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Talk:Web and print layouts compared
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Having the images larger and adding extra skins was a great move. This article is looking better already :-)
--Ruben (talk) 21:27, May 3, 2008 (AKDT)
Sparx experience
This page explains and demonstrates the differences between print and web design quite well.
My story... after doing art and print design for over 10 years, in the late '90s I set out to do web design. Actually, I learned to hard code basic HTML in a few weeks in order to demonstrate that I knew how for a job interview. I didn't get the job, but it set me on the path to learning more web design.
It drove me nuts at first that stuff didn't stay where I put it on the page! So, I designed my first few sites with loads of graphics - even making the text into graphic files so it would stay put. The sites turned out looking nice, but they loaded slow and were a pain in the ass to maintain. (Imagine using Photoshop on a Mac II si with 16 MB of RAM and a 80 MB hard drive. I could wash the dishes while waiting for something to render on-screen!)
I learned, though, that web sites worked better (and my work load was lighter) if I designed with the notion in that things shift with various browsers and systems, and just placed elements in relative position to one another. HTML tables came in handy.
Then along came CSS, then wikis... I'm still learning and don't intend to stop learning.
Recently I've found that things have turned around a bit. At work I have advertisers who want their print ads to look like their web pages! In fact I got into an argument with an advertiser this week because she just wasn't understanding that the lovely green she had used in her "camera ready" ad would turn to a dark puke green in the CMYK print space. Furthermore she was using Photoshop Elements which doesn't do CMYK color space which we need for print, she made the ad 72 ppi (we need 230 ppi for our 85 line screen) and used fonts that we don't have. (BTW: After an awful phone conversation in which we both hung up on one another at the same time, I called her back when I cooled down and asked, "Can we just start all over?" and we worked it out.)
Thanks for putting the page together, Ruben. sparx (talk) 18:04, May 4, 2008 (AKDT)
