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"The cost of creating a website, even a $500 design over a CMS doesn't justify the cost." The question I guess is why restaurant owners spend money having flas
by jdminhbg 16y ago
"The cost of creating a website, even a $500 design over a CMS doesn't justify the cost."
The question I guess is why restaurant owners spend money having flash monstrosities built when most users -- especially those on mobile devices, which is a big use-case for restaurant websites -- would rather see plain-jane HTML with an address, phone number, and menu.
"The nephew of some restaurant owner finally convinces him or her that the restaurant needs a website."
I suspect this is closer to the truth. The restaurant owner demographic probably runs in the same circles as the dilettante designer demographic, so the site is built by a wait(er|ress) with a copy of Flash CS.
- zacstewart 16y agoSo true. I designed a site for a restaurant while working there as a delivery driver. The site, sucks, and I'm aware of that, but for the hassle of physically meeting with the owner to get the specific on an update about a Christmas party update or the unwillingness to pay something worth 10 hours of work per month I'm not really going to try to improve it. I have a job at a web agency now and doing anything better than what's there simply wouldn't make since.
- alanh 16y agoTotally. Earlier in my web development career I re-sold hosting to a friend who, as a waitress, did the website for the place she worked. It was pretty terrible, stale, hard to update, and had (I think) BMP format scanned menus. Eventually she was fired and I was dragged into a horrible mess over who actually owned the site, when my friend asked me to take it down (she was the only one I ever dealt with).
- bdclimber14 16y agoI agree, that's why it's Flash too. Beginning designers statistically think the flashier (no pun intended) the design, the better.