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I Feel the Need.. The Need For Speed

Shane Hodge • Aug 02, 2017
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Ok famous line from a famous Movie, Top Gun. Wow, adrenalin packed 90 minutes, F18’s zooming across the sky, dog fights, it was awesome and that one line from Tom Cruise, “I feel the need, the need for speed” has become the catch cry before you put the pedal to the metal and zoom off down the highway or if you’re lucky strap yourself into your F18 and go and catch the clouds. I don’t think many of us would have an F18 sitting in our garage huh.

These days though, I feel the need for speed is no longer just screamed out by the petrol heads and sky pilots, that one line has become part and parcel of every web site build design sheet presented to a builder.

Yep, thanks to good old Google making us all 100% paranoid our potential customers will leave us quicker than you can say “Jester’s Dead” (another famous line in Top Gun) if our websites don’t load in under a few seconds. “The Need for Speed” is high on a customers want list.

The point is though that the majority of customers want this speed, but they also want the site to be sexy, awesome, state of the art, graphically enhanced, a few special effects here and there, like "hey! I need to stand out from the crowd type site". (This is on top of the often asked for minor request of being page one in Google).

So, at this point... Let me clarify a major issue, for something to go fast?

We must consider a very important issue and that is weight. Formula One cars, MotoGP bikes, F18’s, horses even humans can go fast as long as long as they don’t weigh a lot, and if you want to go faster in any of these? Well, you have to start throwing out some ballast.

Heavyweights don’t win the 100 meters at the Olympics, folks.

So, let’s look at that website. When TheCamel.co™ designs a Duda Website we ask?

Do you really need those 5000 pictures? What about that 190 pages of technical text? Those three videos you wanted to play on the slider? Do you think you can do without them?

When your customer is requesting speed but they still want all the goodies, maybe you should start singing “Highway to the danger zone” and remind them that’s it’s hard for a pig to fly and we might need to let go of some of the goodies, streamline the site a little, stick to facts and click to call, use more PDF’s and zippyty doo dah that site will fly.

It’s not just design that will help, TheCamel.co™ with its Duda Specialists builds all sorts of Duda Widgets inhouse that will lessen the code on a site making it much faster. Our Developers knowledge of the Duda Platform gives the ability to make workarounds that can give your Duda site even more Google Edge.

Then you can ride off into the sunset on the back of a motorcycle and let the credits roll.

Big Hugs from TheCamel. co

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Panic Merchants? Are you one of them since November last year folks? Yes, November last year ChatGPT hit the google waves and with a lot of help from “The Sky is falling, Armageddon is here, Life is over, Will all become Slaves” media, a lot of us hit panic station zebra and started to review books on “How to live on the Poverty Line” Ai? Was going to rule the world, take our jobs, and life as we know it is over. Well hello 7 months later? Those of us that have sent out a heart emoji to WallE (that's what we call Ai at TheCamel) are not living out the back of our car folks, we have gotten over the initial shock and awe moment and decided not to hang out the white flag of defeat but more to start singing, “With a Little Help From My Friends” (love you beatles should never have broken up) and make all this excitement work for us and put us all back on the road to fame and fortune. 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So, let us cherish and learn from our seniors, for they hold the key to maintaining the essence of humanity in this ever-evolving digital landscape. Remember, there's nothing quite like a warm smile, a heartfelt conversation, and a genuine connection that only the magic of human interaction can provide. Thanks WallE for that insightful additional comment, and love it you called me Boss. So Folks what golden nugget of advice can I give at the end of this month's blog? In the words of Al Pacino, “Don't Fear it Embrace it” Ai has a lot to offer all digital agencies now and the future, but another asset you should be looking at and making sure you have as part of your team is a little bit of grey or in my case baldness as The Secret Weapon with Ai? Oldies are Goodies Hugs to all
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