1) Designers, how would YOU approach selling this concept? Or would you?
2) Managers, what would catch YOUR attention in a pitch geared towards this?
I'm not really either... but I can tell you that the company I work
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Subject: RE: [WSG] making money out of web standards
I think you've hit on something with the thought below. It's easier to sell
control than quicker loading, etc. People buy based on emotion and then
justify that decision based on facts.
Control is a strong buying motivator. Acceptance
I wanted to add that I've had success with small businesses by describing how easily their sites can be redesigned using CSS (show them CSS Zen Garden). If they've already gone through a redesign, they've been impressed. If not, and they are fearful of making mistakes with the first go, their
Separating content and layout made perfect sense to me as a programmer.
XML/XSLT is good 'cos it allows me to modularize sections of a site
without having to resort to server-side technologies.
...except server-side XSLT transformation, right?
Because XSLT on client side is non-semantic,
: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:13 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] making money out of web standards
...except server-side XSLT transformation, right?
Because XSLT on client side is non-semantic, incompatible and hardly
accessible
Wong Chin Shin wrote:
Sorry, don't really understand what you mean by your statement below. The
XSL document may not be readable but the XML can be set to be as readable
and descriptive as we want it to?
I think what Kornel meant (with some possible elucidations from me) was
that XML/XSLT, while
Wong Chin Shin wrote:
Sorry, don't really understand what you mean by your statement below. The
XSL document may not be readable but the XML can be set to be as readable
and descriptive as we want it to?
Search engines, browsers, etc will treat your XML merely as a plain text
document, as they
Wong wrote:
Ok, so
a programmer may not be able to come out with works of art,
but hey, I just
want a corporate-looking site. Banner on top, footer bottom,
menu on the
left yadda yadda. Mr programmer, you can do that, right?
No, go read How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility?
Hi,
It occurs to me that a way of marketing web standards is in fear of not being
seen.
There is a big boom in mobile and handheld computing and access to the net, and
it seems to be gathering pace. Keeping to standards allows such devices (and
anything else that may come along) to access pages
1) Designers, how would YOU approach selling this concept? Or would you?
Here's my take as a designer/IA/coder who works in a similar market space to
you:
Sell the aesthetics, functionality and usability of the product. This is
what makes your solution intelligent and different from the
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