Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 10/17/07 07:28

dorayme wrote:
> In article <13h9vkk2i0p5274@corp.supernews.com>,
> mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> wrote:
>> It does not. As long as you had her alone when you said it, it might
>> be OK, to say it, too. Once you've warned them, if people want to
>> pay for crap, well, it's their business and their money -- back off.
>
> Maybe... or maybe take a stand quietly, play about a bit, get the
> list back in the html and css something like:
>
> #menu a {font-size: .75em;}
> #menu li {list-style: none;}
> #menu ul, li {margin:0;padding:0;}
> #menu ul, li {line-height: 1;}
>
> and ask the graphic designer to see if she can pick it from just
> looking at the website itself. If she cannot, then Bob will be
> OP's uncle.

I'll give it a try... I think it's worth it.

>
> All this line height stuff makes me nervous. It suggests a
> brittle perfection.
>

It's as if someone would say: the web is a static place. I, THE DESIGNER
AM IN CONTROL! but this is such an outdated view. This is not only true
for the visual design but also for the navigational design: most of the
graphic designer can not embrace the reality of a non-linear
navigational structure. They always think in terms of a book: a user
will always start at the first page and navigate along a predefined
path(hence the many useless intro-pages).

still angry
bernhard


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