I am sick of hearing people say that HTML sites need to be more “free flowing” and that they are just “boxes” and “grids” which are “boring”.
A recent article by Jeffery Zeldman compared web design to architecture. There are certain fundamentals in place that work – things that don’t change. A web designer who complains about grids and boxes is like an architect who complains about gravity.
This is an excerpt from an article by Jeffery Zeldman on A List Apart. Read the full article here.
The inexperienced or insufficiently thoughtful designer complains that too many websites use grids, too many sites use columns, too many sites are “boxy.” Efforts to avoid boxiness have been around since 1995; while occasionally successful, they have most often produced aesthetically wretched and needlessly unusable designs.
The experienced web designer, like the talented newspaper art director, accepts that many projects she works on will have headers and columns and footers. Her job is not to whine about emerging commonalities but to use them to create pages that are distinctive, natural, brand-appropriate, subtly memorable, and quietly but unmistakably engaging.
(Thanks Melissa!)
I am sick of hearing people say that HTML sites need to be more “free flowing” and that they are just “boxes” and “grids” which are “boring”.
A recent article by Jeffery Zeldman compared web design to architecture. There are certain fundamentals in place that work – things that don’t change. A web designer who complains about grids and boxes is like an architect who complains about gravity.
This is an excerpt from an article by Jeffery Zeldman on A List Apart. Read the full article here.
(Thanks Melissa!)