Is the personal site dead?
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- BattleAxe
at least in my corner of the world, no one wants their own sites anymore, they just want to get set up on the social network grid (FB,TW,MS etc )
I even lost a client for suggesting they have their own site where they can manage their accounts from one post , "too complicated" they said
is this a common thing, or am I just a shit salesman
- MHDC0
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- ukit0
I'd say no*
*But then again what do I know?
- CALLES0
whats your corner?
- fxone0
its dead. fb is much more powerful
- define "powerful"...ideaist
- Filled with power.wmeredith
- lolset
- Fucking lol!babaganush
- boobs0
One needs a proper website to seem professional in this day and age. I wouldn't just hire someone from their crap off of Facebook, or Twitter. If they haven't even bothered to make a wee website, they'd seem like poseurs to me.
- fxone0
for a client a fb fan page is much more powerful than a website. no doubt
- More powerful? Depends on the scale of the client.ETM
- *pats fxone on the back. Time for your pills sonny.d_rek
- <boobs
- time to wake up d-rek. soon ull be working for fbfxone
- soon you'll became administrator of 1000's fanpages and apps you don't care about.taxiguerrilla
- quack0
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- ukit0
Facebook
Twitter
Wordpress
- BattleAxe0
so who needs a website
- fxone0
there seem to be a trend on this board of web designers being in complete denial when challenged with the realities of evolving technology, ie. Flash, FB vs. website etc.
- Kiggen0
on a corporate level they will always need a website.
- boobs0
Yeah, I think Facebook and Twitter are good, in large measure for drawing more traffic to the website. Yeah, I can see a DJ not needing a website, or a local band. They can do a lot with Twitter and FB. And they're only really marketing to their friends and acquaintances anyway.
But, you know, would you hire an architect off what he had on Facebook? Would you hire an accountant because of his tweets? I mean, in a lot of fields, one has to eventually show the reality of one's training, background, experience. Web is a good platform for that.
I might spend $1.50 on a bottle of flavored water off something shown on Facebook, but I doubt I'd contract a $20k addition on my house with someone who didn't have a website.
- Continuity0
This debate of social networking vs traditional website vs campaign microsite, et cetera, really is kind of moot.
It all comes down to the client's marketing objectives; our responsibilities as designers, ADs and concepters is to work with the strategy people and clients to come up with the best solutions, based on those objectives.
No one platform will supplant the others for the forseeable future; it just means we have more channels at our disposal to offer to clients.
- yep, I find myself talking about
'new media' marketing objectives more than anything.doesnotexist - theres nothing you can do on a website that you cant do on FB. om the other hand FB has infinite additional possibilitiesfxone
- FB can't be themed or skinned to a companies IDBattleAxe
- yep, I find myself talking about
- boobs0
But sticking out is what gets one noticed in the marketplace.
- And sticking out is platform independent, IMHO. No matter what platform you use, if the idea isn't good, you're dead in the water.Continuity
- ... water.Continuity
- lambsy0
most of the clients i've dealt with said they would be embarrassed to have a facebook page for their business.
they have also suggested that having to manage comments and "business friends" and updates is very juvenile and ultimately hurts your image if it's not constantly updated.
- Continuity0
^^
It's all about perceptions, much as many people don't have the same contacts on FB as they do on LinkedIn. They perceive FB as being recreational, and LinkedIn to be strictly professional.