Bad Planning
In recent past - and I suppose in the vague past too - I have all too often come across people who are experts in their field, good at what they do, but sadly, lack the ability to take it a step further.
A case in point is when a CMS is created for a client. CMS refers to "Content Management System" where a web designer builds a website and then creates what is called a "Back-End" and anyone who has been appointed to manage the website's content is given a username and password and left to sort out the content.
The problem I have with this is that it's not always easy for someone in a company who doesn't really have the skills, be they journalistic, creative or in hard coding, to actually make a success of it.
So you often find poorly implemented text with different font sizes both in the article itself, and out of proportion to the rest of the site, or tables that look atrocious, or images that are too large, too small or of poor quality.
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Now, before you accuse me of pointing fingers, what I have found even more diabolical is the same people who build these websites and the CMS applications who give no thought to the ongoing development of a site.
So you get to a point where you need to add something new, a different application, and then the developers can't do it, or it takes forever because you are handing the CMS, not them!
The whole point of the exercise is to hand over a ready-built site, and the company saves money by doing their own updates. They figure they have a finger on the pulse and can make changes immediately, without having to go to a company (like MMVII) to do the content management for them.
The truth is, a website is only as good as the management thereof, and the best intentions don't necessarily translate into the best execution.
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