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- Martin Simpson
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- President Blue-Eyed Panda LLC
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I have a client who has advisors that are telling her that the rockettheme.com template site I have deployed is actually not as good as her original site that is live now. My site is on my development servers.
I assume this person advising her is a respectable person that has valid input and that she trusts this person's opinion.
Basically, the conclusion of the outside input though is somewhat alarming to me.
The feedback was they like the old site better -- literally just better -- based on the logic that Google is the most popular site because it's so simple -- and the new template from RT is too flashy compared to what google does.
I don't want to just jump on this outsider's input and crush it with venom --- what I want is hard data and well advised words to give to her to give back to that person giving her the input.
Please try and provide a logical based argument that doesn't include the obvious -- "Holy Cow, the RT site just looks so much more professional..."
Here are the two sites to compare.
Live Site ---- bit.ly/cho2iR
and my development site
escrs.midphase.com/~funnyles/cleancomedychallenge
One obvious flaw to me in the live-site is that the navigation doesn't stick with you --- meaning you have the menu disappear and have to click the back button a few spots etc... - President of Blue-Eyed Panda Website Design Services
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- cdavis411
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re: the google comparison (one could add facebook, or craigslist to that sentiment)
The reason for very limited graphic and scripting for such sites is because of the ridiculous amount of traffic that they handle. The type of site you are dealing with here is never going to need to handle 500,000,000 users in a given day.
Often times clients will defer to the advice of the most technically proficient person they know. Often times that person is not very proficient at all.
there is a brief and interesting article on this here: www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/123...lain_html_sites.html
My take to this egg and hen issue is there is no concrete guideline. Sure, you have to put in content, but presentation of content along with image totally depend upon your industry and your target audience. I will illustrate two examples.
edit: P.S. How about comparing your clients site to something that is hugely successful and the target market is more comparable than the hugely broad range of Google.
like: disney.go.com/index or universalstudios.com/ or www.americanidol.com/auditions/ or www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent/
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