What's an "custom job application site"?
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- SoulFly
Guy, agency principal writes on his twitter:
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"Impressed with a good number of applicants for our open UI design job. Lots of nice custom job application sites, too."My question: What is a "custom job application site"? Anyone knows of any examples?
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- foobaz0
I think they mean something like this:
- fugged0
i assumed it was akin to a minisite. Something designed specifically to address the particular job they are applying for?
- SoulFly0
man... so THAT's what it is...
I will be scared if I ever need to apply for jobs anytime soon... I didn't know it was up to that level these days... how can you compete?
- vaxorcist0
whatever man... all sarcasm aside, answering question for somebody who may not know....
A custom app site is where a website is just a front end to a larger program written for this exact project, not just wordpress or joomla, etc....
it can be like an iceberg, i.e. what you see is only the tip of something possibly huge and dangerous to passing ships of project managers who don't know what can go wrong.... i.e. unpredictable deadlines, spec changes,etc...
Ebay is a custom application site, so is facebook, so are hundreds of e-commerce sites.... and so are lots of corporate debacles where the budget and deadlines ran amok because different people had different ideas and management didn't make smart decisions, etc...
A custom application site is like the opposite of wordpress or joomla, it's not prebuilt, it's like building a house from scratch vs a bunch of pre-fab parts. you need to have an architect, lots of stuff is hidden. a wordpress site is like an interior decorating job in comparison.
Some custom app sites may be built using frameworks, as a way to lessen the chaos risk and start with a bit of a prebuilt component set, rubyOnRails, Django and codeIgniter are some of these.
- vaxorcist0
re-reading the post.... the guy may be saying that he thinks designers who do custom app sites are a "step above" those who do wordpress/joomla/etc....
yes.... and/or he may also mean flash stuff, heavy jquery stuff,etc....
maybe he sort of means iphone/android apps, but I doubt it...
NOTE that I'd be careful about working for a shop that innocently thinks custom apps are best for everything... if your developer leaves you may be screwed and holding a bag full of random stuff you may never figure out how to modify/update..... and/or they have their own way of doing things that may not transfer to a new gig...
that said, a large custom app, with smart developers can be very, very cool.... reinventing the wheel badly is not cool....
- Horp0