Re: [IBC] OT:Evergreen's site, was In need of bonsai trees/supplies

I wish all web designers would read this -- especially those from
Yahoo!, C-Net, MSN, and other "popular" sites.  Give me a clean,
simple -- even quiet -- site every day over one with dancing
bears, 40 kinds of frames, ActiveX, & Java the Crap.

Thanks, Brent.

Jim Lewis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

>
> I usually don't respond to this type of post, but I would like
to say
> thanks to my defenders and to explain my philosophy about
website design.
>
> There's no doubt about it. My site is primitive. The basic
design of the
> home page is exactly the same as I designed it when I went
online in '96.
> No, there aren't any dancing gifs, banner ads, or frames, but
it loads in a
> fraction of a second on even the slowest of dialups (like
mine). Living in
> the country and watching pages load at 1 to 2 KB per second on
average,
> teaches you things about website design. I have waited a minute
or more for
> a gif to load just so I could push the image button to go
somewhere else in
> a site. I typically have to wait a full minute for any homepage
to load.
> Yes, they are pretty, but 95% of the time I just want
information while
> surfing, not eye candy.
>
> Then there is the stuff that just doesn't work. Memorable are
the screams
> of the spouse when a site loses her order, can't process her
credit card,
> or can't get there from here. At Evergreen you have to write
things down so
> you can fill out an order. My God! how tough the world is this
days. How
> did we ever get along with paper catalogs.
>
> Where it is necessary, I use some of the best techniques
available. Just go
> to the image page and look at how fast the thumbnails load and
the quality
> of the photographs. When graphics are the point of the page, I
spare no
> effort in bringing you the best I can. Otherwise, I could care
less if you
> read text in a gif box to make it look a certain way. I will
just present
> plain text and let your browser interpret it the way YOU want
to see it.
>
> I have had several people offer me help on the website, some
even for free.
> I appreciate those offers, it comes from people who care, but I
just don't
> see that the product is really better than what is already
there. On the
> other hand, I get plenty of compliments from folks on how easy
the site is
> to navigate. So, until nearly the whole world is high speed,
including me,
> it will pretty much stay the same, except to get better and
better from an
> informational standpoint.
>
> Enough said please, back to bonsai.
>
>
> Brent in Northern California
> Evergreen Gardenworks   USDA Zone 8     Sunset Zone 14
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.EvergreenGardenworks.com
>
>
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