Posted by Chaddy2222 on 01/05/07 02:36

al jones wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2007 04:36:37 -0800, Chaddy2222 wrote:
>
> > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> >> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well you got the quoting part down, but the reply part seems a bit
> >>> lacking!
> >>
> >> He just posted the same query in alt.www.webmaster, where he says he is
> >> eleven years old. For some reason, the site doesn't look like something
> >> an 11-year-old would produce.
> >>
> >> I wonder if he is Geoff Hutchison ?
> >>
> > Hmmm, nah, you can tell that in other ways.
> > I will agree though that the site does not really look like something a
> > kid of that age would be interested in, it's to plain (and frankly the
> > english is not really 11-year old speak and the design is not
> > interesting enough for what is assentually (spelling) a gameing site.
> > This is a site where bright colours and stuff would really work.
>
> Now, c'mon guys. It's the first web page for a youngster who (I've looked
> around some of his other references) seems to have a little more than a bit
> of education. Maybe the fact that his english is better than yours makes
> you uncomfortable - but having worked with a few 'whiz kids' *I* find them
> (lack of a better word) enjoyable.
>
> Would you really have been more accepting of a flashy site, full of
> everything that some of the notorious sites have, done striictly in
> html/css more believable - I'd have had a heard time believing *that* was
> done by an unaided 11 year old. Personally I find this something an 11
> year old would/could put together for a first try - and he at least had the
> smarts to come to the web groups for a critique (even if he did multipost,
> which is a no-no, Danny).
>
> //al
They are all good points.
I was simply makeing an observation based on what BTS observed, (it may
have appeared that some of the language used was a bit surfisticated
for the audience in question), which may or may not be the case.
Over all though it was a good effort though (and at least he's trying
to find a better editor to help him out a bit).
So the nesxt version of his site may look less plain (not that
planeness is such a bad thing, after all, i'm no graphic designer by
any strech of the emajonation.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

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