The Wow Factor

17 January 2004

Good morning. Good coffee.

Sometime in 2004 I’m going to learn how CSS and PHP and standards and well-formed and valid and all of the other ”buzzwords” surrounding web design fit together.

For now, I think I’m supposed to be wowed by this. Click around on the links and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Now visualize that kind of technology applied to an entire web site. Ignorance of what it took to acoomplish it is the only thing stopping me from being wowed. Here’s the explanation page.

Here’s what I think you’re looking at. I think you’re looking at something that would make you think you’re seeing a photograph. Instead, I think you’re seeing a web page that was created using CSS and XHMTL.

As an executive who is very unlikely to ever be able to apply this stuff myself, I’m betting that the ”takeaway message” is, ”Be aware and insist on this sort of flexibility for every future web site you influence!” [originally discovered at redemption through standards]

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  1. susan b.    17 January 2004, 11:35    #