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["Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

        And those of you who attended last week's gathering got to see Saundra
shod in her latest finery from the left coast.  Thanks to Saundra, we're
privy to the outer limits of shoe design here in the sleepy Piedmont of
North Carolina.  

TaB

"saundrakaerubel.com" wrote:
> 
> <> FROM [InternetDay] 03.07.01 - In The Eye Of The Beholder
> 
> "I have to admit; I don't enjoy shopping from Nordstrom's on-line shoe
> store as much as I enjoy shopping from the "real" one. In fact, I
> haven't
> bought anything from their website yet despite the site's excellent
> reputation in the Web development community for its state-of-the-art
> database and the fact that I love shoes. The reason? When I browsed
> through the on-line catalog, I had to narrow my search for the perfect
> sandals to "dressy," "trendy," or "comfortable." Well, I was looking
> for
> dressy shoes that are trendy and comfortable. The salespeople in the
> "real" store would never ask me to choose between dressy, trendy and
> comfortable."
> 
> "My experience made me examine how important is to know the audience
> you
> are developing a website for. You need to get under their skin and
> shop
> like they would be shopping. Common sense says that different groups
> have
> different tastes and expectations based on their experience. What a
> just-out-of-college programmer likes in a particular website is not
> necessarily what a nice old lady likes. Is your site catering to
> programmers or nice old ladies?"
> 
> *************************************************************************
> 
> hahahahaha  had to get a shoe reference in here somehow as it has been
> awhile Steve Steele! :)
> 
> Saundra, shoe lover extraordinaire ---
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