Posted by Travis Newbury on 01/23/08 23:37

On Jan 23, 6:28 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Neatly skirting around the point that giving the clients exactly
> what they want is aiding and abetting their eventual failure in
> some cases. You never seem seem to recognise the responsibility
> of a good author to put up a damned fight for what might be a
> good thing.

And one sign of a good author is to not decide on how the site will be
designed before you learn who the target audience is, and what the
owner wants to present.


> You are too ready to encourage authors to do whatever
> the customer wants and you think all these ditties about the
> world being full of choices equally good (I like blue, he likes
> pink) is going to help justify this. Well, it is not going to
> help.

That is not what I meant at all. Sorry if that is what came across.
A good author will not burn any bridges before they know which one
they want to cross. What irritate me are those that say the word
"never do this..."

I believe we should never say never, we should always look at the
entire picture first.

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