Your explanation makes sense but as a designer who also dabbles in seo, would not it be your right to 'suggest' and sell the importance of descent content?? The internet is a place were you find useful or useless information. It is not primely a gallery of art like this website.
also you look at the websites home page and your interested so while it may entice the viewers pass the home page, they will not stay beyond that as the home page hides the problems of the whole site. I think as a designer, it is your responsibility to have important content as well as it being accessible, usable and pretty... On 2/6/07, Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jermayn Parker wrote: > It is not that good... > Yes it may load quick but it is a useless uninformative site and apart > from the home page it is ugly and bare as naked bones. > > Lets hope that the designer does not win any awards That's all down to inevitable site content though. The designer has done the most he or she could, barring turning down the job. I am involved in a long-term project to design a site with accessibility features similar to this - it is a site primarily concerned with presenting music and graphic art, in key instances using flash and javascript-assisted stylistic presentation, and as such its content is mainly of a hi-tech, sensory and artistic nature. It just so happens that there is a lot of very wordy prose around the site, so perhaps it might meet your standards, but there are very large portions of the site whose raison d'etre is a method of accessing intrinsically audio and visual content that by its nature, cannot have a truly worthwhile text substitute. I am not going to tell the artists to create accessible 'alternatives' to their creations, neither am I going to tell them that their work has no place on the internet except as trivial extra features - I'm proud to be able to help them prove that the internet is exactly the place for them to do whatever they want, all the while abiding by intelligent accessibility standards. The question we should be asking ourselves is how web-based content whose ultimate purpose is to present artistic (and this includes - crucially - corporate art) media should be made to be as accessible as possible, not 'if'. But to say that such sites cannot be well designed is tragic wishful thinking. Remember design is always a means to an end. The Ivy Hotel has done a great job as far as design is concerned. Its content is indeed flimsy in concrete terms, and as an informative document it is very weak - but the internet shouldn't be limited to encyclopedias, reference manuals and opinion columns. Regards, Barney ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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