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04:21:2002 Entry: "How DARE I earn a living!"
How DARE I earn a living!
New SQUARE jPEG, Deb's "Summer Place"!
I found a random blog today that was proudly displaying a bunch of those "Validated HTML Certified Checked by W3C" buttons on their site and I couldn't click on their links! Kind of like the kind of pompous parents with the "my child is an honor roll student at..." bumper sticker, and they can't even signal properly or stay in their lane.
I also found something in my referrers yesterday that was a real NPW (Nasty Piece of Work) slagging sites like mine and another well-known web designer, that have the audacity to sell graphics to newbies because graphics pollute the web! Her site was horrible...bad color combinations, lame "hmmm...I've seen that graphic 1000 X before" pale blue cloud pattern background (which didn't go with her other color choices of green and pink and gold, BTW).
It all made me realize...people take this web stuff waaaaaay too seriously.
I'm off to work on my paintings, and maybe throw darts at my Jacob Nielsen dartboard.
4 Comments
I've seen that name a thousand times, but I've never understood who this Jacob Nielsen guy is, the name sounds danish though. Is he another webnazi or something?
Do you seriously throw darts?
Posted by Nico @ 03/13/2002 12:01 PM CST
Maybe not webnazi...webdictator, probably. He advocates a lot of standardization and graphicless design, but his own pages look like *#%@, and it's not because he uses no graphics (although I *AM* a bit biased about that), but he knows nothing about leading, so his lines seem really cramped together, and extremely hard to read. I mean if you're going to preach about "The Way Things Ought To Be" in whatever publishing paradigm, at least your own pages should be exemplary of fine style and make reading it painless.
Darts? I played darts a few times and thought it was really fun and always thought it'd be fun to have a dartboard, but there's no room in the house. :-/
Posted by Ann @ 03/13/2002 12:14 PM CST
There are more of those guys, there's something called webdesigners or webdevelopers journal, a guy give a lot of advice about what is pretty and not and the page look like shit ;o]
I have dart, but nowhere to hang it either. We tried to hang it up, but then Anne miss the dartboard all the time and the wall gets full of holes ;o]
Posted by Nico @ 03/13/2002 05:35 PM CST
You know what they say, those who can do, those who can't, preach. Yeah the net would be just so much better as a bunch of pages full of long, closely packed lines of black type against white. Uh-huh.
Posted by dargie @ 03/13/2002 07:37 PM CST