Jan 22, 2010
“I want exactly that, but different” and other horror stories
A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from web designers (none of these are ours, we promise!)
Jan 18, 2010
The Internet is killing your business, Part II
Taking advantage of that Internet thing
In Part I we looked at how the Internet changes everything. This is how you can take advantage of it.
Jan 14, 2010
The Internet is killing your business, Part I
We meet a lot of big, established companies who don’t ‘get’ the Internet.
“We’ve got a guy looking at that.”
“Most of our customers don’t use the Internet anyway.”
“We’ve already got a website. I haven’t really used it, but it looks really nice.”
Many businesspeople dismiss the Internet as a place for their website and email. That’s equivalent to seeing the PC as a nicer looking typewriter, and about as dangerous. History is littered with the carcasses of once great companies that failed to embrace revolutions: from the combustion engine to the microchip. Just like these, the Internet changes the whole game.
Jan 13, 2010
How to lose your empire to a guy in a garage
Year founded: 1995 Website launched: 1995 NASDAQ: AMZN |
Year founded: 1917 Website launched: 1997 NYSE: BKS |
Which pretty much says it all.
For the full story, read this interview of Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder.
Nov 26, 2009
10 signs your web writing sucks
99.9% of writing on the Internet is utter crap.
We’ve known £100 million companies with content that looks like it was excreted from the rear end of an illiterate baboon.
Nov 17, 2009
If only your website was a nightclub
It’s the opening night of your dream nightclub. You’ve spent months picking out the right shade of pink for the carpet, the perfect umbrellas for your cocktails, the best bulldog statues for the toilets. It cost you every penny you have, but it’s perfect.
You invited everyone you know – of course – and it’s going pretty well. Word of mouth is sure to spread, and in a few weeks you’ll be packed.
Nov 3, 2009
The pain-free redesign of our own website
Apparently doctors make the worst patients. As web designers, working on our own websites can be similarly life threatening.
We must be getting better at this though, because this was a cinch.
Nov 2, 2009
Have you got your Christmas e-cards sorted?
With more postal strikes on the way, now is the perfect time to save money, help the environment and send your Christmas cards electronically.
Silktide Studios are offering two ways you can send festive greetings this year.
Nov 1, 2009
How not to spend £180,000 on a website
Defra has been widely criticised for spending £180,000 on redesigning their website – because it looked ‘too brown’.
Now it’s easy to poke fun here, but as web designers we’re interested how that money was spent and why. I mean, the money didn’t just go on a colour change… right?
Oct 5, 2009
The secret to websites that work
The problem with most websites is they’re built for the people who are building them.
All the things which matter to the person who pays for a website are almost entirely irrelevant to their poor audience. Is it cool? Are the corners rounded? Where is the SEXY GROUNDBREAKING NEW FEATURETM?
