A List Apart Survey 2008
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To what end? A recent meeting with a potential client pressed me into an interesting philosophical issue with web design. Should I create a site for somebody that does not need one? Who needs a website? Is quality of information my ward or am I simply a watchmaker (I cannot change time, I simply put [...]
David Eggers on content versus form:
Almost all design is bad, and on the web, that percentage of terribleness rises considerably. Because the medium is inherently cheap-looking, there’s almost no way to dignify it. So at McSweeney’s, we just put the words up. It takes our web guy, Kevin Shay, about two minutes.
There are a few [...]