Comments on: Blogs Will Kill The Web Design Star

By: web support agent

web support agent — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:41:34 +0000

hi Bill… i know what you wanted to say. i agree with you. blogs are very common now a days. i also have blogs. i can relate on what you have stated here. in my blog, i can choose templates whatever i want. and i can change it anytime. i just click and that’s it, no need for me to change the code or everything just to get what i wanted to happen on my blog. it’s in the page already. but there are also others that really code to build their websites. in our school, we code using HTML to build a site. but later on, we use dreamweaver to do it. others are dependent also in the net. that’s really the fact of life. the things really change and we can’t change that fact. have a nice day!

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By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:32:17 +0000

Bill, excellent article …. I think you make some great observations about the web and hit our business on the head! Thanks for the links.

By: billseaver

billseaver — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:27:06 +0000

Thanks Eric. You guys do great stuff and I certainly see Newfangled Web Factory as one of the great companies doing big, bad, complex websites. I think the way you guys approach website development will keep you around for a long time.

You also bring up a good point about the enduring need for web strategy. With the easy access to tools the need for people to simply come along side and provide strategic help may very well become a small industry itself.

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By: Eric Holter

Eric Holter — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:26:27 +0000

Hi Bill. I agree with much of what you’re saying here and I especially see the benefits of inexpensive yet robust solutions like Word Press for the small business. No doubt, design and programming services will feel the pressure as solutions like this become viable platforms.

However, I’ve always said (in anticipation of the day when the killer, dirt-simple web development platform arrives) that skilled and experienced web designers and development companies will still be worth their pay. That’s because most companies, even if they have the tools and ability to build a website on their own, simply don’t know how to best use the tools.

And I don’t think the final resulting site needs to necessarily be terribly complex (Word Press might still be a viable technological platform) yet the strategy, structure, positioning and content strategy may still need to be quite sophisticated.

Serious web strategy and implementation is extremely costly to companies (in terms of time and opportunity cost, not just money). So hiring an expert firm with lots of experience is well worth their financial investment. Free platforms may reduce aspects of an overall web development project’s cost, but expertise will always come at a premium that’s well worth the investment.

Of course this opinion is from an owner of a one of the “Big, Bad, Complex Website Specialists.”

Thanks for calling attention to Word Press, it is indeed developing into a fantastic option for low cost development platforms!