I’ll remind you of comments and advice I gave in the lecture, some weeks ago, on design principles and some “Dos” and “Don’ts”.
“Under construction” was a horridly amateurish notice in many ‘Web 1.0′ sites. Web sites in any case, by their very nature, evolve over time and are therefore never complete. This is so much more the case with Web 2.0–the so-called “read-write” web–where the content itself should come pre-eminently from the site users, your ‘customers’. And not merely the content … feedback from your site users, either explicit or culled from logs and stats indicating usage, should guide you in refining functionality and improving the user experience.
So Web 2.0 sites when first launched will in all likelihood be “in Beta”–never ‘under construction’! Encourage feedback from your site users, even if it’s critical feedback, and listen to what they have to say; and report such feedback, as well as your response to that feedback, in your write-up in your blog.
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