Posts Tagged ‘simple is better’

Web-based Applications

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Web-based Applications can truly enhance your web site. However, many web site developers fall in love with an operating system specific script and lose many potential customers. Writing code with Visual Basic is great if your customers are all using Internet Explorer, but customers using other web browsers will not be able to use your site.

Why would developers use operating system specific scripting? I have three reasons: laziness (Windows provides many GUIs for developing web sites), do not know about proper web site development and browser compatibility (No formal classes on web site development and the web sites they have create are copy and paste), are totally convinced that it is a Microsoft World.

Items one and three there is very little we can do for those web site developers, but the organizations they work for should be aware of the limitations of operating system specific scripting. For the second reason there is hope. Web site developers should concentrate on the basics of web page design. A good reference is http://w3c.org. The World Wide Web Consortium will provide the basics for universally supported scripting languages.

Use server-side scripting when data transformation is required. Do not overlook the power of HTML, XHTML, WAP, Perl, and PHP. If I am developing a web site I use free-hand as opposed to the applications that are available today. The reason is that free-hand enables me to tweak the application and know where to go to troubleshoot that application or web site. Simple is better in regard to web site design. Do not make customers wait to download fancy graphics or they will find another site to conduct business.

Mike Kniaziewicz, MIS

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Web Site Design: Simple is Better

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Web 2.0 is about multi-media web sites. However, the one-site-fits-all mentality is starting to fade. People are searching for more information today than every before, but they are not willing to wait while “fancy” graphics load (or fail to load). Web site designers need to take intended users into consideration and not concentrate of satisfying their own ego.

http://ebusinessjuncture.com takes into consideration the fact that people are searching for information and cannot afford to wait for meaningless graphics to load. Simple designs are becoming the mainstay once more in web site design. A web site will retain users based upon information and not fancy graphics. Save the fancy graphics for your personal web site and not your business.

Creating static web content on five pages will serve your needs better as people are able to load your pages faster. Having DSL or FIOS does not mean a majority of your customers have access to the same bandwidth. Bandwidth will become a larger consideration as broadband provides seek to charge per-downstream content.

Mike Kniaziewicz, MIS

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