Brand New!! Poll: When Was The Final Fourth Dimension You Lot Updated Your Website?

This isn't almost when yous concluding updated the artwork on your website. It's almost the major changes inward digital communication using the Internet - in addition to when yous concluding updated your actual website to accept concern human relationship of this massive total of technological in addition to technical change.

Website engineering scientific discipline is changing inward leaps in addition to bounds. The province of affairs today is real dissimilar from 10 years agone in addition to fifty-fifty v years ago.

I prepare my website on 12 June 2005. That's a very long fourth dimension agone inward terms of technical change! I've included novel artwork. I've changed the format of some of the pages to accept concern human relationship of site developments. However I've never actually sat downward in addition to looked at whether it forthwith meets my needs inward terms of the changes inward the technical in addition to technological environs it forthwith operates in.

The poll this calendar month is going to hold back at how we've recognised technological in addition to technical modify inward terms of updating our websites.

First it addresses what has happened to technological in addition to technical back upward for digital communication inward the concluding 10 years. I'm bespeak yous to propose what yous recollect has been the major change.
Next it looks at the Poll - inquiry in addition to suggested responses. Vote for the ane which best reflects your circumstances
Finally I'm bespeak "who hosts your website?" In 2014 I desire to create a poll to reckon which is the most pop host for artists' websites - in addition to therefore desire to create some initial inquiry every bit which suppliers yous favour.

Changes to digital communication inward the concluding 10 years

What was novel in addition to is forthwith the norm?

What has happened which volition cash inward one's chips the norm?

Here's a listing of things I tin recollect of off the meridian of my head. What create yous recollect I've left out which is important?

Internet for all

More in addition to to a greater extent than people tin access the Internet. More in addition to to a greater extent than people are on broadband in addition to increasing numbers are able to access fibre eye speeds.
In general, prices for cyberspace access are coming down - but notwithstanding vary a lot from house to place

Operating systems in addition to apps

In general,

a major switch from Windows to Apple
an explosion inward availability in addition to job of gratis software
desktop apps receive got given way to mobile webware apps. Huge demand in addition to numerous suppliers keeps pricing real competitive

Flash seems to receive got come upward in addition to gone given the way Apple rejected it for iPads in addition to iPhones (as an unstable retention hog). There is no flash for iOS or android whatever to a greater extent than in addition to in that location never volition be.
Desktop computers are inward lawsuit becoming terminals for webware in addition to cloud storage

This represents a marked switch from Windows to Apple / iOs over time
(Based on Google Analytics | Technology - Os)

This reflects a major switch from desktop to mobile for accessing the Internet
(Based on Google Analytics | Mobile - Overview)

What this weblog looks similar
on a mobile phone

Mobile devices

Massive explosion inward both functionality in addition to numbers of mobile devices. Pace of modify continues to hold upward real fast
Explosion inward the job of mobile devices - these are speedily becoming the norm for accessing the Internet (if non already)
BUT not all sites are accessible via mobile devices

Flash outlawed past times Apple due to beingness a retention hogger
Unless websites resize automatically some are non tardily to access via mobile devices (for me - at acquaint - my blogs on Blogger are fine in addition to my websites on Sitekreator are not)

Design in addition to size of covert ikon has changed. It's cash inward one's chips vital that images are non a laid size in addition to tin resize automatically to accept wages of dissimilar sized screens

Storage in addition to bandwidth

Server to Cloud: Most hosts forthwith offering a lot to a greater extent than storage re. websites.

Cloud storage is forthwith becoming the norm for websites constructed using webware.
In plough this seems to hateful sites tin host to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than images.

ISPs forthwith offering real fast broadband eg Fibre Optic Broadband - enabling watching video in addition to TV without hiccups

Static vs dynamic

Content has inward full general switched from static (eg websites) to dynamic sites (eg blogs in addition to Facebook) e.g. people abide by artwork via social media rather than because a website exists.
Integration amongst social media: Stable/functional links betwixt websites in addition to social media are critical to getting content seen past times lots of people
Still images are crucial currency for the internet. People navigate on the footing of large thumbnail images of topics
The curt video of moving images has cash inward one's chips ubiquitous. Lots of people receive got the cameras in addition to the software to brand them for themselves. It no longer costs megabucks in addition to requires proficient help.

Search

Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser (my stats tell it's forthwith downward a only about 15% of all visitors).
Use of a diversity of browsers is the norm - that agency it's vital for all websites to cash inward one's chips compatible amongst the latest versions of all of import browsers.

The modify inward browsers reflects the modify inward operating systems
the increasing popularity of Apple in addition to the growth inward job of mobile devices
(Based on Google Analytics | Technology - Browser)

Speed of response is critical. It's an of import division inside the Google search algorithm. It's cash inward one's chips a meridian priority if yous desire to generate traffic.
Slow response loses traffic. Websites which haven't slimmed downward their code in addition to the set out of apps which charge volition accept a long to load. (I know this is something I demand to address amongst both my websites in addition to blogs!)
Optimising websites for search became a "science". This has forthwith been undermined e'er since Google made keywords inaccessible!
Semantic search - using verbal queries in addition to normal linguistic communication rather than keywords volition cash inward one's chips the norm inward the future

Sharing media

Methods used for storing in addition to sharing media: These receive got gone from floppy discs to CDs to writeable DVDs to USB pollex drives to minor portable difficult discs

Ecommerce

Online shopping is forthwith absolutely normal in addition to has changed retail forever
Artist websites amongst ecommerce: More in addition to to a greater extent than artists are incorporating ecommerce functionality into their websites to enable straight sales via the web

Design

Clean contemporary unfussy pattern amongst fantabulous images has cash inward one's chips associated amongst success (count how many websites forthwith strive to hold back similar Apple's). Minimalist is both functional in addition to real effective.

Social media - sharing communication

The major modify has been inward social media. Social media sites receive got cash inward one's chips a proxy for websites when it comes to display in addition to a proxy for web2 forums when it comes to communication.

All the inward a higher house receive got implications for:

content - static vs dynamic
format in addition to design
level of integration
level on interactivity
where a site is hosted eg on a server or inward a cloud

When was the concluding fourth dimension yous updated your website technology?

Here's the poll inquiry in addition to the possible answers.

The poll volition closed at the cease of xxx Nov 2013 (Greenwich Mean Time).

Please vote for the pick which best reflects your circumstances. You abide by the poll inward the side column (just inward a higher house "For your Information").

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When was the concluding fourth dimension yous updated your website?

Never - non touched site since originally prepare 5+ years ago
Never - non touched it since originally prepare 1+ years ago
Thought almost it - but done nothing
Minor changes - but to a greater extent than to do
Updated for meliorate integration amongst social media
Moved site to host offering much meliorate tech. support

Who hosts your website?

In 2014 I recollect to run a poll to abide by out which are the favoured suppliers. Consequently, I desire to abide by out who are the primary suppliers of website services for artists.

It would assistance enormously if I could larn an initial thought almost what your website set-up is.

For example, I've got my websites amongst Sitekreator - who tell me they that at acquaint they don't receive got whatever website themes amongst responsive designs (ie automated modify to a version which suits covert size) - but are proposing to innovate them inward a few weeks time).

Any intelligence every bit to how other website providers are changing their services to maintain upward amongst the constant technical in addition to technological modify elsewhere is almost most welcome.

Please travel out a comment in addition to tell me who hosts your website.