Mayeb I am just a web snob but it is amazing how much people can get wrong: from color matching, the layout, to design.
I have written about this like 10 times. Web design is no longer cutting up pictures in photoshop and placing them into static tables. Look at this graphic from part of a website that someone wanted me to construct. I am so sick of people building websites in photoshop. It is so 1875 in internet years.
Look at this disaster. Can even the totally untrained eye see that the blues do not match and that the darker blue bar is one or two pixels off from the lighter blue section. This kind of thing is a result of sloppy photoshopping. It makes me crazy.
As usual, (e:paul) is absolutely correct.
agree with z. BR magazine, at least the layout, is terrible.
As a rather avid student of the capitalists I must point out the economic opportunity this presents to the firm that can produce quality stuff. What it comes down to (e:paul) is that you need the right to fire the people you work with, right?
~E.
Point/Counterpoint: Web Designer != Print Designer
Equally irksome are web designers who fail to understand that paper is a fundamentally different medium than LCD [Buffalo Rising Magazine I'm looking at you]. Freakishly bright colors cannot be reproduced with uncoated newsprint. Color cannot be used for emphasis when every page is a God damned rainbowsplosion. Text columns must be narrow or have greater leading*, or they're unreadable. You cannot use sans-serif type for long text runs. Ten point type is REALLY BIG. Drawing peoples' heads without faces was not even cool before Microsoft started doing it. Running a press in Buffalo is a lot more expensive than running a server in Los Angeles.
Of course, I could have told them this and saved them a lot of frustration, but alas, nobody ever asks me.
- Z
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Trouble is, no graphic designer has ever been trained in the ways of the web. They've been honed for print use, what will leap off the page or shelf. To reconnect their thinking & training into smething that will work on the web is something no "designer" will ever admit to having to have to do, but all would be better if they did. That said "Holy crap, that's crap!"