Surely the objective of any web page is to get the information across to the
specific audience.  If you are writing a site directly for webTV, or for the
blind viewer, then it has to look good to that specific audience, if it
looks good on other systems, surely that is a bonus, but that is not the
ultimate requirement.  The content is the main focus, and the design should
ensure that the content is as easily available as possible, and that should
define being impressed.  

I have taken over sites where the previous designers impressed the owners
with large flash intros and subtle music in development and when people
actually had to sit through the 30 seconds of cheap tinny flash embedded
music to actually get to the content they became less impressed.  Maybe the
clients mistake, but surely we must aim to guide them as we believe best.

I agree that the knowledge to implement any design is what counts, but the
design has to be based around the requirements of the client, the target
audience and the worthwhile content contained within.

Just my slant
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Heliker [mailto:Michael.Heliker(at)ncrel.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:53 AM
To: 'Hwg-Techniques'; 'Kimiko Drew'
Subject: RE: Web designing (was HTML - why bother?)



> The main thing about webdesigning is being able to impress both users and
> collegue-developers.
> 
That's not the "main" thing. That's what you can achieve if you HAVE the
"main" thing, which, I think, is simply good design sense, and the knowledge
of how to implement it. 

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