Benefits, Limitations, and/or Problems of Website Building

A guide to the website explains to the client why the builder has chosen to add and leave out certain things to a website. Also, it helps a client update a website on their own. Starting the guide has made me realize the benefits, limitations, and/or problems for future website builds.

Building websites for people comes with many agendas other than the final production, which most people only think about. Those who pay for a website don't necessary see all the work that goes into building one because they only think about the final website. They don't think about who is going to visit the website or what questions they will have that need to be answered when they visit it. Adding this information to the guide helps the client understand the reason for elements used throughout the website such as logo, fonts, color schemes, etc.

In that case, this can be a benefit because website designers can share all of this information with the client. Sharing more information such as narrowing down the target audience, choosing the right color schemes, explaining the four basic principles that will work best with the website will lead the client to hire the person with the most knowledge for the job and no one else. The more website designers know what their talking about and are able to show and share their knowledge with the client, the better the outcome will be for them to be hired.

Although there are many benefits, there are limitations and/or problems that can follow. For example, it can be difficult to explain through a guide, in the easiest way, how to update the website. The explanation provided may seem easy for the builder to understand but difficult for the website owner to understand. Therefore, the guide needs to be written with the client in mind because they are the ones who are going to use it.

Also, updating a website can be difficult. For instance, trying to add and/or remove a table can alter a page to look different from the others causing a lack of repetition. Not only that, the client may want to add too much information to the website, which can most likely be unnecessary for the websites purpose. The client may not realize this problem. Therefore, it is up to the website builder to explain to them why certain information is unnecessary without upsetting them.

All of these things provided in a guide make it easier for future site building. The builder already knows how to explain what is good or bad for a specific website and convince the client why it is so.