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From: Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 06:45 PM
Subject: Re: WC:>: Portals all starting to look and function alike
>On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 04:02:24PM -0700, Kathy E. Gill wrote:
>> So I suggest that portal sites will evolve into a "look" that says "hi,
>> I'm a portal site" without having to use those words.
>
>I think you're right, but I'll bet you a bagel by...hmmm, by the end
>of the year, that they're as passe as, oh, push technology.
That'll be a mightly expensive bagel. The portal craze will cost hundreds of
millions.
>The two problems with the entire concept of portals are (1) they don't
>scale, and anything that doesn't scale will get flattened by the
>pace at which the 'net expands and (2) (to exploit the analogy a bit)
>it doesn't seem to me to make a lot of sense to try to build a door
>when there are no walls.
That second point is quite good. Portals are "Internet Malls II: Return of
the Dead". Corps think that somehow, they can corral people into a defined
space and keep them there. It's a portal, yes, but once they pass through
the door, they go off in all sorts of directions.
We've been putting together a list of obsolete web trends (malls, push,
etc.), here's another one: design. Remember the elaborate, beautiful
PhotoShop-designer web sites, "designed" by graphics artist boutiques, with
"Site of the Day" and "Cool Site" awards? I've not noticed any more of these
lately. Yahoo's success has moved others to simplify (such as Sun at
www.sun.com ) by using tables and colored cells (or is that cells of
color?). Silicon Graphics is still old-fashioned with a web site with
mega-graphics (70 elements or so) (at www.sgi.com) Check out Disney at
www.disney.com for another graphics overload web site.
It used to be way back in the 1997s or so that a "web designer" meant
"skilled at PhotoShop." Well... check out Dice (www.dice.com) job listings
and specify "web"; the main requested skills are JavaScript, Java, C++,
database, and e-commerce. That's "behind the screen" skills.
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