designer wrote:
When you buy wallpaper, how on earth do you manage to change the default
size of the pattern? Also, when you buy someone a coffee table book, say, of
great art works, do you buy them seven copies, each with a different size
type/layout and ask them which one they want?
You are talking about physical objects. A website is not a physical object. If you want absolute control of your layout, do print design
When you watch something on Television, do you have a set of large magnifiers (or reducers) to put in front of the screen, so you can use the one to suit your mood?
Interestingly enough, there are screen magnifiers used by people with low vision...but mentioning this obviously breaks your already very stretched analogy...
These things (and nearly everything else in life) are at the mercy of the designers who helped produced them. For a lot of web designers (as opposed to web site producing technicians), a web site is just the same - it isn't arrogant, it's called passion.
No, it's called myopic ignorance of the subject and of best practices.
If you as a client don't like what a web designer does, you choose someone else,
With the attitude displayed, I'm sure they will, I'm afraid.
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