Every College Student Can Build a Website
Posted by Tom on Sunday, January 07, 2007 to Web Design & Usability, Random Thoughts
I’m currently skimming this book for a project I’m working on. As far as the subject matter is concerned, I would recommend the book. Here is the rub. On page 78 the author states: “There are several ways to build a website. You can hire an individual, (college students can typically do it for $100 or so), or you can hire a web design company (they can be very expensive).” On the next page she goes on to say: “If you can navigate your way through a program such as Microsoft Word, then you can build your own website.”
Where does this notion come from that every teenage cousin or college student can build a website? Sure, technically almost anybody could cut & paste some HTML together and upload it to a web server. But will the outcome constitute a website, especially one used as a business tool? Most definitely not. I don’t pretend to be a writer (well, maybe a very little bit), a real estate agent or plumber. Why then do most people pretend to have under-age web designers in the family?
The book devotes one chapter each on the value of copy writing and the importance of taking professional pictures, which I guess will then be housed by a website build “for $100 or so.” Not in my book.
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