A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it? « Rev Dan Catt's Blog

A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it? « Rev Dan Catt's Blog

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• webdesign

The standard/simple features that probably make up the bulk of the site will in essence be pages displaying single database records (or amalgamation of a few) in a very beautiful CSS3 + HTML5 + AJAX + jQuery fashion (but probably without the HTML5 bit, but don’t tell PR that). Scaling that is relatively painless. The ones we’re interested in are the “exciting features that probably involves the social graph”. These are along the lines of “Things people you are following are buying/doing/following” and “people who did this also did that”. As a site gets more users, these features consume more and more resources until they reach the point at which things break.