I hope that the author does not mind this being cross posted, but it really
drives home the point. In particular, that commercial sites want a corporate
look, an image, and are prepared to pay real money to get it.
As soon as images were allowed inline in HTML documents, the web became a new
graphical design medium. Some people will just want to put out text, but some
will want to apply graphical design skills and make a document. These people
are, at least, a sizeable miniority and there should be a means for them to
achieve their ends. If style sheets or similar information are not added to
html, the inevitable price will be documents that only look good on a particular
browser, at a particular window size, with the default fonts, etc.
Marius said:
>Yeah, WWW is definitely a technology that graphic artists
>should grab with all hands, especially if they're HTML-
>literate. Whether you want to just parse HTML or not
>is up to you, but designing the layout with images, icons
>and so on is an excellent opportunity to make some
>badly needed money.
>Together with the design firm I work with, I just landed
>a contract with Norwegian Telecom Research that will
>pay us NOK 96000 (about $13000, I guess) for designing
^^^^^^^^^
>the look of their commercial WWW services.
^^^^^^^^
>WWW-design is the first true example of graphic design on
>the net, and should be appreciated as such.
>Marius
>[email protected]
>http://www.ifi.uio.no/~mariusw/
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