Re: FN-FORUM Bad Webdesign

date posted 1st February 2002 18:04

Google is a workhorse and subscribes to the KISS principle which is where
(to a point) Boo fell down - a bit too clever for those public types who
weren't very web-savvy at the time, a year later and there might have been a
big difference.


on 1/2/02 5:38 pm, Moche Management Ltd at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> Good point , but ......
>
> Boo.com looked brilliant ( for those few people who where responsible enough
> to make sure they had all the pugins, a nice fast dial-up, decent screen
> res, fastish computer , and the right browser / PC) .
>
> Whereas google looks pig ugly and we all seem to use it ?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jd" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 3:35 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Bad Webdesign
>
>
>> regarding navigation/simplicity etc .... you are making some very good
>> points and i am not disagreeing with any of them - but many of you seem to
>> be arguing that a site should be designed for the lowest common
> denominator
>> (slow modem so few graphics, smalll screen, text navigation etc...). This
> i
>> feel limits your creativity and I would not really be happy producing
>> somethingthat did not look good (again let me clarify that webdesign is
> not
>> my main area of work). I frankly think that people should update their
>> vbrowsers/plug-ins so they can view good graphical sites - but again as i
>> originally said it depends what you are looking for - if you are designing
> a
>> commercial site and you want the maximum audience - obviously what i just
>> said is not practical - but in the case of interactive graphic design
>> showcases - it is because you want to show the viewer what you are capable
>> of
>>
>> john
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul J White" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Bad Webdesign
>>
>>
>>>> This is , I think, a major issue . How much should we expect web users
>> to
>>>> have learnt about the basics of browsing ?
>>>>
>>> Not a lot and that goes for clients, too!
>>>
>>>> Do we have a responsibility to stick to common conventions to speed up
>>> the
>>>> learning process for the great unwebbed ?
>>>
>>> Precisely! They will never learn the basics of browsing if you keep
> moving
>>> the goal posts (ie navigation conventions etc) Could you learn to type
> if
>>> different people came in and started muddling up the keys? Now, qwerty
>>> doesn't do much for me but at least it will be the same when I have to
> buy
>> a
>>> new keyboard...
>>> And... I wouldn't want to go as far as Jacob Nielsen, or all sites would
>>> look the same (ish) but I am coming to believe that useability is a BIG
>>> THING and a good thing, and we should be as aware of it when building
>> sites,
>>> as most of us are becoming about SEO.
>>>
>>> That's my opinion, if you don't like it I have others!
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>