Nancy O. wrote:
When I see Muse and Clients used in the same sentence, I shudder a little. Here's why:
I had a prospective client show me the web site her former "web designer" created. It was a poorly conceived Muse site. The client was unable to edit it and wanted much, much more so she came to me for improvements. Given the long inventory of features the client requested from the start, MU was definitely not the right tool for this project.
Mind you, I am not putting blame on Muse. I lay blame entirely on a clueless, so-called "web designer" who made some very foolish choices. But here's the thing. All that "ease of use" that MU provides is a double-edged sword. It empowered this inexperienced, non-coder into thinking they had all the right tools (and talent) to build and SELL professional websites. YIKES! It takes a lot more than tools to build good websites.
I can forgive the mistakes people make when building sites for personal/hobby use. Afterall, that's the target MU user and it's their cross to bear if the website stinks. But it's unforgivable when people sell dreck to unsuspecting clients. Suffice it to say, the site I looked at had to be tossed out & rebuilt from ground up. The client was none too happy to hear their first website investment had been all for naught.
Now you understand why I have an aversion to web designer's who use MU for client projects. I'm sure some very talented designers can do amazing things with MU. But for me, it signals a red flag that something important is missing from their minimum skill-set otherwise they wouldn't be using MU.
Just my 2 cents.
Nancy O.
I can see a 50|50 but in your eyes the client was totally innocent and had no part in allowing that scenario to happen? I've seen my share of bad sites both Muse and DW… hell I'm old enough to remember the good old days of Frontpage but I love seeing people like gizerd discover websites that they would have never attempted with DW so Muse is staying around and that’s a good thing. ------ Muse vs Dreameaver is the wrong approach imo… it's Muse & Dreameaver that has a future if Adobe can make it happen before someone else builds it instead.
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