Posted by M on 06/07/07 18:35

"Ed Seedhouse" <eseedhouse@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> What you would like is irrelevant. Are you writing the site for
> yourself or for your visitors? If the latter, then let them decide what
> fonts they prefer.

Hmm, not to start a big debate but that's wrong in a lot of cases.

When you give a business card to someone, the look of that card says
something about you. There's a whole industry and philosophy to image
branding.

Do you hand out plain white business cards with plain black text and some
stickers with graphics, or some pencil crayons, and tell your potential
client "Here, design your own card."? (Actually, that may be the NEXT BIG
TREND. Beck's latest CD came with a roll-your-own case liner. . .)

Just because your advertising medium is the web, doesn't necessarily change
that.

And that's a good thing for web designers. A plain vanilla site with default
black text, white background and simple images using only paragraph tags,
image tags and a few headers is the ultimate "flexible" format. I'm sure
though that you don't build those for clients with the justification "oh, I
like to let the end-user decide their own fonts, layout, etc."

Companies aren't going to pay for that.

The original OP has a valid concern that is, unfortunately, not easily
solvable at this time.

M

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