Paul Boag (founder of Headscape) published an incredibly insightful article on the Smashing Magazine website earlier this week entitled “10 Truths About Corporate Websites“. I’ll not steal any of his content, but suffice to say having been a pixel pusher myself in the past, I could not agree more with any of it, especially point 8. One of my previous employees in particular could learn an incredible amount from what’s written on those pages.

At the time this was developed I was working for a mid-sized marketing agency who’s intranet was old, ugly, buggy, and unreliable. The intention of this project had been to reduce the number of headaches and problems the current intranet caused by replacing it with an all-singing, all-dancing replacement, offering all the functionality that had either failed or never been included in their original intranet.






