At 18:46 7/08/98 -0800, Suz wrote:
>I would love to finetune the process a bit further by replacing my 14"
>monitor template with ones made on a 14" PC monitor, in both IE and NN with
>the default sets of buttons and options. Would anybody care to help me out?
>
>I'll also be happy to share Mac templates with anyone who's curious to see
>the difference.
I can give you a 17" if you want. Or a 600 wide window. Trouble with PCs is
the appearance is different dependingon the graphics card. My home PC uses
a Matrox Millenium and the display is very different from my work PC which
is a ThinkPad 765 notebook sitting in a docking station. Both use 17"
monitors so they should be much the same. But they ain't.
>
>I would think this would be very hard on the coders. Dave and I have
>roughly equivalent skill sets, though he's better at what I call "pure"
>design (logos, icons, illustrating abstract concepts, etc.) than I am. We
>both are skilled at optimizing images, which takes some practice. Even
>though he hates doing it, he *can* do some HTML and has a basic
>understanding of how things go together, but even then sometimes his
>expectations exceed my capabilities. Sometimes I have to explain stuff
>like, "the only options you have for vertical placement in a table cell are
>are top, bottom or middle. Nowhere else." Imagine trying to work with a
>designer who had no idea what a table cell is? Yikes!!! Spare me.
>
I agree. Many of the so-called designers have no idea of the true
limitations of the web. Nor, I'm afraid, does it appear that many of the
developers do, either. Perhaps that's why so many bad sites come out of
interactive divisions of ad agencies - they tend to make a site look good
on whatever equipment they're using and show it to the client from the hard
drive, and don't consider the limitations of different platforms, let alone
different video cards on the same platform. And so they don't optimise
their code for the widest possible access. It's the way this business is
going, I'm afraid. I'm just grateful I got in early and had the opportunity
to learn from people such as the members of this list so that I've
developed an understanding and good coding habits that will stay with me
until the limitations of bandwidth, platforms, OSs, hardware
configurations, software renderings, etc give us a uniform display. But
then, I'll have probably retired by then to pursue my one unachieved
ambition - to run a guest house and restaurant in Tasmania.
ciao
franko
franko
Frank Lee, Interactive Marketing Strategist.
Member: Aust. DM Assoc., Market Research Soc. of Aust., Web Conslts Assoc.,
HTML Writers Guild, Internet Professionals Association. Associate, Aust.
Marketing Inst.
Interactive Strategist, IBM Australia Ltd & Managing Director, Wired World
Consulting.
http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/franko/
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