myinkblog.com— This post will discuss those four principles as they relate to web design. By keeping these design theories fresh in your mind, you will be sure to design cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing sites.
Jun 15, 2009View in Crawl 4
"do your damnest to make it look reasonable on IE"Worst advice ever. While I share your disdain of IE, and hate the fact that it mangles my carefully crafted CSS, I understand that the majority of the people on the internet use the default browser that came with their machines. Since most computers come with Windows, that means IE. So unless you want the majority of your users to visit a site that is just "reasonable" and not exactly what it should be, you should absolutely make sure it renders properly in IE.Now, depending on your audience, you may be lucky and not have to worry about IE. Tech sites and the such have a much higher percentage of the audience using a more standards-compliant browser. But for most companies' public sites, the significant majority of visitors use IE7. Hell, on our public site, IE6 has almost an equal share to Firefox.
How so? Can a site not be great without a large product image and multiple fonts? I'd say heck no. Half of the web today is a complete mimic of what is now considered the 'norm' of site design. Give me creativity any day over this.
droplisterJun 15, 2009
Sure. I just meant no geocities style hosting scheme. This isn't a scientific poll.
insertaliashereJun 15, 2009
"do your damnest to make it look reasonable on IE"Worst advice ever. While I share your disdain of IE, and hate the fact that it mangles my carefully crafted CSS, I understand that the majority of the people on the internet use the default browser that came with their machines. Since most computers come with Windows, that means IE. So unless you want the majority of your users to visit a site that is just "reasonable" and not exactly what it should be, you should absolutely make sure it renders properly in IE.Now, depending on your audience, you may be lucky and not have to worry about IE. Tech sites and the such have a much higher percentage of the audience using a more standards-compliant browser. But for most companies' public sites, the significant majority of visitors use IE7. Hell, on our public site, IE6 has almost an equal share to Firefox.
nouman6Jun 15, 2009
How so? Can a site not be great without a large product image and multiple fonts? I'd say heck no. Half of the web today is a complete mimic of what is now considered the 'norm' of site design. Give me creativity any day over this.
avigorverminJun 15, 2009
this poll is biased because this article is about good website design.
icefreezJun 16, 2009
If you are not sure if that counts.. then no it does not count.
eapubuduJun 18, 2009
Verry helpfull!!! Thanx mate!!!
destinyx3Jun 18, 2009
This is nothing new, but not a lot of people apply the techniques mentioned.
auraboltJun 26, 2009
You don't have to actually design to digg an article... maybe people are just interested..
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