On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 15:03 +0200, Alan Milnes wrote: > I have seen some articles on the web that say we shouldn't care about > how our web sites look as long as they use valid mark up language and > separate content from presentation.
While I think that designing for the web requires a certain looseness (it may sometimes be possible to produce pixel-perfect cross-platform designs, but is it worth the effort?* The web is not a medium suited to precision design), it's silly to argue that looks don't matter. Thousands of well-paid graphic designers would beg to differ. > Is this a reasonable philosophy or is there something I have missed in > this debate? Your philosophy is reasonable. Cheers, Andrew * I'm as big a fan of k10k as anybody, for example, but jeez, even thinking about trying to implement something of its visual complexity and precision gives me shivers. ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
