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@RyanReese wrote: WOtis: Stack everything? Please. You've just lost your design, and in advertising, the design (and the copy) is everything. Effective headlines and copy (The purpose of a headline is...
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@WOtis wrote: A Website (for business) isn't designed to be "an experience." It is designed to convey information about a product or service. It is designed to SELL that product or service. If a...
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@WOtis wrote: So, how much scrolling do you want to do to read copy on a Website designed to sell product? I can read a whole page of copy on my desktop monitor without scrolling horizontally or...
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@RyanReese wrote: WOtis: So, how much scrolling do you want to do to read copy on a Website designed to sell product? I can read a whole page of copy on my desktop monitor without scrolling...
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@TechnoBear wrote: WOtis: Personally I think it would make me crazy to try to use these small devices to do anything on the Web other than just play around. Perhaps they are fine for social media. I...
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@WOtis wrote: I just edited that. You might want to read the edit just for grins. Read full topic
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@PaulOB wrote: WOtis: You've just lost your design, and in advertising, the design (and the copy) is everything. I think you will find that generally on the web "Content is King". Otherwise you may as...
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@WOtis wrote: PaulOB: I think you will find that generally on the web "Content is King" I thought that's what I said. Headlines and copy are everything in advertising. Read full topic
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@PaulOB wrote: Then we don't disagree on that point Read full topic
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@WOtis wrote: PaulOB: Sites are searched for and found by their content and not by how pretty they look. True for a search engine. But a prospect is unimpressed by a crappy looking site. A...
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@Mittineague wrote: WOtis: It is the company's "face" on the Web. It had better look good. Agreed Precisely why sites need to be designed to look as good as possible no matter how they're being...
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@WOtis wrote: Well thank God someone agrees that design is important. As for the rest, i also agree, except where such device does not allow for the site to be viewed as it was created to be viewed. I...
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@SamA74 wrote: WOtis: On a small screen, it's no good, and does not serve the purpose for which it was designed, which is to attract new business and show completed projects. WOtis: Or this one, my...
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@WOtis wrote: SamA74: That means that the other ~50% of potential customers who use mobiles get a good user experience too. The purpose of a Website is not to create "an experience!" (Unless the site...
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@TechnoBear wrote: WOtis: The purpose of a Website is not to create "an experience!" That's not what @SamA74 is saying. He's referring to the visitor's experience of using a site. I have a friend who...
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@SamA74 wrote: WOtis: The purpose of a Website is not to create "an experience!" (Unless the site is being created purely for entertainment, I suppose). What is meant by "user experience" (UX) is not...
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@WOtis wrote: TechnoBear: That kind of minimalist advertising may work for major, well-known brands At the time, Sony was not a "well known" brand. At least not like it is today. Read full topic
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@WOtis wrote: SamA74: The height line doesn't even need to be there It does if I want my header to appear. Look, I learned CSS from the Sitepoint books. Take that header height away, and my header...
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@WOtis wrote: SamA74: n Firefox responsive design view, it crops off when it gets below the fixed 960px width and you get a horizontal scroller. I'm not seeing this. It looks fine to me. I see the...
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@SamA74 wrote: WOtis: Take that header height away, and my header background image is gone. OK, I'll give you that, in the context of a container with no content, only a background, set a height. I...
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