Web Design Gone Wrong
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Web Development can be one of the most difficult tasks to undertake. The varying degrees of involvement with the client can provide either useful or counterproductive elements in the overall product. Unfortunately, the compromises between form, function, and taste can leave a website as functional as someone who refused to obey the warning label and put their hand under the lawn mower.
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Web Development can be one of the most difficult tasks to undertake. The varying degrees of involvement with the client can provide either useful or counterproductive elements in the overall product. Unfortunately, the compromises between form, function, and taste can leave a website as functional as someone who refused to obey the warning label and put their hand under the lawn mower.
I have recently had one of these very painful experiences with such a customer who hired me to build a custom WordPress theme. Once the theme was completed, the client decided to hire me to do their Search Engine Optimization for them. While on one hand they desired the benefits of a productive website they are mired in a site structure that will have cataclysmic effects on their search engine ranking until it is resolved. So they have chosen against my advice to keep hundreds of dead links, bad url's, and a host of other web abominations. This is one of the biggest drawbacks of the do it yourself mentality using the great applications such as WordPress. It is content management gone wrong.
We live in a time where we watch houses built in a week by an army of builders on TV, home improvement shows on how to do everything yourself, and the same mentality is alive on the internet. It is touted by many companies today that you can build your own website with drag and drop ease. While this becomes more of a reality, it also opens a Pandoras box of bad web applications. In the end, the client always blames the application for the elements not displaying as they would like not taking into account if they have no experience that might be the problem.
Web Development is more complex than drag and drop. To have a truly good web application there must be a well-written symphony of code, content, and imagery. Imagine a musical piece put together with drag and drop.
Anyone with dedication can undertake the long process of learning how to develop a great website, but that long process is what is necessary. Web development from a professional will always cost far less than in the long run than an attempt without the knowledge or the tools. How many people actually save money trying to repair their own car, house, TV, etc? Web design/development is no different.
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