Walter Palfy

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since December 1, 1998

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December 1, 1998, on Learn to Program HTML in 21 Minutes :
I agree wholeheartedly with most of your views on website design, with all its excruciatingly slow- loading pages and unecessary gimmicks. However, your comments on graphic designers is a bit off- target. Any PROFESSIONAL designer considers users' loading-speed, bandwith, size of screen and so on, the same as would be done with any printed product (public needs first). You seem to lump together graphic designers and computer graphics people. The first will examine the audience's needs before thinking of ANY concept or design idea,this being a very important part of their training. The latter knows how to visually masturbate with Photoshop and all, with little consideration to how it'll all come out in the end. Those are responsible for most of the terrible sites you talk about. Also, you seem to forget that a well-designed (read:pretty) site will beat out in popularity any site containing the exact same information. People are used to "eye candy", and...