Posts written by: AeTH17
Apparently Historical Societies everywhere still dont understand how to get the younger generations to participate in their museums. This is a perfect example of how to get younger generations into History; the posters are short, simple, interesting, edgy, and they actually make you think about what the message is and why it is cool. I know that it is hard for the older more conservative generations to find this kind of thing acceptable, but the younger generations are the ones they need to be appealing to in order to keep their interests alive past their time.
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Dr. Nielsen makes the argument that search engines “rule the web” based on statistics that show that web users are much less patient with websites, using search engines to bring them within the website directory to the content they want. However, I dont think that people are more impatient with websites than they used to be, I think that people just want to be rewarded for going on to a website. By rewarded I dont mean given something physical, I mean that they want satisfaction and interaction from the site. For example, facebook and instagram are popular more or less for their “like” buttons; the more likes you get the more you will want to post on these sites. Being able to comment on information is also a good way to keep people on a site, whether it be by contributing themselves or reading other people’s contributions. I think that a static site is as deadly to users attention as an interactive site is rewarding feeling to the same user.
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In a lot of freelance front end job postings i see that people are looking for people with experience in search engine optimization and always assumed that it would be important to learn in the web design community. However, the author of this article makes some very good points about the over exaggerated “necessity” of SEOs. One of the most important thing he mentioned was that SEOs, “can be so close to marketing and yet remain entirely oblivious of it” which made me realize that SEOs dont actually create any sort of campaign or name for their businesses, they are just sort of a dated way of keyword search that may have been useful in a web 1.0 world. It has been proven many times that keyword optimization in websites can be fooled in search engines so where is this idea of SEOs being supremely important for web developers coming from? I think that for the most part people are just uneducated about usefulness of SEOs and web developers looking for a job just used it as a way to make them more appealing to hire than someone without SEO knowledge. I think the demand for people with SEO experience will stay around for the next few years, but eventually social media expertise will take over.
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“Everything is designed, few things are designed well.”
-Brian Reed
