Steve Krug on University Web Development
Published 8 Nov 2005
This excerpt from Steve Krug’s keynote presentation at HighEdWebDev 2005 just made my morning (via Collegewebeditor.com):
Top 9 reasons why it s*cks to be you
- Corporate expectations in a non-profit budget
- Stakeholders who can be petty and whiney in ways that wouldn’t dare in the real world
- Find and implement a CMS in your spare time, and herd kittens into using it
- Sub-site/fiefdom hell: We want our dept/school/project to have its own character
- Multiple audiences
- Homepage death match
- Deans less likely to force everyone to the site-consistency line than CEOs
- Tons of dynamic content of variable quality and enormous importance — to its creators
- Cool-factor arms race to stay competitive
Seems like number 3 is my task for today…
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Commentary
Matthew Pennell writes
Nov 9 at 11:43 AM #
Some of those ring true for non-uni development too – 4, 5 and 6 were a major headache during the recent redesign of our corporate site…
Andrea writes
Nov 9 at 09:42 PM #
Matthew: I believe it. Lots of the issues with Uni sites come from their being so large with so many stakeholders—I’m sure there are corporations out there that are in the same boat on that front.
I love the term “Homepage death match”—for me it sums it up perfectly. Now I will at least have a fun visual in my mind when I am dealing with it… :)
Pat writes
Nov 9 at 10:28 PM #
Wow…that is so dead on it’s scary.
Pat writes
Nov 12 at 01:42 AM #
Just today I was in a conversation where My Yahoo! was used as a reference as to the types of features we need in our portal. Point #1 strikes again.
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