Nice post, Peter. Gets the brain working a bit.
I've always thought of the home/index page as a book cover myself, but
that's because I'm addicted to reading. I grew up hanging out in the
library -- that was my idea of an exciting time back in high school <wink>.
BTW, from talking to my friend Jane Fancher (4 sci-fi books published to
date, 2 more due out soon) I know that covers aren't usually designed until
the book has been written and is ready to be printed. And that the designer
of the cover sometimes doesn't read the book, just reads an overview/summary.
--Tamra Heathershaw-Hart
At 12:45 AM 7/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Just curious what some of you might thinkg of the following:
>
>When a publisher evaluates a book, do they ask to see the cover of
>the book first? From what I understand most books are judged by
>content. And they are judged by people who read. Imagine a book
>judged by someone who doesn't read.
>
>What about a website? Are websites used as books are read?
>Are websites created by web developers as books are published by
>publishers?
>
>Just as I would not ask an illiterate to evaluate a book, I would not
>ask someone who doesn't use the web to evaluate a website. I
>would not ask someone who can use software to design my
>website; I would ask a designer. It is a lot easier to teach the web
>to a designer than to teach design to someone with the money to
>buy software.
>
>Learning is important. It is not something money can buy. It is not
>something done once and then forgotten. Learning is continuous,
>especially so in the dynamic world of the internet.
>
>I am the member of a few mailing lists. I get well over 200 emails a
>day and I may peruse half of them. The authors of these emails
>are webmasters, designers, programmers, and just about anyone
>else with an interest in the web. We discuss what can be done,
>what has been done, how to do it and how not to do it and why not.
>
>Although not rocket science, the web can be a tricky place. It is
>very easy to create a beautiful looking website that may only be
>viewable by 50% of the market -- and you many never realize that.
>Now if you go into production knowing that, then fine. But many
>people do this in complete ignorance.
>
>Do you ask yourself if you are creating a cover to dazzle or content
>to browse. Will people come to your website, look, appreciate or
>not, and move on, or will they come, browse, bookmark and come
>back? Will you want them to come back? Will you be satisfied
>with just one visit per person? Will you use java that is compatible
>with netscape 2.0 or IE 3.0 or with netscape 2.0 on the MAC or will
>you require all visitors to have properly configured computers using
>56K Flex, 64 meg of ram, with at least 10 meg of free disk space
>and a 21 inch monitor set at 1200x768 resolution and 16 million
>colors and using windows98 and netscape 4.0345? These things
>and much more must, no -not must, could be considered.
>
>Peter
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