> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, C.K.Work wrote:
Andrew Savory said ..
> I think there is also a post somewhere between the last two - a general
> "web wizard" who lives and breathes HTML, ASP, HTTP, Perl etc. Without a
> good knowledge of what's going on at the page level you can't hope to be
> an effective system support person, and vice-versa. At least, not if you
> want to keep abreast of new trends like dynamic pages, backend databases
> etc!
Yes ...ish - the Info Manager needs recourse to this expertise, and is
probably better to rely on someone who lives WWW rather than try and do
it themselves. But I do worry about technology being the driver - too
many sites do things because they are technically possible, not because
they meet a service need. The sequence should always be "I want to
present this message in this way" to which the support team provides the
best tecnological answer available. Too often sites which were doing
exactly what was intended of them get changed because the techies have
found a new toy. (of course there is the converse were the info manager
is too slow to take up a technology which would offer new benefits - but
that's another issue).
Colin
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