At 04:41 PM 4/3/98 -1000, Randy Lewis wrote:
>http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_1886.html
>
>Read this

Er, um, yes, I read it.

That was a rather "loose" paraphrasing, however, not a direct quote.

The actual text response to Jesse's stated topic of "Creating graphics for
the Web is way harder than it should be," before "trimming" was:

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Unfortunately, I find this a "non-issue." The problem inherent in web
graphics is not the tools, themselves, but how the tools are used.

Many of these tools will be perfectly happy to create a 300K JPG file to
use on a home page. And yes, it may look beautiful, depending on the skill
of the artist. The question is, "SHOULD you put a 300K JPG on a home page?"
The tools for creating web graphics, as with the previous era of
page-make-up tools, cannot be expected to incorporate "bad taste" or "bad
idea" filters to prevent the user from doing something they should not do.

The issue is making the knowledge available to creators of web graphics on
what is appropriate and what is not, just as with the aforementioned
page-make-up tools, knowledge is necessary to properly apply combinations
of typefaces and position type and graphics for maximum impact.

Tools are not the issue--they will get better (and they are getting
better). By way of analogy, the tools for building houses have gotten
better and are getting better all the time. The nail gun is a vast
improvement over the hammer, however the nailgun cannot be expected to tell
you WHERE to put the nails, nor how many to use. That requires knowledge.

That said, the information is out there--on the web. There is a vast number
of web sites and news groups that provide information on how to create and
refine web graphics, using all manner of tools. Some are vendor specific
sites. Some are more general. The would-be web-graphics creator need only
do the research. But, unfortunately, witnessing some of the material that
ends up on web pages, many are too lazy.

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Byron Canfield (http://www.byronc.com)
Art Director, ZDNet AnchorDesk
http://www.anchordesk.com
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