Article 1 - Dear Print Designer Doing Web Design
This article should probably be bookmarked for all graphic design students who haven't dealt very much with web design, because it covers some of the basic mess-ups common to web design. It talks about resolution (72 ppi!) and reminds the reader that a designer has to be aware of the size of the browser that they are working with and how it changes and that a designer must make their design work for many different sized windows. I like that he mentioned that a concern for web-safe colors isn't really necessary because the internet isn't really limited to them anymore, because having to stick to web-safe colors really messes with the whole design process.
Article 2 - Print Design vs. Web Page Design
This article is a bit more technical than the first one. I did not know before reading it that JPEG stood for "Joint Photographers Experts Group." Though it is more technical, the first article is a little clearer. The point of this article is to remind the designer that they need to be focused on what their client needs in a successful website, not what they can do themselves. This article points out the importance of using the most efficient methods for creating a website, so that the page will load faster, because that is a very important factor in getting people to actually view the website.
No comments:
Post a Comment