OK, admittedly I have not kept up with the blog like I should. Well, it is a failure in the greatest sense of the word. I have never claimed that it was anything other than that.
Luckily I have been busy with MANY of my own projects and school, so I don’t quite yet feel like killing myself. Not to mention that beautiful family of mine.
Anyway, what has spawned my rant this time is a WPDFD (Web Page Design for Designers) article entitled, “Web Design Success Story.”
It goes on to say that “many of the good attributes of good web design can be found on the web site of” SamataMason. Then it rambles on about a few non-solid facts, in fact, not even facts in my opinion.
“The elements of text blocks and image float on a gray background and
can be readily brought up on either a small or large monitor without
having to scroll left/right or top/bottom.”
Um… no. On a 640×480 resolution the site is completely unusable. OK, not completely but at least 10-15% of the right side is missing.
The site DOES have a fairly unique composition, but so what? That fact makes it a successful “web design” firm?
How about the fact their site relies entirely on Flash? Or that the text is utterly unreadable and the text cannot be modified to suit the user. Make a site inaccessible to text readers and those with disabilities is NOT a successful Web design firm, I don’t care what anyone says.
Oh wait… I forgot, along with the fact that ugly purses can sell for hundreds of dollars so can Web pages be designed for only the most elitist and moronic of clients. I think it might be the same mentality as women who wear shoes that kill their feet, models that starve themselves because anorexia looks sexy to sickos, top designers, and homosexuals.
Does this mean I am never going to have an uber-successful Web design company or work for one? Beats the hell out of me but I refuse to design sites that way… well, unless I get paid tons of bucks. But I won’t go down fighting, I will claim that an accessible Web site can easily be had by all.
For the browsers that can do it, spoon feed them all of that tiny-text shite. For the browsers that cannot or do not want this… give them a nice textual representation.
Now THAT sounds like a good Web design firm. Hire me.