[thelist] Re: Search Engines

Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns skaiser1 at skdesigns.com
Mon Nov 26 08:30:59 CST 2001


At 06:26 AM 11/26/2001, you wrote:
><<Perhaps you could clarify what you mean by "Either your designer or
>the
>searchengines has to go." That statement sounds like designers can't
>design
>sites that work well for search engines, so it's one or the other. Is
>that
>what you mean or am I misunderstanding?
> >>
>
>This was an intentionally brief statement meant to make a broad
>definition of mostly graphic websites compared to mostly text websites.

Oh, yes, of course..... makes sense.

>It is in no way a reference to a specific graphic designer or graphic
>designers in general.  Countless times a client will say 'that text
>looks horrible - cant you make it smooth (anti aliased).

Yes, I've had more than one conversation with clients about exactly this, too.

>  Again, this
>would be loosing function over form as search engines ONLY index (ugly)
>text.

Ah, yes. Thanks for the clarification.

Warmly,
Shirley

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