Architectural websites are terrible - everybody knows this. Most architectural websites are created to impress other architects and designers and as a result, are difficult to navigate by almost all who visit. Time for that to change ...

I think there is a not-so-well-hidden secret out there that the websites for architects are almost all unilaterally terrible. They are cumbersome and hard to navigate – trying to find information on them seems to be a reward for people who demonstrate an unreasonable amount of patience.Why is that" Well, I have my theories but the main reason seems to be that architects don’t consider the people who might be viewing them, instead choosing to focus on style … essentially what would look good to other architects. I should point out that I am speaking specifically about small architectural firms – the 20-employees-and-under type firms who generally don’t have someone on staff who is specifically knowledgeable about website functionality, AND, the type of firms whose potential clients have assuredly spent some time trying to navigate that firms body of work via their website. The other problem most architectural websites suffer from is updating them with current projects – something that my own firm has been guilty of for the past several years.Last week my firm, Malone Maxwell Borson Architects, finally went live with our new website. The old site was just that – old. It was outdated and required...