
Look around the web, you’ll find them all over the place. MS-Word and PDF forms that you have to download and complete. I would be forgiven for thinking that we have not progressed on the web since 1995.
I know I’m not perfect I have been party to this crime against UX as well.
We know they are bad, so why are we still using them.
Let’s Consider
You’re feel inspired to join a professional association. The website seems pretty good, it lists all the benefits. There is a professional air about it. You can see that some of your respected peers are already members.
Tagged: cms, forms, frameworks, MS-Word, p-52, p52, PDF, project-52, usability, user experience, ux

Now that, WA Web Week is well and truely put to bed, with Edge of the Web, WebJam9 and the WA Web Awards done and dusted; it’s now time to inject some life back into this blog. Yes the posts have been a bit scant of late. Sorry about that, the real world has been getting in the way.
So you have a site that you have lovingly designed coded and integrated into your CMS of choice. You’ve delivered it to the client, perfect. Not a pixel, word or image out of place, following industry best practice. A work of art, electro-prefecto.
We all know about open source software. The seemingly endless libraries of code and applications ready to use and implement into a business environment. Now colleague Myles Eftos has been discussing the use of open source applications and there implementations of late. This debate is an old as the hills, but still from time to time it’s good to pull it out of the draw, dust it off and start the discussion off again.
Originating, in a previous life, from a development background I can understand where Myles is coming from and his passion for not having to club together and open source modified solution. However consider:
Tagged: applications, budget, cms, developers, frameworks, joomla, libraries, opensource, OS, oscommerce, php