# A Pretty Website Isn't Enough

DevFeed: [A Pretty Website Isn't Enough](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-pretty-website-isn-t-enough-31235.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://nystudio107.com/blog/a-pretty-website-isnt-enough>)

Author: andrew@nystudio107.com (Andrew Welch)

Published: 2016-12-12T12:14:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [nystudio107 | Articles on modern web development.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nystudio107-articles-on-modern-web-development.md>)

Topics: [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [beautiful](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/beautiful.md>), [begun](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/begun.md>), [cms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cms.md>), [created](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/created.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experience.md>), [insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/insights.md>), [it-s](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/it-s.md>), [just](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/just.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [qa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/qa.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [up-to-spec](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/up-to-spec.md>), [website](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website.md>), [well-designed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/well-designed.md>), [you-ve](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/you-ve.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that a visually appealing website is not complete without attention to performance and implementation quality. It identifies developer knowledge, performance QA, project budget, and development priorities as possible reasons for poor performance, and connects these issues to agency processes that treat implementation as secondary to design.

## Source excerpt

Your job is not done when you've created a beautiful, well-designed, up-to-spec website. It's only just begun