Comments on: Crappy Site Design, Great Content: Is This Poor Social Media Optimization? http://www.techipedia.com/2007/crappy-site-design-great-content-is-this-poor-smo/ tamar weinberg is a social media consultant and tech geek at heart Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:01:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: patrick http://www.techipedia.com/2007/crappy-site-design-great-content-is-this-poor-smo/#comment-747 patrick Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:40:19 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/01/09/crappy-site-design-great-content-is-this-poor-smo/#comment-747 case in point: http://www.useit.com/ (my opinion) ;) case in point:

http://www.useit.com/

(my opinion)

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]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.techipedia.com/2007/crappy-site-design-great-content-is-this-poor-smo/#comment-679 Tamar Weinberg Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:57:12 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/01/09/crappy-site-design-great-content-is-this-poor-smo/#comment-679 Good point. RSS feeds are a savior when avoiding a design but still accessing good content. I suppose, then, my question extends to those sites that are not necessarily RSS friendly. Most sites that I would think the "average Joe" visits do not have RSS -- plus the average Joe doesn't even know what RSS is or how to use it. At that point, the issue goes back to a design vs. content issue. If the design is hideous or there are too many pop-up ads or whatever the case may be, despite that great content that he is aiming to access, Joe will likely find another site to visit. Good point. RSS feeds are a savior when avoiding a design but still accessing good content.

I suppose, then, my question extends to those sites that are not necessarily RSS friendly. Most sites that I would think the “average Joe” visits do not have RSS — plus the average Joe doesn’t even know what RSS is or how to use it. At that point, the issue goes back to a design vs. content issue. If the design is hideous or there are too many pop-up ads or whatever the case may be, despite that great content that he is aiming to access, Joe will likely find another site to visit.

]]> By: Techn0tic http://www.techipedia.com/2007/crappy-site-design-great-content-is-this-poor-smo/#comment-641 Techn0tic Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:34:32 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/01/09/crappy-site-design-great-content-is-this-poor-smo/#comment-641 As an ex-graphic designer (way back in the mists of time) I do tend to sit up and take notice when I see a beautifully designed site, however these days I'm far more interested in content and tend to rely on A huge collection of RSS feeds to browse the sites I like, only clicking through for the articles that really interest me. In this respect the design of the site is secondary. Having said that, many of the sites that I work on in my day-to-day are focused on marketing and branding where the content has to work in harmony with the design to deliver a key message quickly and draw the visitor in towards the target call to action. As an ex-graphic designer (way back in the mists of time) I do tend to sit up and take notice when I see a beautifully designed site, however these days I’m far more interested in content and tend to rely on A huge collection of RSS feeds to browse the sites I like, only clicking through for the articles that really interest me. In this respect the design of the site is secondary. Having said that, many of the sites that I work on in my day-to-day are focused on marketing and branding where the content has to work in harmony with the design to deliver a key message quickly and draw the visitor in towards the target call to action.

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