Re: UKNM: Web Design Agencies

[John Braithwaite]

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:06:57 +0100

From: Duncan Clubb <

duncanoffworld [dot] net

>

Subject: Re: UKNM: Web Design Agencies


I stand by my comment - design is one of many tools used to realise the

elements of a marketing mix.  Would you count printing, laminating,

stapling, etc. as part of the marketing mix?  These may be somewhat more

*base* parts of the production process, but design itself is only a step

towards producing corporate identity, personality, and the rest.

Marketing and design are separate skills, and I'm not devaluing either

of them - just drawing a distinction between design and the products of

design. Didn't really think I was being that controversial.

</eek>

duncan


JB writes:

I think design is crucial to a website - but what I beleive is the main

problem is that poor website design is because some are more concerned with

the graphical and aesthetic appeal of a site rather than the main two

issues: navigation and communication (to the end-user). A good designer will

realise that a website has to function as well as look good, a bad designer

just wants to produce 'eye-candy' for his/her portfolio.


re: flash - best used as cartoons - to sell to kids! If you want to be taken

seriously, then bin Flash.



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