Web-Design
Blog Entry: Web-Design
Blog Entry: Web-Design
A few days ago when I got back into blogging I mentioned I had another life blog that I had not yet typed. This is it. I want to talk about the differences between personal and business design and why I prefer the first. I don't just mean simple because the first is mine to do as I please and the second is just a job, but comparing them from the same perspective of a job, I prefer to work for clients making personal or fansites. Obviously fansites are not official but there is nothing to prevent people from commissioning a little help since it relates to the webdesign or graphic itself rather than something related to the copyright. But for the sake of simplicity, let's just talk about personal sites.
Smaller commission are more common in personals, little elements to be added, while business tends to look for a package deal with one designer. This can get tiring and I prefer to do smaller jobs for different people, since that's a change of pace each time to keep it interesting. I also really like the energy and creativity of personal sites, while business request to be mostly cookie cutter. They want to beat their competition by being like them, a contradiction since if they achieve their goal it would a draw. It's all too serious and plain and boring.
With personals people then to get creative and want to make the page beautiful rather than simple functional. What makes such pages different from social network profiles is the design, so that becomes the focus. On business pages the design is second to the data and I don't enjoy data management in the least, I enjoy graphic design. The cheerful atmosphere, the creative freedom, the focus on making the page look amazing, the welcome to special effects and new CSS, that's why I prefer personals.
You're designing for show, not just for sales. You're designing for people who want to see a website, rather than just find a product, for people who are there for amusement and enjoy exploring a site. The design doesn't have to step back to let the product shine because the design is the product. More and more I've noticed that business design is more about data, it bores me. I like making web pages do cool stuff, not simply display information, but showcase themselves.
I didn't used to like certain site like Tumblr, because it felt like just another profile, no absolute freedom of design, so no interest from me. I can at least appreciate what it does allow, at least you can make some edits and I want that personalized Internet to return. The place where no one's pages look alike. Not a profile, but a personal page, not your data in a framed logo of your server, but and actual page, even if the logo is inevitable in a small corner. That Internet would be so much more interesting than the network profile Internet.
Some might know where I'm coming from and other may know only the version of the Internet that is there today, but I think it's changing, rebooting itself to return the good things that fell away. I didn't used to like tumblr and I still don't use it, but I'm glad for it, I'm glad for the freedom that it allows. Everyone had to start somewhere, may that lead to more people seeking absolute freedom of design.
This seemed more organized in my head, but the blog is all over the place. Oh well, life blogs are like that.
Smaller commission are more common in personals, little elements to be added, while business tends to look for a package deal with one designer. This can get tiring and I prefer to do smaller jobs for different people, since that's a change of pace each time to keep it interesting. I also really like the energy and creativity of personal sites, while business request to be mostly cookie cutter. They want to beat their competition by being like them, a contradiction since if they achieve their goal it would a draw. It's all too serious and plain and boring.
With personals people then to get creative and want to make the page beautiful rather than simple functional. What makes such pages different from social network profiles is the design, so that becomes the focus. On business pages the design is second to the data and I don't enjoy data management in the least, I enjoy graphic design. The cheerful atmosphere, the creative freedom, the focus on making the page look amazing, the welcome to special effects and new CSS, that's why I prefer personals.
You're designing for show, not just for sales. You're designing for people who want to see a website, rather than just find a product, for people who are there for amusement and enjoy exploring a site. The design doesn't have to step back to let the product shine because the design is the product. More and more I've noticed that business design is more about data, it bores me. I like making web pages do cool stuff, not simply display information, but showcase themselves.
I didn't used to like certain site like Tumblr, because it felt like just another profile, no absolute freedom of design, so no interest from me. I can at least appreciate what it does allow, at least you can make some edits and I want that personalized Internet to return. The place where no one's pages look alike. Not a profile, but a personal page, not your data in a framed logo of your server, but and actual page, even if the logo is inevitable in a small corner. That Internet would be so much more interesting than the network profile Internet.
Some might know where I'm coming from and other may know only the version of the Internet that is there today, but I think it's changing, rebooting itself to return the good things that fell away. I didn't used to like tumblr and I still don't use it, but I'm glad for it, I'm glad for the freedom that it allows. Everyone had to start somewhere, may that lead to more people seeking absolute freedom of design.
This seemed more organized in my head, but the blog is all over the place. Oh well, life blogs are like that.