Web Design by Bill Gates

September 9, 2009
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by Yorgo Nestoridis

Is Bill Gates doing your Web Design?

Funny ques­tion you may think, how­ever it’s a real ques­tion for a Web Design Work­shop. Browser Defaults decide on how we see web pages unless the Web Designer gets in con­trol of all the ele­ments on display.

Browser defaults con­cern col­ors, lan­guage, fonts and more. What ever the style sheet of our site does not han­dle, the browser will ren­der with default set­tings. Most peo­ple never change browser defaults.

Inter­net Explorer and Firefox

My Inter­net Explorer is set to default font Times New Roman, while my Fire­fox is on Ver­dana. Here is the result look­ing at the same page in the two browsers.

Inter­net Explorer with Times New Roman Default Font

IE with Times New Roman

IE with Times New Roman

Fire­fox with Ver­dana Default Font

Firefox with Verdana

Fire­fox with Verdana

The result is vis­i­bly dif­fer­ent.

Web Design Fonts

The above exam­ple shows in an impres­sive way that what­ever the Web designer leaves to coin­ci­dence, Bill Gates and friends (respec­tively the browser) will take care of.

You could con­clude that in fact you don’t need web design. True and False.

True in as much as the browser will com­pen­sate for your imper­fec­tion and false in as much as what­ever you don’t define in your design, you leave Bill Gates and friends to take care of… their way and not your way.

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Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Mar­ket­ing & Pub­lish­ing, Founder of YORGOO Pub­lish­ing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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