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As the manager or company owner for a design firm, you need to evaluate the risk a potential project has to your company.  There are two main problems that exist when accepting work from clients (and  a few minor ones).

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We are having the toughest time filling 3 more Asp.Net programming positions.

Anyone out there need a job?

A strategic Website marketing plan is similar to a strategic business marketing plan, but with a narrower focus (i.e. the Website plan focuses on Internet marketing strategy and programs while the overall marketing plan encompasses the entire business).

As with any marketing plan, the online plan includes developing strategies and tactics (also called action plans) that, when implemented, will help you reach your marketing goals. An objective, strategy, and tactic are each progressively narrower in scope:

Current surveys show the top 10 web irritations:

1. Slow loading websites 87%
2. Help buttons that can't help 83%
3. Requests for personal details before being allowed to progress into the site 82%
4. Irrelevant search results 79%
5. Poorly organised content 78%
6. No search facility 75%
7. Scrolling down/through lots of pages to get to the info 74%
8. Adverts
9. Pop-up boxes 70%
10. Cluttered Design 63%

Personally I think these are pretty spot on.  My biggest complaint is number 5, poorly organised content.  This is where most sites need help and in future blogs we will be picking on some sites.  What do you think?

Some of the new packages we are writing have me really tired and feeling brain dead.  Over the last 3 days I have created 172 wireframe pages for a site we are working on.   In the next 2 weeks I have to finish nearly 500 more for the new packages we are doing. 

I think the wireframes will continue to really help the staff work, and any design company out there shoud consider creating them before the work is turned over to a programming team. 

Quick answer, probably not.  With the newer versions of Windows (2000, XP, and Vista) I see no real reason to go out of my way to upgrade for a business.  Primary reasons for this:

1.  The software applications we use are critical and we do not have the time to fiddle with them.  Examples are Visual Studio and Adobe Creative suite.

Can you believe the prices being paid for the Playstation 3?  I can't either.   Im would love to have one, butI would have sold it if I was lucky enough to get one.  Is it worth my time to wait around, no.  But the games look truley awesome. 

I'll wait until next year.