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Posted by G.E.M.P on 01/19/06 15:55
I had another CMS thought (CMS design and behavior is one of
my favorite subjects).
Slashdot ran a new item a day or two ago, about a UK
study suggesting websurfers judget websites in a few
nanoseconds. In other words, most surfers decide almost
instantly whether they want to continue exploring a
site or not.
That fits my own experience: that's what I do.
And one of the key nano-second decision makers for
me happens when my brower updates to yet another CMS
generated site, that not only looks just like a ten
thousand other such sites, it, like all of its cousins,
looks bad.
To be successful, CMS technology needs to provide more
administrative flexibility in layout design, and they need
to avoid those ugly three column, one or two horizontal
header rectangle layouts that all get filled with
jive random text.
It takes me about a nano second to recognize those sites,
and the first thing I do is click back to another tab, to
get away as fast as I can.
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