On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Javilk wrote:
> > choose how best to implement the client's vision.
>
> They have visions? Hmmm... Oh yes, I think I have had clients who
> had visions! Hallucinations, more like it! Getting them to have
> functionalities in their heads is the hard part.
Often, vision is what many of the people I deal with do best. They are
entreprenurial visionaries who've hired people like me to bring them to
life.
>
> But yes, visions, imagination IS important as a starting point. But
> vision needs to be distilled over and over again till one has something
> that is both visionary, and more important, Functional.
>
> Sad most of my clients won't pay for that distillation. Then again,
> if they were willing, they probably wouldn't hire me... (Laughing!)
>
> Mostly, I build nuts and bolts stuff, using scripts to turn large
> documents in to knowledge structures, etc. It is a different kind of
> imagination that sparks that, than what inspires a beautiful graphical
> site. But on today's web, it is the words that get indexed in the search
> engines, and the search engines which bring most of the traffic.
Let's draw that out a step further. The words will get a site indexed, the
search engine brings in the traffic, but what KEEPS them there? Speaking
for myself, I may click on that #1 site in the search engine. But if, when
I arrive, the site is laid out like a maze, the graphics are glaringly
obnoxious or large or full of jaggies, that screams "non-professional" to
me, and I won't *stay* at a site. Why should I believe their words if they
don't care enough about them to package them nicely?
Face it - would you eat steak if it looked and smelled like dog poop? (for
the vegans out there - substitute the couscous, lentils, etc :>)
Lisa, who does the scripty thang too, the "knowledge structure" (nice
phrase, btw!) as well, but who likes it to be attractive and palatable.
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Lisa Rowe | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WebVoodoo Productions: www.webvoodoo.com
WebDesignClinic: www.webdesignclinic.com
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