Amen.
I have wrangled, argued and bent over backwards convincing the firm I work
for not to put forth such crap. Our initiative began 3 months ago after
successful intranet implementation, and have spent more times discussing
(read: debating) issues of web design and corporate branding than actual
production. And it is frustrating when the marketing person *thinks* she
understands web sites because she spends all day at a beanie baby site.
On a related note from that article (by the way, CIO WebBusiness is an
awesome mag..drop some bones and get a subscription), we are putting
together attorney "brag" (bio) pages on one section of the site. I argued
that these pictures and words are worthless without contact info(in a direct
email link from page---let the impulsiveness of a surfer take over). They
thought it was a bad idea (????). Issues of spamming came up....I have a
pretty decent spam net up on the mail server to protect against this
stuff....anyone else in the same boat, or was and got to shore on this one?
Eric J Hoffman
Director of Internet Initiatives
Meagher & Geer, PLLP
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of P.A.
> Gantt
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 3:13 AM
> To: WebConsultants
> Subject: WC:>: Commercial sites
>
>
> from the latest edupage...
>
> WEB WISDOM
> Bran Ferren, VP for creative technology and R&D at Disney Imagineering,
> says
> many Web designers miss the point: "Part of the issue is how to convey
> (a
> company's corporate culture) to the outside world. Information
> technology
> is now being used to do that in the Web pages that many companies are
> now
> using, and they're doing it incredibly badly because they're not taking
> it
> seriously as a storytellling problem. Often the Web-experience is
> frustrating, difficult, convoluted. I can't tell you the number of
> times
> I've gone to the Web page of a company and spent ages waiting for dumb
> graphics to download information. How many times have you seen, for
> instance, a company that's posted on the Web that doesn't bother to give
> you
> a phone number? I don't want to talk to the webmaster or
> webmistress.But
> I may want to talk to the president of the company or someone in sales
> or
> someone in marketing, and I want to do it immediately... People will do
> pages that say 'under construction.' What is this 'under construction'
> nonsense? If you want something that's preliminary, fine. Put up
> something
> preliminary. But when I'm on the Web, I want to know about the product
> you
> make. This doesn't seem like rocket science." (CIO Web Business 1 Dec
> 98)
>
> Comments?
> --
> P.A. Gantt, Computer Science Technology Instructor
> Electronic Media Design and Support Homepage
> http://user.icx.net/~pgantt/
> <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject='eTech'">Email me.</a>
> http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/vision/1998-11.asp
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