Hi Tim- I checked out mofo.com. After I realized the firm is really Morrison and Foerster it made more senses! But it still is a good laugh.
As for images on sites. Right now I am working on a very small site for a one person consulting business. She has no images to use and I want to avoid the usual image of people sitting at a conference table, hands shaking, etc. She has a number of folks she uses in her business to extend her capabilities so I don't want to use images of her. So I am stuck. The obvious choices are use more color and create some great typography. Also perhaps using *images* done in Photoshop -- such as lines, grids or other geometric shapes. The site needs to reflect her professionalism. I don't want to turn it into an *artsy* site but a few well-placed images would help in addition to color and typography. Its easy to find images when you are designing for a winery or hospital or school or such. It is these less tangible sites that give me trouble. If you have the URLs of any nicely designed sites with few or no images, pleas share them. Good design should be of interest to all on this list, regardless of platform or market focus. Thanks Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Furry, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 7:28 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: Please Help--Getting my Web Design Out of the Box Janet wrote: When working with a small budget site, images are often hard to come by. Most of my customers are not design-focused so it doesn't make any difference to them-- but I would like to make my sites more artistic/elegant/not sure of the right word--but I know it when I see it! I was just looking for a book or other resource that had samples of well-designed/artistic (but very functional) sites to give me lots of ideas that would spur my own creativity. Tim: Janet, I know exactly where you're at, and I'm in the same boat...I've been looking for ideas to take our corporate site to the next level of graphical appeal. I'm not a designer by nature but know when something is well-designed. I think you're on the right trail - knowing what you like is sometimes half the problem solved. So far, I've decided that images do contribute to the artistic/elegant site, but I've seen sites without images that feel the same way through judicial use of color and font. Oddly, most of the law firm sites that received awards last year were ugly as sin; it seemed that the one quality the reviewers looked for was "news" - i.e., a bit of text or streaming stuff that gave the user the impression that the site was fresh content every day (it wasn't, of course). Can you believe one law firm named their site "http://www.mofo.com";? That had our marketing director laughing on the floor for several minutes. I'll be following up on these suggestions; I'm wanting to learn this, too. Tim ___________________________ Tim Furry Web Developer Foulston Siefkin LLP ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
