{"id":1743,"date":"2007-06-18T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/website-decisions-andchanges"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:19:37","slug":"website-decisions-andchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/website-decisions-andchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Decisions and Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was in a meeting with a client the other week, and we were talking about our technology choices, made in the course of developing the current version of their site. I was basically trying to talk them into a \u201csite refresh,\u201d feeling that the technologies supporting their current site weren\u2019t serving them as well as they should be.<\/p>\n
This is a hard sell, especially when you are the person who helped choose those technologies! Sure, the client always has opinions, and those sometimes aren\u2019t as flexible as you would like. But time marches on, and so does technology. A few years ago, we were all about making websites 100% Flash. We still love building those websites, and many of my favorite Needmore projects are those sites. In fact, the site belonging to the client in question is one of those very sites<\/em>!<\/p>\n So how do you talk them into changing?<\/p>\n During that meeting I uttered a quote (and I\u2019m surely not the first to say this) that I remember quite well. \u201cWe make the best decisions we can based on the information that is available to us at the time.\u201d<\/strong> That means that it is entirely possible for times to change, and for better ways of doing things to come along. When we and our client decided upon the Flash-based site, there were several distinct advantages:<\/p>\n Yet over time, we found a greater number of disadvantages that would be addressed by an HTML-based site.<\/p>\n\n
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