Steve Krug on University Web Development
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…