Has he no shame?
Although it’s unfashionable to admit it these days I’m going to own up and say that I have occasionally dabbled in the arcane art of web design. Not for profit you understand, purely as a hobby (does that make it worse?).
Anyway I’ve decided to throw up a few samples of work here.
Web design has a bit of a bad name these days and I’m not surprised. Too many ignorant clients with great expectations and too many cowboys willing to take advantage of them, seems to have left everyone bitten and twice shy.
Another problem is that the client is seldom the end-user and this leads to a conflict that even the most scrupulous web designer finds difficult to solve. In order to impress the client -who is footing the bill- the designer needs to present lots of flashy bells and whistles and fancy visual tricks. But these are the very things that obstruct and distract the end-user when they are actually trying to use the site. No wonder everyone is disappointed with the result.
Anyway, it’s not all doom and gloom. The dotcom collapse seems to have cleared out a lot of the cowboys and the back-to-basics approach seems to be back in vogue.
So if you have any questions about web design let me know. I’ll only have one answer. Keep it simple.
Mark Waters marked time at 6:38 pm on November 10th, 2003 .
