Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/08/07 14:56

Travis Newbury wrote:
> On Oct 8, 5:26 am, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailbox-sicur...@yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
>> http://www.mortgagenews2.com
>> It's from the same company that SpaceGirl gave the previous example
>> from. It's a shocker though, I mean it should have been done in HTML +
>> CSS for style + PHP / some other server side language for the user
>> account stuff.
>
> A "Shocker" Hardly.
>
> Should have? We can not tell because we do not know the audience well
> enough to make that decision.
>
> Could have, absolutely. The company and developers need to understand
> what their visitors want. You don't know, there may have been a
> calling for this.
>

BS. Nearly 4 minutes before I could see anything. As a client I assume I
would be interested in mortgages, not dancing animated squirrels or
whatever. So while I'm watching a progress bar instead of getting
mortgage rates I can get the info a www.lendingtree.com in 24 seconds.

Now I if I cannot read the text on mortgagenews2.com, well I'm screwed.
lendingtree.com also has stupid pixel-fixed design, but with
lendingtree.com I can dump their lousy CSS and bump the font size up and
read it if I wish.

Yes the deziner does not have ultimate control of the styling as with
flash, but then a potential customer doesn't have to be driving away
because of some poor design decisions made by the said deziner!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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