Thank you Paul and all others for the valuable info and insights! The motor of the whole thing seems to be:
1) Owners have money to spend and want to do something "new". Or people who have already done something "new", say: "Isn't ist about time you [or we] got a new website?"
2) Owners ask several companies for quotes for a new website.
3) Web developers are so engaged in their modern hi-tech world, that any political aspects are secondary, whereas even if the owners are themselves political, they are so clueless about webdesign and IT in general (except how to use their iThingy or WindowThing (or even GoogleThingy)), that they are easy prey for the web company.
I still don't know how to break this circle. Everybody intelligent I talk to aggrees with me in principle and then does the opposite (or says: "I trust the experts". (Of course this applies to most things in life. Right now my local council is bugging me by wastng my tax money and resources by noisily rebuilding a road which was already in perfect condition. Maybe we could expand Paul's reason to: "that people just don't know.")
Best, Theo
Am 25.04.2016 um 17:02 schrieb Paul Hänsch:
Well, I think the main reason is, that web developers just don't know.
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