Fwd: RE: Resend: dealing with designers

You might want to talk like an artist, about "the fluid nature" of the 
"medium" of HTML and its limitations, along with its flexibility. Be 
prepared to try to "translate her concepts" right there on the spot 
--offering proactive suggestions about converting her fantastic ideas into 
a fast, workable yet stylish, interpretation of her superb print 
work.  Don't say NO IT CAN'T HAPPEN right away or too often, say you'll SEE 
IF THERE'S A WAY (and then look, there might be).

Then she might be happier to work out a compromise on her design with you, 
or come up with one that's more translatable.

In my experience, PDF attachments don't really work, unless people are 
warned about them (our exp. making graphics-heavy PDF docs is that they're 
large).  I don't think they automatically open in most email clients, either.

Collette

At 02:03 PM 4/28/03 -0700, you wrote:

>Maybe I could talk the Marketing Director into ASCII art, and just stick
>with plain-text e-mail...
>
>;-)
>
>That might be worth a try, but there's the bandwidth to consider.
>
>Arrrggghhh! I should never have pointed out to them that this was possible!
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> > [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Wheeler
> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:50 PM
>
> > > > > I'm looking for suggestions on how to convey to our graphic
> > > > > designer - who does an absolutely awesome job of designing
> > > > > print materials - that some of the things she wants to do
> > > > > just don't translate well to HTML.
> >
> > As much as I am loath to suggest it, your path of least
> > resistance may be to
> > look at sending them as pdf attachments. microsoftie email app will
> > autolaunch them these days regardless of security issues
> > anyway ... so it
> > should be seeamless to the average recipient.
> >
> > Email was never designed to handle html properly, if at all
> > in some cases.
> >

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