Posted by M on 06/08/07 07:01

"Ed Seedhouse" <eseedhouse@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> A business card is paper. The web is not. It's perfectly possible to
> "brand" a web page without making a design for paper.

I agree with you completely.

> Of course I suggested nothing like that. The web takes graphic images,
> it just doesn't display them in the same way as paper, because it isn't
> paper. And we have to work with that fact.

Again, I completely agree.

> Strawman.

?

> But the fact remains that the web isn't
> paper and there's nothing you can do to make it into paper.

No argument from me.

> People who are good can create good web pages while still working within
> the nature of the web.

Absolutely. I'd go even further to say that a good web designer (versus a
web technician)
can create fantastic pages BECAUSE of the nature of the web.

> Very strict rules, especially in Japanese, but great artists
> nevertheless produce great art within those rigid rules.

A haiku composer carefully chooses words to create specific sensory
impressions,
even going so far as to use white space as part of the composition to convey
a mood,
a message, perhaps a bit of universal wisdom.

That's just poor practice.

A good haiku composer should simply toss out 17 syllables on paper
and let the reader compose their own haiku.

That way the reader's enjoyment of the poem isn't hampered by any
preconceived intentions of the composer.
It's the medium that's important, not the message.

>>Companies aren't going to pay for that.
>
> Most companies don't understand that the web is not paper. That doesn't
> turn the web into paper.

I agree.

> if you insist on treating
> it like paper the result is going to be lousy web sites.

You're correct.

See? We're not so far apart after all.

M

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