I agree with Kriss that the same situation would apply here. Also,
although I agree it's an interesting approach I would doubt we could
sustain an appropriate level interest from a web design agency in
which the designers seem to turn over regularly.
At 10:11 +0100 10/6/10, Paul Boag wrote:
>That is interesting Kriss. I would have thought a small ongoing
>expenditure would be much easier to get approval for than a large
>project.
>
>On 10 June 2010 10:07, K Fearon <<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>That's an interesting approach.
>
>I think at least one reason this kind of thing happens less in HE is
>due to budgeting arrangements: a redesign can be treated (and
>funded) like a single one-off project and there may not be the
>money/time for ongoing work.
>
>Kriss
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>On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Paul Boag wrote:
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>Hey guys,
>Marieke has just published a post I have written for the IWMW blog...
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><http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/06/plenary-6-time-to-hire-a-web-design-agency/>http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/06/plenary-6-time-to-hire-a-web-design-agency/
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>To be honest this is a bit of a personal one born out of my own frustrations
>really. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on it. Although I
>work in this way with many of my commercial clients it doesn't seem to
>happen in HE and I am interested why.
>
>Thanks,
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