Comments on: Content Owners Don’t Know http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/07/18/content-owners-dont-know/ Ramblings about art, education, culture and a lot more Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:45:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian Clifton http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/07/18/content-owners-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-110292 Ian Clifton Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:48:57 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=454#comment-110292 Ouch, that's a pretty terrible one. I try to use analogies to explain these kinds of things, but that one's really pushing it. Just imagine you decided to have a wood house built and when it was all done, it seemed perfect. Then you changed your mind and decided you wanted it to be a brick house. You can just 'change the walls to "brick" instead of "wood" right?' Ouch, that’s a pretty terrible one. I try to use analogies to explain these kinds of things, but that one’s really pushing it.

Just imagine you decided to have a wood house built and when it was all done, it seemed perfect. Then you changed your mind and decided you wanted it to be a brick house. You can just ‘change the walls to “brick” instead of “wood” right?’

]]> By: Luke Maciak http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/07/18/content-owners-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-110291 Luke Maciak Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:45:13 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=454#comment-110291 <blockquote>Changing requirements near the end of a project kills developers’ morale.</blockquote> How about this: "You know, I don't like the idea of a web app. Let's just change it to a regular windows application. You can reuse most of your code and just like change the interface to 'application' instead of 'web' right?" Web app was written in PHP on a LAMP stack. Fun times!

Changing requirements near the end of a project kills developers’ morale.

How about this:

“You know, I don’t like the idea of a web app. Let’s just change it to a regular windows application. You can reuse most of your code and just like change the interface to ‘application’ instead of ‘web’ right?”

Web app was written in PHP on a LAMP stack. Fun times!

]]> By: Ian Clifton http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/07/18/content-owners-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-110285 Ian Clifton Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:03:36 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=454#comment-110285 From what I hear, that works especially well when the random tips are often out of context for the particular page... From what I hear, that works especially well when the random tips are often out of context for the particular page…

]]> By: Pig Monkey http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/07/18/content-owners-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-110284 Pig Monkey Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:09:42 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=454#comment-110284 You know what makes the information even easier to get to? Random tips. That change color. Maybe with a picture of a guy in a hat. You know what makes the information even easier to get to? Random tips. That change color. Maybe with a picture of a guy in a hat.

]]> By: Ian Clifton http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/07/18/content-owners-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-110283 Ian Clifton Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:36:40 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=454#comment-110283 "Normal users" was sort of a mix of the two as the original focus was on users in general, but my pseudo-ranting started going more towards content owners, since they've been causing me headaches lately. As much as I can enjoy web development, I'm quite glad to leave it behind (as a job) in a month or so. I wish the average person understood your final two thoughts. That's the biggest problem I see: People thinking they can treat the web like some big magazine. People come to a site for specific information in most cases (and especially in the cases I've been working on) and they don't want to read paragraphs and paragraphs, pages and pages of text. Headings, bold, lists, etc. all make the information easier to get to and skim for and that's what the end users want. “Normal users” was sort of a mix of the two as the original focus was on users in general, but my pseudo-ranting started going more towards content owners, since they’ve been causing me headaches lately. As much as I can enjoy web development, I’m quite glad to leave it behind (as a job) in a month or so.

I wish the average person understood your final two thoughts. That’s the biggest problem I see: People thinking they can treat the web like some big magazine. People come to a site for specific information in most cases (and especially in the cases I’ve been working on) and they don’t want to read paragraphs and paragraphs, pages and pages of text. Headings, bold, lists, etc. all make the information easier to get to and skim for and that’s what the end users want.

]]> By: Robert Stone http://blog.gordaen.com/2008/07/18/content-owners-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-110281 Robert Stone Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:59:39 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/?p=454#comment-110281 Ian, In the opening paragraph, do you mean: "the difference in knowledge that developers have compared to" content owners OR unaffiliated searchers -- which ones are the "normal users" here. Too much on one page slows the page's coming up and also dilutes the value of searching for terms on that page. Long paragraphs and no headings does not lead to viewer appreciation. Robert Ian,

In the opening paragraph, do you mean:

“the difference in knowledge that developers have compared to” content owners OR unaffiliated searchers — which ones are the “normal users” here.

Too much on one page slows the page’s coming up and also dilutes the value of searching for terms on that page.

Long paragraphs and no headings does not lead to viewer appreciation.

Robert

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