I guess alot of it depends just how important that percentage, be it 5%, 10%
or 20%, is to you.
Not so much how important are they, but rather, do you generate better
sales using it rather then not using it. which ever is bets thats what
you do.
And in some cases, the pizzazz mattes.
If your site is just a forum thing you put up as a hobby and you make a
couple of bucks from it through some banner ads to cover the hosting... or a
tribute to your favorite band, Flock of Seagulls, chock full of pictures and
lyrics... then maybe it doesn't matter if some people can't use your site.
That is a valid statement if your site is meant to make direct income
for the company. If the site is there to brand your customer, or if it
there to entertain them, then all bets are off, and you are right, it
does not matter if they can not see your site.
But if you are selling something....
Ah the Holy grail of truth. This is what I have been saying for years,.
If your site is used to make direct sales, or is directly related to
income in your company (advertising is not directly related to income)
then you want every single people you can get to see your site.
but there are other uses for the Internet. Even for corporations. I
can not imagine going to any site related to the entertainment industry
and seeing a plain Jane site with no eye candy. It just will not work.
Looking at it from another perspective.. if my restaurant ordering site gets
over 100,000 visitors a month and of them, about 99.5% places an order
online...
And you are absolutely right, that site should make sure that ever
stinking swinging dick can see and use it. I have NEVER said
differently.
But,let cartoon network try the same thing and it would be a miserable
failure because kids do not go there to buy something, they go there to
be entertained, then they watch the cartoon network, then they buy the
things that are advertised on it. Similar results could not be achieves
with HTML and CSS alone.
if I cut out 10% of my visitors by making scripting a requirement
(the percentage might be more, since almost every one of them is an office
dweller placing an order for lunch or catering for a meeting, or to grab a
quick bite on the way home) then I am cutting out about 10,000 customers a
month
If cartoon network went to an all html and CSS page they would o out of
business. There are different uses for the web other than buying
something and text information. It is a pity so many here miss that
simple point.
To me, and I am sure to my customers, 10% isn't an acceptible loss of
business... even 1% isn't. Anything more than 0% isn't acceptible since no
matter what the situation you can always build a workaround
And this is why we can steal so many customers away from designers like
yourself. See I can offer the customer a page just like you can, or I
can offer him pizzazz it totally depends on what they need to make their
page perform the way they need it to. If the customer needs html and
CSS, they get it (your restaurant example). If the customer needs
pizzazz they get it (pick any large corporation or anything related to
the entertainment industry). See you refuse the pizzazz, which is
closing a line of revenue for yourself. And I am more than glad to take
it.
