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Using, Users & Used

I divide the internet into users, and Users. A third group exists, but not on-line – these are the non-users.

Thinking it through for once

Scary, Eh?  It does not need to be.The non-users are the borderline phobics who avoid the internet as the incomprehensible, money-sucking techno-jungle it sometimes seems to be.  Nothing more than a fashionable gimmick for exploitation by the technically elite "in" crowd - with themselves very much numbered in the "out" crew. 
The techno-jungle myth is perpetuated by “Users” in both senses of the word (Perhaps Users?   ) who seek to create an artificial need for essentially unnecessary services that they can sell to “users” – who finally run out of faith, money or patience and eventually become thouroughly discouraged and often millitant non-users.

Speaking as someone with a major vested interest in ever increasing numbers of people wanting to use the internet and - ideally - having a website (two websites would be better) I see this as a breathtakingly short-sighted and totally counterproductive approach to the future of the internet in Cyprus or indeed anywhere else on the planet. 
So - on this site are articles I have written with this issue in mind and a bunch of free software you are most welcome to help yourself to.
Please enjoy :-)

From user to User is a far shorter step than you might imagine, blow away the smoke and empower yourself.


Let's all go a little crazy and think about messing with the wide range of possibilities between "corporate bland" sites from mass produced templates and "design extravaganzas" that initially impress and subsequently frustrate, especially when you get the bill from the designer for the updates.
These polar extremes of web design are all too common - and seldom successful.

The four L's are the driving principals - Loadable, Legible, Logical and Livable.
The site needs to load fast on any reasonable connection, read well and be clear in terms of meaning and intent, make sense to read and to navigate and not wear out the viewers patience until they would rather boil their head than put up with another visit to your slow, hard to understand, bemusing, frustrating and essentially annoying on-line presence that your webmaster was so proud of.

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Posted by Englesos

Posted on 17:47, Monday, July 26

Made for walking, man.

OK - enough.  The new "upgrade" for PHPWS resplendant with new name but old mistakes should be out soon and it looks like I'm going to miss the party.

Too bad.

Well pissed off, dudes.

Posted by Englesos

Posted on 21:04, Sunday, June 13

How off-pissing is that?

Its said of the human species that when we do something and it doesn't work - we then do it again but louder, harder and stronger and in anticipation of a different result.

How many darn times am I going to have this demonstrated to me?

From Scratch or Even Worse

Posted by Englesos

Posted on 17:07, Sunday, February 21

You mean its NOT tastefully subtle?

Sometimes it helps when a punter has his artwork set to go - logo, colour scheme etc. 

It means less work for me......in theory. 

Christmas? More like the 25th of December....

Posted by Englesos

Posted on 09:34, Saturday, January 2

Burning the darn thing?  Solid idea.

If you remember Ronnie Barker in Porridge, there was an eipsode where he was told to "Forget Christmas - this year there will only be the 24th, 25th and 26th of December."

Been there - done that.

If it aint one thing....

Posted by Englesos

Posted on 23:29, Wednesday, October 7

Too much time on some peoples hands these days

So - PHPWS finally gets the lead out and everything in the proverbial garden is at least approaching lovely....and my fewkin server gets hacked.  People with too much time on their hands and too few smarts to use their talents productively.  
Or else the seriously anarchic but profoundly immature showing us all that chaos is just outside the door.  

Oh yeah....just epic....like we never realised....thanks.

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I enjoyed writing Webmasters Excuses 101 - Hang around for the ten most goggle-worthy things I have been asked by clients.....It's all a question of balance, you see :-)

And sure enough here we are, with a dose of client reality therapy from Englesos - and before you ask - yes, it happens!  Over the last ten years all of these statements - and others even dumber - have been run past my disbelieving ears.  Usually just before I started to laugh.....



 




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