Ugh... and again, this time to the list... again... Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
First impressions are everything. I would never making it past your employer's website's first page. There's not much you can do if your boss won't budge, but I bet that there is a lot that you can do to help convince him. Does he browse the rest of the internet much? Put together some examples of how his website looks like 1998 while the rest looks like 2007.
Wade has some good points here. In addition, you could show him the stats of dropped visitors (managers love stats - ever heard one say "numbers don't lie"?). Then say something like "Here's what Wade Shearer says about the site, and he's president of UPHPU and UGAF. Here's what Cole Joplin says and he's also a very successful business website designer". Sometimes I even ask a question to this group and with enough feedback, I'll send the person a link to the list's web archive. When they read 25 opinions from various professional web developers, it can prove persuasive. This also assumes there are not hard to read distro, text editor, browser, and other wars. UPHPU does well with this as well. Managers will buy into change when they see that other's who are successful and experienced recommend a change. Brandon Stout http://mscis.org _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
