I always find it interesting in a good way when I look at the websites for small marketing agencies—the kind I which I did subcontracted work for when I was freelancing full time—and see how their websites are old, out of date, or just generally unexciting.
it's like business is good enough that they don't care about their appearance, potentially to a detrimental-to-bringing-in-revenue level. Goals, I guess? But it's weird.
@levisan i made a comment to that effect once, and promptly got removed from the job. Turned out that the site was designed by the owner, and he thought it was perfect.
There are all kinds of retarded reasons why things don't get updated, and laziness is just one of them.
For me, unexciting, clean, Bauhausy modernism that gets straight to the point and underlines the key value propsitions and services of the organization or person is a design goal.
Some clients appreciate this, others see a lack of 5meg stock pictures of multiculti hipsters drinking coffee with yesteryear's laptop and feel that something important is missing.
@jezza Aha yes!
@levisan it's kinda ironic that we have browser defaults for exactly this kind of presentation, yet, you basically never see anything that looks like a simple document.