Do web designers actually use the internet?
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I agree. It's a shame Caitlin's site has mid-grey tiny fonts on a white background.
Please note the lack of an email in the top right.
For some sites, I've completely given up on remembering the password. I just reset it every time I have to log in.
Twitter on the "desktop" (I assume she means the standard website) has a "Save to Pocket" button? I'd wager that's a an add-on or extension in her browser that's putting it there, and has nothing to do with Twitter.
2. Different teams maybe? Don't necessarily see this as the designer's fault.
3. That does seem an outdated concept these days but sometimes the client wants it that way.
4. That's a marketing problem, not design.
5. That's a subjective thing that depends on many aspects of the design.
6. Because they might work for the intended audience? Kind of depends on the reasoning behind it to decide whether it was a good idea or not.
7. Believe it or not, some clients don't want to plan, or want to pay, for mobile views.
As someone who started out as a web designer that now delves more into the development side, I am often shocked at the number of designers that know little of how to design for a web browser. They know all about the rules and practices for designing for magazines, newspapers, and billboards; but nothing on designing a web page. Too many designers get through school not knowing what they are designing for when it comes to web.
The equivalent is for a print designer to design something in Illustrator for a certain size and type of paper and never actually printing the design on that paper to see how it turns out.
I'm in the school of thought that a web designer should know HTML/CSS and how browsers render those elements as a web page. They don't necessarily need front-end developer level knowledge, but if they don't at least know the basics of how browsers work then they'll always try designs that are not workable.
Personally, if I ran a web design curriculum, I would require HTML/CSS education first, then start on design. But it's often the reverse, or worse in that designers are taught all kinds of different avenues of design, but web design is that kid in the corner no one picks for dodgeball. I've interviewed many a designer with nice school projects but not one web project in the portfolio.
3. Well that is a pretty silly quibble. You can choose how you send it: either click on it and use your default email client or right click and copy the link/email address to your clipboard and use it wherever you want. Easy peasy.
5. In my experience, designers are the only ones who actually put a softer white in their designs/pages. It's something the average developer that got stuck with doing a front-end design wouldn't do.
Ummm... top right is a "contact me" mailto link.
> If you have a text-heavy site, please pick something softer than a stark white background. My eyes. They burn. If you're taking suggestions, I vote gray.
What. The background this was written on was pure white.
ironically, all the sites that have mobile versions are the ones that prevent me to read them on my phone.
No. That'll get you far too much spam.
<a href="mailto:me@example.com">me at example dot com</a>