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Re: Freelance DTP'ers wanted

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From: dtanner
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <4gi6v7$2776@news.gate.net>, wolfman2@gate.net (Michael Knauf) writes:
>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

I concur.
Later,
Chris.
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From: dtanner@ivory.trentu.ca
Subject: Re: Freelance DTP'ers wanted
Date: 1996/02/25
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