Posted by Carsten Rose Lundberg Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:47:00 GMT
Having developed our own CMS over the course of 5 years I've come to know the strengths and weaknesses of the concept and lately I've seriously begun doubting whether the approach is completely off.
Read more...Posted by Carsten Rose Lundberg Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:12:00 GMT
As a follow up on yesterdays post this article from Fast Company elaborates on the fact that you need to focus. The following quote nails it.
“Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our way of approaching it closed. It’s simple, it’s elegant, you can slip it in your pocket, but it’s got the great doodad when you need it. A lot of our competitors are like a Swiss Army knife open-and that can be intimidating and occasionally harmful.”
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/100/beauty-of-simplicity.html
Posted by Carsten Rose Lundberg Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:08:00 GMT
Making decisions isn’t easy but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have to be made. Building a website means taking decisions upon decisions - who to focus on and what to focus on. Getting people to realize that it’s crucial to the success of the website that these decisions are made is always a struggle. Our alltime favorite Gerry McGovern touches upon that in his latest “NEW THINKING” newsletter. Especially the following part is spot on.
“Look at Google. What do you see on the Google homepage? A very big search box. And is this all that Google offers? Of course not.
Here’s what else Google offers: Alerts, Local, Answers, Maps, Blog Search, Mobile, Book Search, News, Catalogs, Scholar, Directory, SMS, Froogle, Special Searches, Groups, University Search, Images, Labs, Web Search Features, Blogger, Picasa, Code, Talk, Desktop, Toolbar, Earth, Translate, Gmail.
You can’t administer a website; you have to manage it. If Google administered its website, then every time it released a new tool or service, it would add it to its homepage.”
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2005/nt-2005-11-28-nino-doll.htm
Posted by Carsten Rose Lundberg Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:05:00 GMT
We’ve always argued that webdesign and business are not opposites. Not that we have had trouble convincing people but it’s always nice to see someone else taking on the argument.