Comments on: Why? http://kilianvalkhof.com/2008/web/why/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Robinson http://kilianvalkhof.com/2008/web/why/comment-page-1/#comment-7445 Mike Robinson Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:02:05 +0000 http://kilianvalkhof.com/?p=77#comment-7445 I think print designers that don't have a clue about the web are worse. Varying browsers and resolutions don't mean a thing to them! "I want this line to be exactly this font size everywhere and must only contain only these words, and this box must always be in this exact position even if they resize their browser and text. Oh and the footer ads must be above the fold because a visitor has to scroll to see them which is dumb". At least a client won't insist they are right because they have been "educated". They say A and they mean A, even if B,C or even D make more sense and are actually possible, A is the answer. It gets worse when they say come to the "compromise" of "ok, as long as it works in our studio browsers then we don't care". Sigh. Anyway, excellent post! I am not a designer so I don't have to work with clients on the design front, but the occasional "I was thinking about adding an animated gif..." phone calls are usually easily dealt with because they understand we know what is best for their business. I should point the studio's designers to this post though, I'm sure they would have plenty of fun stories and techniques! :D I think print designers that don’t have a clue about the web are worse. Varying browsers and resolutions don’t mean a thing to them! “I want this line to be exactly this font size everywhere and must only contain only these words, and this box must always be in this exact position even if they resize their browser and text. Oh and the footer ads must be above the fold because a visitor has to scroll to see them which is dumb”.

At least a client won’t insist they are right because they have been “educated”. They say A and they mean A, even if B,C or even D make more sense and are actually possible, A is the answer. It gets worse when they say come to the “compromise” of “ok, as long as it works in our studio browsers then we don’t care”. Sigh.

Anyway, excellent post! I am not a designer so I don’t have to work with clients on the design front, but the occasional “I was thinking about adding an animated gif…” phone calls are usually easily dealt with because they understand we know what is best for their business. I should point the studio’s designers to this post though, I’m sure they would have plenty of fun stories and techniques! :D

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