Re: UKNM: ATTENTION: New Business People

[Danny O'Brien]

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:50:28PM +0100, Fox Tucker wrote:

> >> Maybe they put it into a graphic to weed out clients that could possibly,

> >> just possibly, turn out to be complete tossers?

> >

> >I have to plead US-based ignorance here. Is "tossers" UK slang for

> >clients who know what their users want and won't be bullied into

> >building cool distractions instead? If so, thats the effect these

> >sites are having whether they intended to or not.

> 

> No, "Tossers" is generally someone that knows what they want and runs around

> wasting the time of creative design agencies, when all they really need is a

> 15 old student who can crunch html when he/she gets home from college.

> 


You think that building a usable site with decent navigation using HTML that

any browser can understand is the job only worthy of a fifteen year old?


You think a site that uses a preponderance of text-gifs, distracting Flash

animation, and a fistful of frames is a sign of *accomplishment*?


You'll excuse me if my head explodes in an eye-catching, vector-graphics

driven flurry of polygons.


d.

ps if you have the e-mail address of these fifteen year olds, I know a couple

of Web ventures who are looking to invest 45 million UKP in that kind of nous.


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