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Thanks, and I'm so glad to be here.
This is by far the most objective, friendly, serious directory I have found. I will do my best to participate, even though I am not an expert webmaster.
It's a pleasure to participate with such a professional, quality oriented group. Reviewing other websites is a new experience for me, this whole thing is new for me, and I'm sure I will be learning a great deal in the process.
I think that your methodology is a great solution to building a directory of quality sites. Everybody seems to have that as a goal, but from what I've been seeing on the net, they don't really make it.
I think that your methodology is a great solution to building a directory of quality sites. Everybody seems to have that as a goal, but from what I've been seeing on the net, they don't really make it.
Amen on both counts.
Welcome to the board. From what I've seen of your reviews, they're impartial, fair and frequent. I think those are the three requirements around here, but I'm still new too.
By the way, baggeroli, the "Quote" button on this page doesn't work. I typed the BBCode in manually. _________________ HEDir's Prince of Cool
By the way, baggeroli, the "Quote" button on this page doesn't work. I typed the BBCode in manually.
Yah, my previous programmer worked extensively on phpbb code to bring the forum to its present state. Some features got deleted during the modification work. Now i am working on bringing back the required features one by one. _________________ Evolution is always better than revolution. My attempt at Blogging!
I have to tell you guys that I find reviewing sites kind of fun and educational.. It's wonderful to see what is being done with this great tool, and to do it with a bit of a critical eye.
I realize that most of those involved here are professional SEOs or Webmasters, and really understand the nuts and bolts of website building and promotion. I don't, I'm just starting to learn and will probably never be an expert.
I am by profession an architect, and I see many parallels between the making of a website and the making of a building. Both have a specific problem solving agenda, with a series of givens to work with. It takes a leap of creativity backed by years of experience to suggest a working solution. Then, it takes the maturity to quickly judge the effects of a proposed path, step back, reconsider, redo, erase, or start from the beginning again, and then move forward. But only to the next step in the development of the solution, to again quickly judge the effects of this group of decisions.
In architecture we work with very general ideas at first. Sometimes a phenomenal building "concept" can be sketched in just a few seconds on a napkin! A mature architect can judge the many consequenses of his first sketches by stepping back and analyzing what he has done. This process becomes a very quick "create, step back and judge, modify" process, which gets repeated endless times. I have always been fascinated by the "problem solving" methodology that I was taught, kind of haphazardly, at school, and how some of my coleagues never got it.
One of the biggest mistakes that is made by a young architect is "falling in love with" or "getting stuck on" a concept, and not predicting adequately the consequences in the final solution. The first "step back and judge" should also include a "dump everything and start again" option. I think this happens in webdesign as well. Advancing with the technical details of a bad concept, no matter how technically proficient you are, will not lead to a good building.
The "dump everything" option should always be available, but it becomes more and more difficult and expensive to take this route as the project advances. That is why I like spending as much time as necessary at the beginning, conceptual part of a project, way before getting into any kind of detailing.
Another parallel that I see has to do with separating the technical prowess from the conceptual design. No amount of engineering (civil, electrical, systems, lighting, etc..) will make a bad building become a great work of architecture. At the same time, leaky roofs, short circuited electrical feeds, incorrectly analyzed structures, can make a good architectural concept no only unpleasant but also very dangerous.
Sorry to ramble on like this, but thought that some of you guys would appreciate these thoughts on problem solving.....
So what the hell am I doing making a site on Blue Jeans? That's another story all together, but it also involves problem solving skills!
Parallels exist in all human endeavour. I believe, finding these commonalities means you know how to look at life and work ! _________________ Evolution is always better than revolution. My attempt at Blogging!
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