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On 22 Feb 1996 16:51:51 GMT, wolfman2@gate.net (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.
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>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


Good Webdesigners are mostly people with experience as "paperdesigner"
who find this medium boring or who do not like it that what you see on
the screen is never what you get in print.

At the company were I work (webpublishing), all the graphic designers
have a background in 'paperdesign' or industrial design.

However, we don't use people who were specialized in DTP. Everybody
here has a lot of experience in photographic manipulation, not in
lay-out. Why? HTML doesn't allow too much on lay-out.

We try to make a user-friendly, comprehensive graphic interface,
because this is really important for large websites. After that, we
try to fit in the text as good as possible. Because pages should look
good on a 640*480 resolution there's most of the times not much place
to play with the lay-out.

Also, good webdesigners should know HTML very good. There's no point
in creating roughs on paper and in drawing programs (we use Corel a
lot for this) if the concept and lay-out can't be translated to HTML.

Another thing, 'paperdesigners' are mostly good with XPress or
Pagemaker and with Illustrator or Freehand. They can only do some
basic stuff in Photoshop and that's it. Webdesigners on the other hand
are mostly computergraphic maniacs who completely control Photoshop
with all the plugins, they play with 3D packages like 3D-Sudio,
Lightwave, Stratastudio, ..., they learn Director just for the fun of
it, and if there's any time left they search for the mysteries behind
Hot Java.

The thing is, most paperdesigners consider their work as a job, while
webdesigners (I like the word screendesigner more, its meaning is not
so narrow) take more pride in their work, they consider their job as a
hobby that went a lot further than they intended to.

Kristof Vandommele
	kvandommele@imagic.be
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