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Through the Eyes of a Novice
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David_Dunlap on 21 December, 2009 09:36:00
 
(WebHost Blog) If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch someone who has
never even thought about HTML or coding create a web site, I highly recommend
it. Especially if you are a programmer, web designer, web host, customer
service, well any job or hobby that has to do with web sites. The amount you can
learn and the frustrations you can see in a few days can make long lasting
impressions.
Little things we take for granted or have learned to work around get brought to
the for. For me it happened when a friend of mine had to make a web site for
school and asked for my help. I pointed her in the direction of FrontPage or
Dreamweaver and told her just use the tools and you too can make a basic web
site!
Well as you can imagine it didn’t go as well as planned. In the end, I ended
up teaching her HTML and CSS instead.
Now there is of course a point to all of this. I notice a lot of software
packages are calling themselves easy to use or intuitive or well you get the
picture. I wonder how many of these ultra easy to use suites have actually taken
people who have never used them and actually have them put it through their
paces.
And then still further. I want to know which companies actually took notes and
implemented things. For instance, one thing I notice in myself as well as others
is the desire to skip welcoming and tutorial screens and get right to it.
How many companies spent months working on the tutorial screen only to have
those it was directed at helping close it out and immediately get lost? I would
imagine it is quite a few and that is most unfortunate.
Therefore I ponder a question, how hard would it be to make software that
conforms to us not us having to conform to the software?
About David Dunlap
Over the past ten years David has been a prolific author of hundreds of blogs,
commentaries and reviews found here on WebHostBlog.com, as well as
WebHostMagazine.com and other sites around the Internet. David manages the daily
operations at both WebHostBlog and Web Host Magazine & Buyer's Guide, and as the
head editor, David uses his unique analytical skills to ensure that both sites
maintain their integrity and tough, but fair minded, reputations. Prior to his
active career analyzing the Web Host industry, David specialized in networking
and communications for the U.S. government. David's expertise in traditional and
search engine marketing has helped boost companies both inside and outside of
the Web Host industry.