Comments on: Are events like FullCodePress damaging to the web development community?

By: huntington web design

huntington web design — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:42:25 +0000

Thanks for that! lol… so I’m nevertheless wondering what you notion for the post I produced last week, you never did comment on it??

By: Drupal community builds Irish charity websites « Nonprofit web design « by Jason King

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:37:11 +0000

[...] two charity websites has announced its team members and attempted to answer a tricky question: are events like this damaging to the web development community? I don’t think that charitable one-off events like this are anything other than a good idea. [...]

By: Jason King

Jason King — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:28:51 +0000

I think the comments are a bit silly. As if one competition threatens the industry! And 24 hours is plenty enough time for a professional team to put together a good website.

However, I think a bit of follow-up after the competition would be a good idea, just to fix any remaining bugs and tie up loose ends.

By: Amanda Browne

Amanda Browne — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:41:50 +0000

Man there are some harsh comments on the SitePoint post.

I agree with Renae and Steve. It’s a great opportunity to have some fun doing what we all have a passion for and at the same time do some good in the world. What could be better than that!

By: Renae

Renae — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:32:00 +0000

Full Code press is nothing but a positive initiative – it’s fun, challenging and at the end of the day, it’s an opportunity for the web community to give back to other member of society that need our skills.

I find it hard to believe that any client would expect their website to be built in 24hrs, under these conditions, in a real world scenario. Again, the Iron Chef analogy is pertinent.

By: Steve Dennis

Steve Dennis — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:40:23 +0000

The fact of the matter is that in sheer hours alone at fairly standard market rates there’s well over $20,000 worth of work that goes into each of these websites. I don’t expect anyone would reasonably expect real world projects to be run at all like this.

Also people should keep in mind that over 90% of websites currently out do not involve specialist UX/IA design, and sometimes not even much in the way of requirements gathering. The industry is still littered with amatures. Rushed as these may be, a lot of non-profit sites end up a lot worse.

And if your client’s are leaving you to try to get a ‘cowboy’ to do a site in 24 hours for them, you don’t want them as a client.

(and lets not forget cowboys were the first people into space)

By: Hamish

Hamish — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:23:28 +0000

I don’t think it’s entirely paranoid, as it’s usually an uphill battle to convince the hierarchy that websites don’t build themselves. I would suggest though that the people that are making the decisions re: hiring/funding/contracting are entirely likely to be completely oblivious to FCP anyway.

By: Zef

Zef — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:15:24 +0000

I’d probably be in a stretcher within a week if I had to do FCP all over again every day/night of the week!

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:32:18 +0000

Spot on Russ. The analogy to Iron Chef is spot on. Suggesting that competitions like this where people explore what can be achieved shouldn’t happen because the entire web industry might suffer are uninformed and bordering on paranoid, IMO. If you do that bad a job convincing your clients of your worth, then maybe you need some lessons in marketing.

By: Bjarni

Bjarni — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:55:43 +0000

Its all relative, you could build three website in 24hrs or you could do the first section of research for one website – “how long is a piece of string” : )