[Gllug] [OT]Reforming wayward web designers

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, David Damerell spake:
> On Thursday, 7 Oct 2004, Garry Heaton wrote:
>>David Damerell wrote:
>>Attractive, original
>>layouts with appealing graphics may not be the norm in your industry but
>>they certainly are in the commercial world.
> 
> Attractive layouts are not. Most commercial Websites look like they
> were designed by acid-crazed wombats. Original, certainly; which is
> annoying, since once again no-one wants every Website they look at to
> be different.
> 
> I observe that in a much more mature industry - book publishing - most
> of the output is single-column, black on white, with no fancy
> layout. Of course they have learned that people read books for the
> words, not for the typesetting; eventually one can only hope that
> people publishing on the Web learn the same lesson.

Even in publishing they didn't all learn, but personally I find that
reading _Wired_ for more than five minutes at a time gives me a splitting
headache.

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