Anyway, as I read through the assigned reading, "making a website. - general guide to what goes into making a website." I looked back over my 20 year career as a professional web designer/developer and all the times I written out plans such as that for the various companies I worked. It also made me go back to my own website and re-read an article I wrote back in 1997 after so many frustrating arguments with my then boss. The process of professional web design and development was still new and the browser wars made for a living hell. Add to the a boss who approached it with "make me a website that looks good" and "I have a new client I told we could make him a website by the end of the week. His company's name is XXXX. So I need you to design one ASAP!"
Now you may be wondering what is really so madding about those statements; well it was the fact that was ALL the information we were given to work with! Other than a company name and logo, we had no process implemented. Over and over I would argue with him on why not only did there need to be a process but that above all content is king. Finally I wrote a memo to him and the department I was over entitled "Four Steps to Successful Design", which can be read on the freelance portion of my website. Yes I know I have no updated my own web site since 2003 or so and the freelance portions since 2007. (after so many years of making others websites I got burned out on my own).
Without trying to blow my own horn here, but I will any way, I am struck with just how relevant my memo is and how together I was back then before there were any colleges or universities even offering classes, much less degrees, in web design and development.
So what does all this mean? Well like so many blogs out there, not really a damn thing other than this old biddy once more bitching and bragging. . . just like the vast majority of all the other blogs out there, just bitching and bragging.
