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Why graphic designers are not Web designers

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

I used to think my vocation would always be graphic designer. Christ, I even took a degree course in graphic communication. However, I haven’t the foggiest about type setting or colour separation. These technical specifications are what graphic designers are au fait with—not me. This is why I soon left my course and landed my first Web design role at Diskeeper Corporation.

I knew my strengths lay in what we—online experts—have come to call today, digital media. Whereas the technical specifications of a graphic designer are type setting and colour separation plates, the Web designer working knowledge is in Web page expansion, graphical user interface (GUI) design and accessibility considerations.

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Why aren’t experts like Microsoft being expert?

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

It shocks me to see web programming examples breaking the rules of accessibility and common practices in published books. I don’t feel it sets the greatest of examples to anyone trying to get a foot in the industry when supposed authorities on subjects cannot even get it correct in their own publications. Take Microsoft Press for instance. Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5, published 2008. This is written by Dino Esposito, an authority on ASP.NET and AJAX. When it comes to writing HTML he seems to have forgotten the fact that we keep the code in lowercase. All of his HTML examples begin with a capital letter. Now I understand that ASP.NET is different and uses some uppercase characters for server side controls, but please let us not forget the industry standard for writing static HTML. Long have the days passed when HTML tags were written in complete uppercase and contained now deprecated elements such as FONT and CENTER.Furthermore another example I have spotted failed to include a DOCTYPE and the appropriate XML format for closing a HR tag. I realise this is not the purpose of the book and that the level of reader will most likely have a full understanding of how we conduct ourselves as web designer and developers in 2008. But why do experts insist on writing poor examples?

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Working smarter: Building expandable, modular websites

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

From experience, clients who commission DigiKev to build a small website solution, perhaps even just a mini site with a handful of pages, at some point in the future may require additional pages or sections to be added. Larger websites with a multitude of information and complex structures will more than likely require expansion or remodelling of the configuration to accommodate a new campaign style or to work more efficiently for search engine optimisation after studying the analytics.

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