On 6 Mar 99, at 13:46, Charlotte Entrepreneurs Onlin wrote:
> Is there a standard that has been described for both the screen and font
> size for designers? How do other site designers accomodate these
> variables?
> It's come to a point where I'm beginning to feel like I'll just design to
> the clients specs, so that they see everything as they should, and the
> rest of the world be damned!
I really think that this is the answer.
Remeber the commercial where the guy said that an educated consumer
was his best consumer? I think that part of our job is to educate
our clients and that might begin by creating an audience profile
from day ONE.
Client approaches me about a website. Okay .... before we ever begin
to decide what you want to do, let's decide HOW you intend to to do
it (on the web of course).
Just by asking your client these questions will lead to an education.
A decent client will ask .. "gee, what difference do some of these
options make?" and you should then educate them and let them make the
decision. Keep the answers on file. A time may come to change some
of the answers. Document the changes. Your designers and programmers
can then use these answers when performing work; rather than just
assuming.
These questions may not be exactly on target. I am just writing them
now.
screen resolution: 1280x760,800x600,640x480
colors: web safe,macintosh,windows 95, windows 3.1
color depth: 64K,256,16
which o/s do you want to design for?
mac
win95
win3.1
winnt
xwindows (I wonder about differences here)
OR do you want to design for a browser/os combo?
nn 2.0/mac
nn 3.0/mac
nn 4.0/mac
ie3.0/win3.1
ie4.0/win3.1
ie4.50/win98
Or do you want to design for a ... umm .. a standard:
html 2.0
html 3.2
html 4.0
java:anywhere,nowhere,depends
javascript:anywhere,nowhere,depends
javascript:1.0,1.1,1.2
Do you want javascript to work as well as possible in all possible
os/browser combinations or do you just want to write javascript for
one os/browser or according to the javascript standard itself.
I think somethign like this could be a few pages long. You get your
client to sign off on every question. It might take an entire day to
go over everything .. depending on your client.
Then you design/create accordingly. The only surprise will occurr if
the client was not educated. But you can show that he indeed agreed
to do it the way you did it. You might then decide to modify the
above document and redesign/create accordingly AND then you have
excellent reason to create a new budget for this.
Peter
Might is not Right. But there is a lot of Might knocking
about in this world, and something has to be done about it.
-- King Arthur, The Once and Future King
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