[thelist] Webmonkey article: Death of Websafe
Erika Meyer
meyer at up.edu
Mon Oct 23 15:05:17 CDT 2000
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html?tw=design
I just now FINALLY got around to reading this.
The article starts by saying this:
"Our project featured a design with beautiful, subtle pastel colors
that looked ridiculous when converted to their nearest websafe
colors."
Here's my question: didn't the designer/artist think about this when
he/she was building the design? Why not? Who comes up with these
harebrained schemes?
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Strategy 5 & 6 make the most sense to me:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a_page6.html?tw=design
and I've employed them before, noticing such color shifts on 16 bit
(Windows) machines.
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I like Strategy 9, also: "Go Back to Print Design."
I would _never_ consider telling a print designer how to design for
print. It's not my area of expertise, and I know it. So why do
print designers go around telling web designers how to do their job?
I was just wondering.
Erika
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