2009/6/22 Mark Harris <w...@tracs.co.nz> > The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I started, is the > perceived need to make the web like the printed page. That, and the desire to > make it pixel-identical in multiple browsers. > > Let the control go to the user, focus on getting information out there. You > can't control everything, just make it make sense.
Absolutely. This is probably old hat (where did *that* phrase come from?) to most on this list, but if you haven't come across it before, "A Dao of Web Design", a short article by John Allsopp (of Westciv and Web Directions fame) is a must-read: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
