Why are homepage examples too complicated?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 20:46:08 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 09:28:28 UTC, Benjiro wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 20:51:24 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> True. Anybody can make a website. A website that is efficient, 
>> takes time. A stupid travel booking website took over a year 
>> with constant meeting to design around here. The result is a 
>> efficient design but it takes time.
>>
>> [...]
>
> On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 09:28:28 UTC, Benjiro wrote:
>
> I like this guy :) (You are the first person I ever liked here)

I.e. "He agrees with me, therefore I like him!" One year of 
meetings to design a website does not necessarily mean the site's 
good or that it has to take at least a year until you have a 
presentable website. Designing a website for a company means that 
the marketing knobs feel they have to throw in their 2 cents and 
want them acted upon or they block the whole process - then at 
the end, all of a sudden the boss - who never cared for the 
website - wants to have a look too and here we go again... We're 
talking about font-sizes, gradient colors, button 2px to the 
left, company logo bigger/smaller etc, not about the page logic. 
Of course, because they know nothing about programming they go by 
what they see and try to make a contribution there, just for the 
sake of it.

Unfortunately, it is often forgotten that each website needs a 
different, unique approach. Getting inspiration from other 
websites is good, trying to copy them is not a good idea, because 
it will never serve your purpose optimally.

The real craftsmanship behind a website is mastering the various 
technologies that don't work smoothly together (HTML, JS, PHP, 
forms, requests, server side stuff, browsers, data bases). Web 
design is 90% page logic, 10% inspiration.