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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Yup, I agree with DL... You can have jaw dropping designs but if their hard to use as a "website" then their all for nothing really. That's not to say websites need to be boring, but you do need to keep in mind what the site's goals are. Web design is visual communication on so many levels. The colours, the type, the images, all of it should work together to help communicate to the user what that website is about all the while the design should be helping to point them in the direction of the information their after. The "experience" of the website so to speak should be simple and pleasant. Flash buttons that could work just as well as normal HTML/JavaScript rollovers complicate things for people without the flash plug-in. In fact, they make the site damn near un-usable. Pimping the phone number with animations is also a bad idea. Most users still access the internet with dialup connections and they don't have a second phone line. If they can't use the phone whilst their online shoving a phone number in their face is an insult. Furthermore, it kind of says that the site is fairly content-less and they shouldn't bother viewing the site and should just call with their questions instead. As for the visual design, well, it?s a site about community but I don't see a single image of people. It might seem like a cliché but you really need something to smack the viewer in the face and say, hay, this is who we are! And a super sized logo just won't cut it I'm afraid. If you argue points like these to your client I honestly can't see why they wouldn't agree to some changes. Make them want a website that works for their company rather than a website that works to be noticed through flashy web technologies and other gimmicks. Take 2Advanced as an example. Their site is all about kicking arse with design in new media technologies and it says it well, but if you look at the work they've done for other clients, the multimedia aspects are a lot more low key and the design is well integrated into what the website is meant to be about. Loading...
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