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About
JAVA and Advanced Technologies
Cobalt Multimedia has several strategic
consulting clients that insist on using technologies their site visitors
cannot use. Technologies such as Java Applets, Active X, complicated navigation
systems and novelty animations that limit the number of viewers coming
into your site. Many of these people don't understand that JAVA and the
newer technologies can mean losing up to 50% of your viewers simply because
people turn JAVA off in their browsers or the browser is not capable of
handling the technology. Hundreds of new products and innovations come
to the web community every month, as web developers we must be very careful
to consider what will become industry standard and what will be abandoned
in a few short months.
It is a good idea to plan for
future enhancements to your site, but your first objective should be to
reach as many possible viewers and leads as possible. This means designing
a site stripped of technologies but remaining impressive, professional,
and well marketed. After the site is created we can easily begin to create
more interactivity and complex features in additional pages that have
browser detection scripts written within them. A browser detection script
can send your viewers to the appropriate pages that look best in their
current browser model. This way you lose very little of your traffic but
are still pushing the best technology and features to the ones who can
handle it.
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