On 12 Apr 2005, at 12:35 PM, info wrote:
Hi all,
I'm going to make a presentation to art students on an introduction to web design and would like some advice (besides how to deal with the butterfiles in the stomach).
Butterfiles. I love it. Is that a code in-joke?
Seriously, the other answerers have made some good points, but I think there are a couple that haven't been directly mentioned that should be:
1. Web design is liquid - or should be. A magazine reader can't make the page a different size and shape; a web surfer can. The design of a good web page needs to withstand resizing/reshaping - within practical limits.
2. The use of good coding practice (that which we refer to as 'Web Standards') to effect the separation of content and presentational styling. And this goes hand in hand with...
3. Coding in such a way as to make the web pages accessible to *all* visitors - whether visually or motor-function impaired, or simply via simpler browsing devices, like old browsers or mobile phones.
This last is a tough one to sell to visual design students (I have a number of clients, photographers, whose attitude tends to be 'If they can't see my photos, why should I care?'), but it's really a courteous way to design using this medium. Throw them the old (McLuhan?) chestnut: Form Follows Function.
Best of luck with your presentation!
N ______________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/
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