On 28 Oct 98, Brett Lorenzen wrote:
> "Cutting edge web design is fading away because people are bored with it,
> and have realized HTML is not a presentation language. If you need
> confirmation of this adjustment, you need only to talk to David Siegel,
> perhaps the web's best known self promotion artist. He's realized that
> consulting on strategy brings in bigger paychecks, and involves flying to
> cool places to give lectures. "My clients stopped paying for sites people
> only visited once, and only to look at," he says as he masters the
> startlingly obvious."
Couldn't agree more. The first time I saw one of Siegel's sites (after
hearing all the orgasmic hoopla about the guy), I was put in mind of 'The
Emperor's New Clothes' -- thought to myself, "Jeez, this is pretentious and
derivative drivel, annoying to navigate and twenty years out of date in its
Warholesque pop-art presumptions." Siegel's work was a good example of
what to avoid in site design, but that's as far as his beneficial influence
ever went. Couldn't understand why so many people insisted on seeing
new clothes that simply weren't there. Novelty, I suppose.
By coincidence, I happened to stumble upon his silly "Casbah" site last
weekend -- been a couple of years since I last saw it -- and was thinking
about posting to the list to say, "Hey, remember Siegel?? Lo how the
mighty have fallen", or something. But I passed... he's irrelevant by this
point.
BTW, here's the above-mentioned site:
http://www.dsiegel.com/
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
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