[thelist] Liquidity

Erika Meyer erika at seastorm.com
Thu Jul 6 16:11:16 CDT 2000


>these are the same people
>who use .gif text all over their sites...

they suck.

>people with that mindset tend to go for the strict static site... 
>build a design pixel by pixel,
>everything has to align or it falls apart, etc...

they should loosen up.

>these are also the same people who tend to want to design to certain 
>resolution, color depth,
>and browser... they want absolute control, and limiting the delivery 
>medium offers some more control...

control freaks.

>then there are people who don't care as much about the design, and 
>are more concerned with
>getting the information out there... they assume the user will 
>resize the window to a
>comfortable size... they let things float all over the place, making 
>consistency diffucult to
>achieve... sometimes text is bizarre, and image wraps do weird 
>things to the page...

stuck in 1996.

>the trick is merging the two...

the art.  the craft.  the magic.  the long nights...

>so, do you think discovery.com has that mix?

no.

I think vidman does.
http://www.starnet.com.au/vidman/home.html

Erika

erika at seastorm.com
http://www.seastorm.com




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