Comments on: Is the five page static website dead?

By: Drums Video

Drums Video — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:14:41 +0000

Amen to the end of the 5 page websites. You are absolutely right about the need for content management. “Content is king” becomes more true each day.

By: web design nowich

web design nowich — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:35:37 +0000

The worst thing I hate about the class ‘five pager’ is the generic, undescriptive nav of: Home, About us, Services, Testimonials, and Contact us. I always try to ensure websites have descriptive text in their nav

By: Waukesha Website Design

Waukesha Website Design — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:55:37 +0000

What a fascinating subject. I would say about 1 out of every ten prospective clients who contact us are interested in nothing more than a 5-page site. We try to encourage them to have more pages to increase their long-tail search ranking opportunities. In general, you are right – most clients want to move beyond the 5-pager because they want to renovate their old 5-page site into something more! Today’s typical website visitor expects more “wow” from a site.

By: Print Buying Direct

Print Buying Direct — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:51:55 +0000

I agree – we have even learnt dreamweaver to make our own website amends – I don’t think we have done too shoddy a job! Click our link and give me feedback maybe??

By: Robin Lozano | slendertone belt

Robin Lozano | slendertone belt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:35:52 +0000

I think it is now time to have something more than a static site. I still remember when I was very happy to build sites in simple html and javascript but now everything has been changes. We can customize our wordpress blogs into directories and can sell the stuff. I think there is nothing easy than that because it can be done without any effort with help of plugoins. We can do it even better in Drupal.

By: Website Design Luton

Website Design Luton — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:28:29 +0000

These days a website design needs to be optimised for search engines. Those web pages that have key words in the title have more chance of getting higher in the listings. Giving the customer access to all content is a mistake as key word density goes out of the picture. I would agree that the old days of producing a 5 page website are gone, but there are other reasons why!

By: George Barr

George Barr — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:47:35 +0000

Hi, I have over 25 years experience in the computer industry, I can even remember paper tape, coding sheets and the like. I still hand knit my code, it saves having to debug code generated problems. I know exactly what and where every thing is.
It does not matter is you are talking CSS or a script, take an old mans advice; avoid code generation software until you have master your art.
regards
George

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By: admin

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:47:49 +0000

Hi Matt, thanks for the comment!

I would say that as long as you have a good understanding of the CSS you’re using, it doesn’t matter if you have a code ‘library’ as it were. If it speeds up development, and it is appropriate to use it, go for it!

I would encourage everyone learning web design / development to hand code as much as possible rather than use a WYSIWIG editor though – that’s the way to really gain an understanding of what you’re doing.

Cheers, John

By: matt

matt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:52:36 +0000

Hi. How much of the web design you do is based on remembering and hand-typing CSS / PHP and how much is done using visual editing, cut/paste from a file of your favorite saved codes and then tweaking them?
I use CSS, but I have a collection of my commonly used CSS and can cut/paste it in to pages and later tweak them. I use Dreamweaver mostly. I’m wondering what would qualify me to say I can use CSS on a CV.

Thanks for your help.