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Originally Posted by linnetwoods
I think it's important to try and put yourself back in the shoes you wore the first time you entered the Internet and remember how alien it all seemed, however exciting. The simpler and easier to navigate the site was, the more likely you were to enjoy it and want to return... Is one building sites with which to impress other webmasters or with which to appeal to the public? The two things may not, necessarily, be compatible...
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Oh so true!
But returning to being a newbie? It fills me with horror thinking of going through the process all over again of smacking the monkey on a banner then finding it was a link to another site and totally lost because the back button no longer works! Thank heavens for banner blindness, which I find sets in after 6 months or so of surfing. Unless you are targeting the silver surfers of this world when modern trends and techniques are totally lost and blue links in the same window are the required way to go.
I posted a thread a while back called "If it ain't broke don't fix it" I think we tend to allow other designers who we assume to know far more than our knowledge base to influence the way we build a site. (at least I feel that way) Is this to please and impress other designers and forgetting the users of a site?
I was surprised recently reading a thread by a so called web designer on this WPW board when I followed a link to his site only to find he claimed to have built my main website!!!!! Myself and my partner have worked on this for the last 4 years!!!! I suspect when he posted he was looking for credibility from other designers not in truth for any help.
I called him. Slaps all round! Site is now down!
/Astro