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Posted by Tony Cooper on 10/19/05 15:33
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:52:34 GMT, Travis Newbury
<travisenwbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
>dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> said:
>> No, Parry has hit the nail on the head about stalling,
>> influencing etc. That is the real world. You have a fantasy
>> picture of a hard bitten remorseless uncompromising world. Don't
>> be so cynical.
>
>Interesting, I see it differently. I see Parry as the cynical one by
>leaving his client in a lurch if the client does not do what Parry
>says.
>
>Tell me again, who's website is it?
If I was in the market to purchase website design, I can't imagine
hiring a designer that would argue with me about the content, visual
aspects, or sound aspects of the site. If my intent is to put up a
website to sell lawn ornaments to trailer park residents, and my sense
of the market tells me that an animated windmill and the automatic
playing of "Farmer in the Dell" will appeal to my target market, I
don't expect argument from the designer.
How the windmill is made to appear on the site, and how the sound is
embedded in the site, is the designer's business and I should not
argue with that.
Commercial sites are there to sell products. The site owner should
know what his or her market responds to. The site owner should not
have to look for a website designer that is knowledgable about what
appeals to the market or shares the same aesthetic tastes of the
market segment.
The problem is when neither the site owner nor the site designer knows
that "Whose website is it?" should be written rather than "Who's
website is it?".
--
Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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