site overdesign

[prepsportshq.com]

OK so let's talk about the problem children. The people who design a site put every bell and whistle, clog the antivirus, and then lag on the reload.

[DaveyBoy]

I'd rather not

[imaginemn]

Design does not cause those issues. It's poor programming. The design will only impact sales and marketing. It's up to the programmer to make sure the site it optimized and running smoothly. Design is visual and VERY subjective. For every person that likes blue you will find a person that hates it.

[LazyJim]

Originally Posted by imaginemn

For every person that likes blue you will find a person that hates it.

definately

Originally Posted by imaginemn

Design does not cause those issues. It's poor programming. The design will only impact sales and marketing. It's up to the programmer to make sure the site it optimized and running smoothly. Design is visual and VERY subjective.

obviously not right, (apart from the subjective bit)
firstly you can design things that are not visual in any way, secondly you can design sites to be as heavy or light as you like the programming can only go so far to reduce the load. Of course a lot of the time not enough is done on the programing side, but I would guess that more often than not it is a lack of design that is the problem, in other words the design is not complete and there is no direction for the programming so the programmer makes it all up as he goes along and it works badly, (at least in non-commercial cases).

Idealy a complete design will keep load (users' cognative load and CPU graphics and bandwidth load) down while not compromisng the success of the site. Making the best use of what load they can put on the users and computers is the key, equating to efficiency.

[prepsportshq.com]

Yes but must the blue appears so visitors can grip their mice in anger at the lag lag lag? This isn't reforging the shards of narsil.

This forum looks and handles really smooth. So obviously some programming savvy went into it. So why don't the "others" pick up some of those habits?

[imaginemn]

It's simple. You get what you pay for. Some sites spend thousands of dollars running/maintaining their sites and other spend nothing. Do you hire someone at $45 - $150/hr to code your site or do you hire someone that will do the design and coding for $150? Which one do you think will perform better?

There are just TOO MANY students/kids doing this without knowing or having the experience on what it takes to create a successful site. Even my 10 year old daughter can create and design a website because she has access to all the tools and she knows her way around a computer. Is she good enought to run a business? Sure. Will she be very successful at it? Not at first but eventually after a few years of experience she will get better and get it right.

So to recap, creating a website is EASY and that is why you see so many "crappy" sites.

[jezza chan]

Originally Posted by imaginemn

It's simple. You get what you pay for. Some sites spend thousands of dollars running/maintaining their sites and other spend nothing. Do you hire someone at $45 - $150/hr to code your site or do you hire someone that will do the design and coding for $150? Which one do you think will perform better?

There are just TOO MANY students/kids doing this without knowing or having the experience on what it takes to create a successful site. Even my 10 year old daughter can create and design a website because she has access to all the tools and she knows her way around a computer. Is she good enought to run a business? Sure. Will she be very successful at it? Not at first but eventually after a few years of experience she will get better and get it right.

So to recap, creating a website is EASY and that is why you see so many "crappy" sites.

Anyone can make a website but the chances of making money is slim unless the person knows what they're doing or how to market their site/s properly.