The Phelps Webdesign Manifesto
Eric has an article about Websites that ‘engage other senses’ than sight. I want to make my position on the matter perfectly, absolutely clear.
I do not want the webpages I visit to smell.
I do not want the webpages I visit to make music.
I do not want the webpages I visit to make sounds of any kind.
I do not want the webpages I visit to have dancing pictures.
I do not want the webpages I visit to have dancing text.
I do not want the webpages I visit to have more pictures than text.
I do not want the webpages I visit to specify a typeface.
I do not want the webpages I visit to specify a type size.
I do not want the webpages I visit to feature text rendered to bitmap files.
I do not want the webpages I visit to constantly reload for no bleeding reason.
I do not want the webpages I visit to have non-contrasting backgrounds and text.
I do not want the webpages I visit to have a detailed pattern for a background.
I want the webpages I visit to have lots of easy to read text with clear navigation and markups that convey brilliant and insightful ideas.
I do not want the webpages I visit to reach out and feel me up or spray perfume at me or do anything but give me something to read and respond to.
…that convey brilliant and insightful ideas.
You lost me on that one.
As far as that one goes, I’ll take clearly displayed mediocre ideas over brilliant ones tagged with BLINK.
“Webdesign”, bah! Every enlightened intellectual knows that it’s “webevolve”. I would like to see your “evidence” that websites are “designed”. And good luck proving that there is some kind of “intelligence” behind USENET. :p
One of my favorite ebook sites looks like it is about to change from a more Googlish low-key design to a nearly MSN-like graphics intensive design, but with a less intuitive layout.
Way to read the signs of the times guys.