Kathy Gill:
>>From another list:
>
>> http://www.cio.com/archive/webbusiness/100198_customer.html
>>
>Frankly, *I* think it's wrong -- it suggests its the UNIX heads who
are
>adding "flash" over sustance -- not the "thirtysomethings on Madison
>Avenue whose primary interest is winning awards for their dramatic
>advertising designs" ... What do ya'll think?
Guess I'd better put on my asbestos nightshirt <grin>.
First, I got the impression that the "thirtysomethings on Madison
Avenue" were being scorned just as much as the UNIX heads and the
Suits. He doesn't seem to like any of them very much. (Short fuse
with obsessives of any type, apparently. I can sympathize with
that.)
Second, from the two of the four corporate web groups that I've had
contact with, the UNIX heads (or their NT equivalents) had to be
restrained from animating the company logo, putting weird stuff into
randomly-placed mouseovers, and inserting multiple snazzy Java
applets where a simple Javascript would have sufficed. They tried to
put long VRML vestibules in front of the basic Welcome page, and had
VERY LOUD MUSIC automatically play while the huge graphic files were
downloading.
Now, the other two corporate web groups were wonderfully sane, and
confined their more outrageous "ain't technology WONderful" outbursts
to their individual staff pages, available to the curious but out of
the main line of navigation. The stuff they did for public use was
lean and elegant, and I'd love to work with them on any project they
have going. The first two groups...well...of course I -will- work
with them, if I get the contract. They're nice people and they pay
well. But I don't think I'd use their sites in my portfolio. I'd
just print out a copy of, say, the site map and maybe do a demo disk
of any content pages I developed. I'd hate to have another client
think I specified a dancing copier/printer or a CEO who mutates to a
posterized silhouette when tickled by a cursor.
>(sidenote: I HATE these sites that I can't copy
>& paste from ... grrrrrrr)
Did you have trouble copying/pasting from the cio.com site? It
worked for me (Netscape Communicator browser to Word).
K@
katnagel @eznet.net
Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting Services
Technical writing | Editing | Conversions | Webstuff
"The transformation of calories into words, of words into money,
and of money into calories again are the three cycles in a
freelance writer's metabolism." /Mary Kittredge, _Poison Pen_
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