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Michael Knauf wrote:
> 
> Tim Speck (Grafx100@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> :
> : I agree... the BEST Web page designers are publication designers. ANYONE
> : can learn HTML and play with kewl pictures. It takes a designer to put
> : it all together so that it most effectively communicates the message
> : it's supposed to convey. It takes a lot more than an HTML program and
> : PhotoShop to design a truly "hot" and effective Web page. So, the fact
> : these folks ARE looking for printed examples ahows they know what to
> : look for.
> 
> No! the best web page designers are on the web. Someone who knows how to
> design for 4 color printing will not know how to optimally create SMALL
> graphics, will have little or no experience with gif files, or with
> balancing the size vs quality issue of jpeg files _for display on your
> average monitor_
> 
> Designers with print ad experience will not utilize the full abilities of
> hypertext, they will give you something that looks like a print ad on a
> web page. - it will be slow to load, overburdened with large graphacs and
> generally unappealing to those of us who have seen good web design.
> 
> They also won't offer aimated gif's sounds, shockwave, 3-D or any of the
> "kewl" possibilites the webs multimedia nature offers.
> 
> Michael Knauf
> One World Design
> http://www.gate.net/~wolfman2/owd

 Some good points Wolfman, I must agree with both views, however, in that if a Web designer has 
no graphic design sense he will most likely be ineffective on the web. If a publication designer 
has no web experience to back up his knowledge of layout then the graphic content could be too 
heavy for the limited bandwidth of the web. 

 I suggest that publication designers study web possibilities and HTML extensively before jumping 
on the web bandwagon, in order to get a better understanding of what this new media can do and 
what it has trouble with.

 Web designers better not expect to design my site without some design classes or experience with 
art, effective layout skills, and a desire to push the creative envelope.

Is this unreasonable? I don't think so. But that's my view. 

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