Mr. Zeldman has a beautiful editorial over at A List Apart regarding all the hype around “Web 2.0”.
A particularly inspiring quote:
…ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly and expensively labored to produce overly complex web applications whose usability was near nil on behalf of clients with at best vague goals. The realization that small, self-directed teams powered by Pareto’s Principle can quickly create sleeker stuff that works better is not merely bracing but dynamic.
“Big teams slowly and expensively labored to produce overly complex web applications whose usability was near nil….”
You get what you pay for
I’ve been curious as to how the axim “you get what you pay for” applies to Web design. I think this quote has helped me figure it out.
If you pay a huge corporate Web factory that has overly bloated infrastructure a small fortune to produce your Web site, you will get in return an huge, corporate-feeling, factory produced (i.e., looks the same as everything else), monstrosity of a Web site that has overly bloated code and an almost beureaucratic navigation system/site map.
If you pay a small-time amateur beans, you will get a small-time, amateur Web site that isn’t worth much.
If you pay a sleek, small, custom shop run by a few experts a reasonable amount of money, you will get a sleek, fast, custom, beautiful Web site.
This is almost always true.
Web Design, Design, Web, Web Standards, AJAX, Web 2.0
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