[LINK] Redirects, User counters and Advertising

[Craig Sanders]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:54:37AM +1100, Eric Scheid wrote:
> Design is complicated to get right, and easy to get wrong. Sturgeon's law
> applies. 

the trouble is that the idea you are pushing (i.e. that it is OK to design for
particular window height or width) causes the very problems you claim to be
wanting to avoid.

it's MORE work, not less, to design to a particular size. and then it
only works ("looks good") when viewed at that size. if you view it at a
different size, it looks bad and/or causes annoyance and inconvenience
to the user because they then have to adjust their browser's screen
or window size or the font size, or scroll back and forth with the
horizontal scroll bar for each and every line of text they read (this is
particularly annoying to have to do - it makes most pages not worth the
bother of reading)

so, alleged "designers" are going out of their way to do more work to
make their sites only work on a subset of user's machines...when if they
just left it up to the browser, their site would work on any size screen.

the polite word for that is "dumb".

> The preponderance of crap design doesn't invalidate the purpose or
> aim of design, the same way the existence of a gazillion zombies on the net

no, but crap design should be criticised when it's encountered, and people
promoting crap design principles should be shouted down lest they infect
impressionable minds.

craig

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