Monday, March 17, 2008

Tracking my progress

I'm looking through our 2 projects thus far and haven't found anything that I've had problems with. More often than not it's the organization of a particular website that needs to be figured out, and not an actual problem if there is one.

There are sometimes when I think that having a "standard" organizational model for websites would be helpful, but then that goes against everything the internet is. Publishing yourself has the added feature of being able to make things look and feel the way you want them to, rather than conforming to the standards and practices that are in place already. So while I think well defined organization is great, I also value the freedom to think outside the box.

2 comments:

Sno-Isle Libraries 20 for 2.0 said...

I used to run this all the time when I worked in a branch. Folks would get frustrated with a website and say something to the effect of, "this doesn't make sense, why is this so hard?" I'd remind them that the site was designed by people and everyone has differing ideas about what makes things easier or harder--and sometimes people just don't design good websites. Patrons wanted to blame it on 'the internet' forgetting that the internet, is people not machines.

Abec Five said...

To an extent. The people and the machines are definitely becoming harder and harder to distinguish.