A (hopefully) quick rant...
Ok, first up what did having a double dose of 0.3% hypericin in my body do for me? Apart from giving me a herby taste in my mouth it gave me a night of deep sleep. Usually i only experience this kind of sleep when I'm ******, so the experience isn't new. The experiment continues.
Now, onto my rant. It's about web designers, or the way that everyone seems to think they are a web designer. Think about this, to become a doctor you have to go to medical school, and have many many years training right? To become a pilot, again, you have to have years of training. However, there seems to be the attitude that if you give someone a computer they instantly become a graphic designer or web designer. This is utter bollocks.
Would you trust a doctor who had no formal training? God no, so why the hell put up with this influx of sub standard design that I've noticed lately.
For all you cool design kids out there, hear this, just because you can make a CSS style sheet, just because you can code HTML and PHP, just because you don't get out of bed unless a page is 100% Flash, just because you can put code in your site that changes the cursor from the standard 'arrow-head' to a cross-hair....it doesn't make you a designer. So stop it and go back to playing with your dolls or your football.
It just gets on my nerves that so many sites, and it has to be said, so many blogs, are designed simply because the person has the technical ability, rather than the aesthetic skill. I've been on sites where the only area for text is a tiny box in the middle which can fit about 3 words across it before you need to scroll down. I've seen sites that use fonts that are not only impossible to read, but that are in the most garish colour imaginable.
Now, if that's how your site looks and that's how you like it, then fair play to you. If it makes you happy then by all means ignore everything I say. But if you code a site to be like that just because 'it's cool' I've got some quite shocking news for you. It isn't. Grow up and stop pretending to be a designer, to be something that you sure as hell ain't. And you know all your designer kid mates, they aren't cool either. They are all arses.
Any designer worth his, or her salt knows that the main aim of design is to not only be aesthetically pleasing, but to also be functional, this is so true of websites. A website that looks pretty will keep someone's attention for about 3 seconds. A website that looks pretty and is actually useable by the person on the other end of the mouse will keep their interest for so much longer. It will also mean that they will return, hopefully regularly, as your site is not only gorgeous eye candy, it's also a pleasure to use, and makes the internet a joy.
Ok, maybe that last part is a bit OTT but I hope you can all see where I'm going. Design websites for the sake of design, not for the sake of putting in every fancy effect you've just learned to code.
Now, onto my rant. It's about web designers, or the way that everyone seems to think they are a web designer. Think about this, to become a doctor you have to go to medical school, and have many many years training right? To become a pilot, again, you have to have years of training. However, there seems to be the attitude that if you give someone a computer they instantly become a graphic designer or web designer. This is utter bollocks.
Would you trust a doctor who had no formal training? God no, so why the hell put up with this influx of sub standard design that I've noticed lately.
For all you cool design kids out there, hear this, just because you can make a CSS style sheet, just because you can code HTML and PHP, just because you don't get out of bed unless a page is 100% Flash, just because you can put code in your site that changes the cursor from the standard 'arrow-head' to a cross-hair....it doesn't make you a designer. So stop it and go back to playing with your dolls or your football.
It just gets on my nerves that so many sites, and it has to be said, so many blogs, are designed simply because the person has the technical ability, rather than the aesthetic skill. I've been on sites where the only area for text is a tiny box in the middle which can fit about 3 words across it before you need to scroll down. I've seen sites that use fonts that are not only impossible to read, but that are in the most garish colour imaginable.
Now, if that's how your site looks and that's how you like it, then fair play to you. If it makes you happy then by all means ignore everything I say. But if you code a site to be like that just because 'it's cool' I've got some quite shocking news for you. It isn't. Grow up and stop pretending to be a designer, to be something that you sure as hell ain't. And you know all your designer kid mates, they aren't cool either. They are all arses.
Any designer worth his, or her salt knows that the main aim of design is to not only be aesthetically pleasing, but to also be functional, this is so true of websites. A website that looks pretty will keep someone's attention for about 3 seconds. A website that looks pretty and is actually useable by the person on the other end of the mouse will keep their interest for so much longer. It will also mean that they will return, hopefully regularly, as your site is not only gorgeous eye candy, it's also a pleasure to use, and makes the internet a joy.
Ok, maybe that last part is a bit OTT but I hope you can all see where I'm going. Design websites for the sake of design, not for the sake of putting in every fancy effect you've just learned to code.
posted by pruvaloo at 3:12 PM
4 Comments:
Amen!
Btw, thanks for your comment. :)
Guess who was a grumpy boy yesterday ;) my portfolio site needs redesigning...perhaps I shouldn't of spoken just quite yet.
You are so right. Some blogs I visit are so "busy" that it's a little unnerving. Annoying is another word that comes to mind. Something similar is going on in movies with the proliferation of CGI effects. They not only enhance a film these days, they beat us over the head with FX until we're nauseous. They're like kids with a new toy who will use it until it's worn out it's welcome. Kinda like the web designer people you were refering to.
ray ray: true man, true. Things tend to build up inside me if I don't let off a lil steam now and again. I go through phases of being perpetually grumpy.
the fool: cheers! I hear what you're saying about the films. I heard that about the Terminator 3 film (I aint seen it) but apparently it's just an excuse to have a load of effects with some kind of weak story to try and hold it all together. A bit like a porn film. Only with less naked people. And more exposions.
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