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Topic: What is most important for a site?
Posted By: Bluefrog
Subject: What is most important for a site?
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 8:51am

Of course content is always king, but other than that, what do you think is most important for a successful web site?

e.g.
eslcafe.com is a crappy site, but is VERY popular
many sites look very nice, but are difficult to use
some sites have great content, but are tough to find
some sites crash your browser

The list goes on...

 



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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 9:01am
Its great for a technician to have a great backend, but the punter on the street doesnt give a damn.  For your audience, next to content design is the most important thing. (IMO)


Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 9:48am
I find site most attractice when the information I want is easy to find. Design is 2nd but I hate sites where my search returns the most stupid results.

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 10:56am
I have to vote navigation, 4guysfromrolla.com is great for learning but i can never find what i awnt because of their navigation


Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 12:07pm
It's kind of hard to say because in a good site design, all aspects are tied in together... so i would say that you either do it right...or you do it wrong.


Posted By: faubo
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 12:24pm

navigation

but a good navigation includes a nice (or at least clean) design.



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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 12:48pm
Id say the other way round, a good design includes good nav


Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 24 November 2003 at 1:04pm
The best sites obviously have a good all rounder but as long as it has good content and good nav im happy

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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 25 November 2003 at 3:03am

I think navigation is important as some sites don’t seam to get to the point. If you are looking for drivers sometimes you have to be like inspector clueso to find them. Controls, Links and the constant location of them is important if you move them around on each page you will upset the visitor. I also feal the more you have to click away from the main page (4xpages or more) this can add to the frustration as well. One more thing I am finding hard to keep up with is checking all links work. Move only one page and that can mean a long time changing all links and you will miss one. Dreamwever helps but don’t work to well when you have to input your link as a URL.



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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 25 November 2003 at 9:34am

Originally posted by michael michael wrote:

I find site most attractice when the information I want is easy to find. Design is 2nd but I hate sites where my search returns the most stupid results.

Are we complaining about microsoft.com or msdn.microsoft.com? And the complete inability of anyone to every find anything there?

I always have to go to google or msn.com to search for something on the microsoft site.



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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 25 November 2003 at 9:38am

All Microsoft related searches are the same result "No can find!!!"



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Posted By: joshualane
Date Posted: 25 November 2003 at 9:57am
For me, I always think about Web Design & Development as akin to what is involved in opening a store (ie, Borders, Target, Best Buy, etc). Here's a simple breakdown of what I consider important...

Web Site --- vs --- Store/Business
1. Content -------- 1. Products (what is being sold?)
2. Navigation ------ 2. Store Arrangement (what goes where?)
3. Coding --------- 3. Architecture/Building Structure
4. Design --------- 4. Interior/Exterior Design
5. Search --------- 5. Marketing/Promotion



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