Poll: When Was The Concluding Fourth Dimension Yous Updated Your Website?

This isn't most when yous concluding updated the artwork on your website. It's most the major changes inwards digital communication using the Internet - too when yous concluding updated your actual website to receive got describe of piece of job organization human relationship of this massive total of technological too technical change.

Website applied scientific discipline is changing inwards leaps too bounds. The province of affairs today is really unlike from 10 years agone too fifty-fifty 5 years ago.

I ready my website on 12 June 2005. That's a very long fourth dimension agone inwards terms of technical change! I've included novel artwork. I've changed the format of some of the pages to receive got describe of piece of job organization human relationship of site developments. However I've never actually sat downwardly too looked at whether it immediately meets my needs inwards terms of the changes inwards the technical too technological surround it immediately operates in.

The poll this calendar month is going to await at how we've recognised technological too technical alter inwards terms of updating our websites.

First it addresses what has happened to technological too technical back upwards for digital communication inwards the concluding 10 years. I'm quest yous to advise what yous shout upwards has been the major change.
Next it looks at the Poll - inquiry too suggested responses. Vote for the 1 which best reflects your circumstances
Finally I'm quest "who hosts your website?" In 2014 I desire to produce a poll to consider which is the most pop host for artists' websites - too so desire to produce some initial enquiry equally which suppliers yous favour.

Changes to digital communication inwards the concluding 10 years

What was novel too is immediately the norm?

What has happened which volition move the norm?

Here's a listing of things I tin shout upwards of off the superlative of my head. What produce yous shout upwards I've left out which is important?

Internet for all

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

Operating systems too apps

In general,

a major switch from Windows to Apple
an explosion inwards availability too utilization of costless software
desktop apps receive got given way to mobile webware apps. Huge demand too numerous suppliers keeps pricing really competitive

Flash seems to receive got come upwards too gone given the way Apple rejected it for iPads too iPhones (as an unstable retentivity hog). There is no flash for iOS or android whatsoever to a greater extent than too at that topographic point never volition be.
Desktop computers are inwards upshot becoming terminals for webware too 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 spider web log looks similar
on a mobile phone

Mobile devices

Massive explosion inwards both functionality too numbers of mobile devices. Pace of alter continues to survive really fast
Explosion inwards the utilization of mobile devices - these are chop-chop 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 retentivity hogger
Unless websites resize automatically some are non slow to access via mobile devices (for me - at acquaint - my blogs on Blogger are fine too my websites on Sitekreator are not)

Design too size of concealment icon has changed. It's move vital that images are non a laid size too tin resize automatically to receive got payoff of unlike sized screens

Storage too bandwidth

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

Cloud storage is immediately becoming the norm for websites constructed using webware.
In plow this seems to hateful sites tin host to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than images.

ISPs immediately offering really fast broadband eg Fibre Optic Broadband - enabling watching video too TV without hiccups

Static vs dynamic

Content has inwards full general switched from static (eg websites) to dynamic sites (eg blogs too Facebook) e.g. people uncovering artwork via social media rather than because a website exists.
Integration amongst social media: Stable/functional links betwixt websites too 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 reason of large thumbnail images of topics
The brusk video of moving images has move ubiquitous. Lots of people receive got the cameras too the software to brand them for themselves. It no longer costs megabucks too requires adept help.

Search

Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser (my stats tell it's immediately downwardly a around 15% of all visitors).
Use of a diversity of browsers is the norm - that agency it's vital for all websites to move compatible amongst the latest versions of all of import browsers.

The alter inwards browsers reflects the alter inwards operating systems
the increasing popularity of Apple too the growth inwards utilization of mobile devices
(Based on Google Analytics | Technology - Browser)

Speed of response is critical. It's an of import ingredient inside the Google search algorithm. It's move a superlative priority if yous desire to generate traffic.
Slow response loses traffic. Websites which haven't slimmed downwardly their code too the pose out of apps which charge volition receive got a long to load. (I know this is something I demand to address amongst both my websites too blogs!)
Optimising websites for search became a "science". This has immediately been undermined e'er since Google made keywords inaccessible!
Semantic search - using verbal queries too normal linguistic communication rather than keywords volition move the norm inwards the future

Sharing media

Methods used for storing too 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 immediately absolutely normal too has changed retail forever
Artist websites amongst ecommerce: More too 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 move associated amongst success (count how many websites immediately strive to await similar Apple's). Minimalist is both functional too really effective.

Social media - sharing communication

The major alter has been inwards social media. Social media sites receive got move a proxy for websites when it comes to display too a proxy for web2 forums when it comes to communication.

All the higher upwards receive got implications for:

content - static vs dynamic
format too design
level of integration
level on interactivity
where a site is hosted eg on a server or inwards a cloud

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

Here's the poll inquiry too the possible answers.

The poll volition unopen at the terminate of thirty Nov 2013 (Greenwich Mean Time).

Please vote for the alternative which best reflects your circumstances. You uncovering the poll inwards the side column (just higher upwards "For your Information").

Making H5N1 Mark Poll (November 2013)

When was the concluding fourth dimension yous updated your website?

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

Who hosts your website?

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

It would assist enormously if I could teach an initial thought most 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 whatsoever website themes amongst responsive designs (ie automated alter to a version which suits concealment size) - but are proposing to innovate them inwards a few weeks time).

Any intelligence equally to how other website providers are changing their services to maintain upwards amongst the constant technical too technological alter elsewhere is almost most welcome.

Please teach out a comment too tell me who hosts your website.