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I'm seeing that some of this is being driven by web developer shops who are telling clients that this is how things must be done. I was sent a 600MB chunk of c

I'm seeing that some of this is being driven by web developer shops who are telling clients that this is how things must be done. I was sent a 600MB chunk of crud today to be hosted that required a full lamp stack to build a web app that could have been done very nicely by a four page static site that worked well on mobile. This is has insane. These design shops (not all) don't care about building sites that help their customers, they only want to produce eye-candy that they think makes their portfolios look cool.

leksak 9y ago
When you are a hammer everything looks like a nail. Sometimes it may just be ignorance at play, I used WordPress before I handcrafted a static site.
dabockster 9y ago
> they only want to produce eye-candy that they think makes their portfolios look cool You got it. I'm finishing up a contract for one such firm that loves to use Wordpress for everything when 9/10 of their sites could be better served by static HTML pages and better CSS. But no, that's soooooo last decade, so the users get a Wordpress/Sass can of worms that requires entire LAMP and Node.js stacks to operate properly. I was thinking about rebuilding my portfolio site in a "responsive framework", but decided against it when I realized I can achieve the same effect with static HTML and separate CSS files for each page.