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The way of the web

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I’ve been in web development for a couple years now, mostly behind the scenes CSS coding (which I dig), so I’ve worked with quite a few different designers that basically email me a jpg or psd of what they want a site to look like and I make it happen. I notice a trend that has started become more and more prevalent since I went to An Event Apart – Boston back in March and paid closer attention to typographic, column placement, grid layouts, and readability.

Call it being stuck inside the box, or whatever, but I see a lot of designers clinging onto the concept that the web should look like something tangible (book, magazine, dog, etc.). While the its considered pretty young…around 21 years old… I think the web has been around long enough and created such a great presence for itself that it can be separated from aspects of the physical world. Of course, this don’t concern most website out there, but who said that nytimes.com has to look like a digital news paper. I understand the branding issues that come with making an online news paper look like the paper version, but with the influx of XML/RSS, I don’t see any reason to not have fun with designing on the web.

Anyways, this is my maiden post to the blog and, in a nutshell, I think there are still far too many people not using the web to its fullest potential.
my2cents

with_ease,
Tim

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