Thursday, May 6, 2010

Share your wisdom

In a life all kinds of situations present themselves.
Fortunately we are equipped with a brain that contains fantasy, inventiveness, creativity and is usually capable of logical thinking.

Nevertheless, situations may arise that one is at a loss deciding what to do.
How to handle the matter.

But then there are friends to ask advice.
Who may have more experience or a better perspective.
To shine a light for the way out.

Like this situation.
Several years ago a website designer was asked to build a new website for the pioneering photographer.
The www.szulc.info with everything one wants to know about P.P.'s photography and life.

The idea was to make the openings page look like the screen of an iPhone.
At the time, a device that had suddenly become very popular.

Fervent and loyal blog readers who have visited this website remember how they saw an iPhone full of icons that could be clicked on to proceed to particular sections of the information.

Several months ago a very trusted person proposed to have a critical look at this website.
And have it re-designed once more.
To have the website more simple and direct.
And made not with the software program Wordpress but with Dreamweaver.
So that updates would be extremely simple to make.

Recently the new website opened.
And it looks terrific.
Open and clear.
Easy to navigate.

But now an e-mail is received from the designer that build the iPhone-like website.
He says that the new website is simple and amateurish.
That it is a sin his design was replaced.
And he asks: "Why did you do this?"

Now, fervent and loyal blog readers: what to do?
Ignore the e-mail and the question of the disappointed designer?
Or reply at length?



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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Reply saying as time changes so Websites etc. have to. Things become the norm and then change freshens everything up."

Richard S-K

Fred Wishnie said...

The only thing for an open, honest wandering artist to do is respond with the reasons you decided to change, and let the original designer accept them or not. It's your site and your vision after all, why would he expect it should remain the way he wants?