Complacency with simplicity...

I envy those of you who want simplicity...

Who live, work, and marinate in all that is simplicity...

I'm not -me- unless I'm kicking shit up a notch, it's what I do.

The stress is worse.  The self expectations are worse than those of others.

Made a friend a site.  It wasn't the greatest, but I thought it was neat... in a thematic way... relevant to the reason it was created.

He wants a simple, plain, easy css/xhtml site and blog.  Which is good.  Simple is good... It's one of those that I was supposed to have learned to appreciate and strive for -- as conflicting as it seems.  I'm talking "All you need is a white page, black text, with standard links... available for everyone, forever...".  Not that color was bad or shunned, but {-- all of this --}  here.. a hell of a lot of work for the purpose of stuff I can do in a simpler fashion.  Complexity isn't bad.  Wanting it isn't bad.  But complacency with simplicity?  That's enviable!

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Gunderson Bee
Don't forget who his audience is. If they like to think in white page, black text, you doing fancy coding may not be better, just more confusing. Simplicity is a masterpiece if the target audience ends up eating it up on a daily basis.

The mea culpa of design ... you are designing for a specific audience. Never forget this. :)
Bouche
I don't. he doesn't really have an audience yet. I was just thinking 'for him' and I asked if he liked along the way... so I continued. It didn't take really long, it was just a prototype. It was still simple, but somewhat small... I figured typical res was still 800/600 and it would make it look ewge. *shrug* it isn't a big loss, but I kind of liked it and what it could have been...

here it is... "This Road"

Don't tease me! I hand coded this bugger and it's a prototype! :D
Gunderson Bee
You hand coded that? Very impressive--I really do like it. Especially "This is the page that says wunderbar."

Me? I'm totally into WYSWYG, 'cause I'm lazy.

I'm so lazy, all I've done so far is one page. A table. An image. that's it.

and my audience is myself. ;) For now.


Bouche
I like it.

many others in my classes did wsywyg but in our major -- it sort fo defeated the purpose of 'the education' (information science).

I had some tableless sites up... old ones. the geocities site might have an old one. Tableless css is a pain in the ass :) These days .. I think the tables issues are no longer issues.... so boo yay!
Bouche
I like it -alot-

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