Since you didn't answer my original question, and instead answered a
completely different one, I thought I take a quick look at your site
- after all someone with such strongly held convictions on web design
should surely have something impressive to show.
I was disappointed.
It doesn't start well with the layout. Or rather the lack of layout.
There are several things competing for my attention - the giant mazda
banner, the bizarre form with the strangely asymmetric animated gif.
Trapped glumly between these two objects are a bunch of purple links,
highlighted with a garish yellow. The whole lot is simply centered in
one big messy column with not even the slightest attempt to make it
remotely attractive.
As soon as i click on one of these links i am taken to a new page -
with no idea how to get back. Some navigation appears periodically,
with wobbly rollover affects as the text scales - nice. I click on it
and whoosh it disappears, leaving me stranded once again. Felix, the
first rule of web design is to have constant, consistent navigation.
The number of fonts used on the site is also detrimental - and the
blue text is hard to read.
The overall feeling is that this isnt so much a website as a jumble
of differently formatted and 'styled' web pages with no common theme
or navigation
No page designed for the web requires such poor design. None.
On 1 Jun 2006, at 19:28, Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/06/01 14:03 (GMT-0400) James Cutts apparently typed:
The site is a design site, and as such the text size is a deliberate
choice - its intrinsic to the design. I deliberately built a fixed
width design so I could get everything nicely balanced - the
paragraph widths in proportion to the crab, and the gutter widths -
all important in this design.
I am aware of the ability to built flexible sites, but I believe it
is a design choice, and as such depends on the requirements of the
site. In this case, as I will be controlling the content, i know that
the fixed size will be ok, and this allows me to control the design
and paragraph widths to create the image I wanted for this site. If I
bump up the text size a few clicks it still stays readable here.
As it's obviously designed for a subset of those who might wish to use
it, discriminating against many others, I'm sure only a subset of
those
who might otherwise help will make the choice to assist in your
discrimination. Only print pages hosted on the web need px. No page
designed for the web requires sizing in px. None.
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