** Reply to note from Richard King <[log in to unmask]> Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:44:15 +0100
> I've been tasked with finding a firm of consultants who can advise us on
> how we might re-structure our website in order to make it 'easier to find
> things'.
>
> I have been given the name of a few companies, but am a little put-off by
> the fact that their own corporate websites are usually loaded with
> Shockwave Flash and Javascript bells, whistles and gizmos and show little
> sign of being either accessible or easy to navigate! (Even they sometimes
> admit that this is for 'management to management marketing'!)
>
> Am I on a 'fools errand' or is there anyone out there who might be worth
> talking to??
>
> I've already put forward to management some of the sites that I think are
> worth emulating (some of the best UK academic sites) but these are felt to
> look 'boring' or .... insufficiently 'expensive' or... something!
>
> TIA for any suggestions..
Good Lord. What next?
Hi,
What you need is a tighter (prettier) website where the menus/choices are clearer
etc. That is nothing with the structure of the site. You, the publishers of the
information are probably best placed to decide what information you want to push
and so on.
Forget the info. consultants get a good designer to do you some pretty candy ...
which you would have to do anyway, save the rest of the money and use them to
save some beasties facing extinction.
In the meantime stop calling yourselves BAS (as in Basil Faulty), Daft.
An invoice for œ300 + VAT is on its way to you :-)
Charles
PS. Feels like Friday.
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