Comments on: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/ Gary Barber rants on user experience, and the controlled chaos of the Web Industry Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:19:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Callum Jones http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-2815 Callum Jones Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:45:01 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/#comment-2815 I think one the issues is the hosted services revolution and CMS systems. CMS and blog software make it so easy to depoly and install layouts that they will be happy to find one online than hire a developer to create one. With things like Sharepoint and Typo3 anyone in IT can take over the reigns for around an hire each week to keep the company site updated. Sadly the price for a developer may need to come down, or more devlopers need to begin support contracts for CMSes. With Blogger and Wordpress, a company could effectively communicate it's current state through a clean/simple blog rather than dedicate money and server space to a website that may not be updated much or accessed regularly: it could be just there for a phone number. God knows when companies will flock to MySpace. (Oh god) OSWD.org is also making some headway in eliminating designers, by offering such a large design base. I think one the issues is the hosted services revolution and CMS systems. CMS and blog software make it so easy to depoly and install layouts that they will be happy to find one online than hire a developer to create one.

With things like Sharepoint and Typo3 anyone in IT can take over the reigns for around an hire each week to keep the company site updated. Sadly the price for a developer may need to come down, or more devlopers need to begin support contracts for CMSes.

With Blogger and WordPress, a company could effectively communicate it’s current state through a clean/simple blog rather than dedicate money and server space to a website that may not be updated much or accessed regularly: it could be just there for a phone number.

God knows when companies will flock to MySpace. (Oh god)

OSWD.org is also making some headway in eliminating designers, by offering such a large design base.

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Sue

]]> By: Nathanael http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-2809 Nathanael Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:49:07 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/#comment-2809 I can't bring myself to do it - but I know I'm going to have to start turning clients away in order to a) keep my sanity and health, and b) ensure quality in the projects I'm currently working on. Luckily though I just engaged a subcontractor PHP/MySQL developer (who was also at BarCampSydney2 yesterday), so that'll take quite a bit of the load and stress off me. I can’t bring myself to do it – but I know I’m going to have to start turning clients away in order to a) keep my sanity and health, and b) ensure quality in the projects I’m currently working on.

Luckily though I just engaged a subcontractor PHP/MySQL developer (who was also at BarCampSydney2 yesterday), so that’ll take quite a bit of the load and stress off me.

]]> By: Kevin Lawver http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-2808 Kevin Lawver Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:08:27 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/#comment-2808 I've started picking my battles a little more carefully, and for the first time in a long time (maybe ever) having to say "no" a lot. I don't like it, but I've been burned out before and it's no fun. There's no real reason for me to go nuts saying yes to everything - because it's either less important than something else, or it's something that will be there when I have the time. I’ve started picking my battles a little more carefully, and for the first time in a long time (maybe ever) having to say “no” a lot. I don’t like it, but I’ve been burned out before and it’s no fun. There’s no real reason for me to go nuts saying yes to everything – because it’s either less important than something else, or it’s something that will be there when I have the time.

]]> By: Myles Eftos http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/comment-page-1/#comment-2807 Myles Eftos Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:05:52 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/08/25/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/#comment-2807 Does the fact that I'm working on a Saturday night at midnight give you a clue as to how I'm finding it? WA has two problems as I see it. 1. Lots of the good people move away. This isn't as much of a problem at the moment because the industry is pumping and there is money kicking around. In fact, there are some coming back... 2. We are in between an education cycle. It takes 3-4 years for students to get educated up. The Unis and TAFEs only got serious about the web (i.e more than a passing reference) about 1-2 years ago. In a couple of years, there were be an influx of web type people ready for work. Hopefully there is still this much work still around. This crazyness would have happened irrespective of the current economic boom - the boom just made it stupidly crazy. Does the fact that I’m working on a Saturday night at midnight give you a clue as to how I’m finding it?

WA has two problems as I see it.

1. Lots of the good people move away. This isn’t as much of a problem at the moment because the industry is pumping and there is money kicking around. In fact, there are some coming back…

2. We are in between an education cycle. It takes 3-4 years for students to get educated up. The Unis and TAFEs only got serious about the web (i.e more than a passing reference) about 1-2 years ago. In a couple of years, there were be an influx of web type people ready for work. Hopefully there is still this much work still around.

This crazyness would have happened irrespective of the current economic boom – the boom just made it stupidly crazy.

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