Good Design

Web sites need to be far better designed than anything in the print medium, due to the very interdisciplinary nature of the website.

Because a magazine with even minimum design gets its information across to the reader. You buy it because you care about the issues in its headlines, if you want more you jump inside, 'print' by its nature is a tactile phenomenon; touch, smell and accessibility, and it is for that reason it will never die.

But websites are purely visual and aural, one screen at a time. Encouraging the viewer to go beyond the first layer, even learn where to go for what is required is a common problem for designers. It is their job to bring the viewer inside through the "Dance of the seven veils," and once inside, guide them, not to confuse or frustrate them.

Websites that work are sites that do what you want it to do. They do not insult your intelligence, but neither do they obfuscate. They must indicate the wealth of material lying beneath the first page, but also offer you options and alternate means of approach. The answer may lie in better selling of the 'land' - in urban planning, to use a metaphor. The solutions to timeless Internet problems - navigation, access to information - will be provided by design.

Good design means pertinent information, content, good 'surfing', exploring, and gathering. The designer is the Web's real pathfinder. The designer achieves this goal by drawing up an agenda for good web design. lexmark ink cartridges, tp r0100c. . cottage rentals, ontario cottages.

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