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How important is design?
Posted by designbycha • 1/20/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: design
We live in a spoiled country. Our needs are more then met, so we look for luxuries. Design is more luxury then necessity. Take pc and mac. take the popularity of certain brands compared to other. it's all about design. It's the same thing for blogs. Design is my passion. how important is design for you guys? www.designbycha.com/
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What country are you on about? -
usa
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That explains a lot
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Design is a beautiful thing. I have a minor fetish for architecture. However, design and marketing are two separate matters, and i'm not as interested in design just for the sake of having something new to market. -
i think i started the thread with some confusion. my fault cause i can't explain that well. english is not first language for me. anyway. i believe that design can make a product better. it beautifies thing, buildings, space, etc. makes life more pleasant. it's also a form of art. freeatlast, i too have love architecture.
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Design is everywhere, isn't each person designed for another. Do dog owners look like their dogs through design?
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that is heavy question. i can see why your sons have such deep questions. they are like their dad.
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i love designs n love 2 make them too -
sometimes design if over rated. but sometimes, i look at something and the design makes me weep. wait....did i just say that out loud?-
Aye barbie has that effect
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barbie? who? i thought i said to keep that on the downlow chris
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lol, 300,000 youtube users would disagree
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Will you visit a blank page or a colored page? -
You can have the prettiest design around but if your content sucks it doesn't bode well for repeat visits. -
mikster- i beg to differ. take some of the hottest hollywood actresses. jessica alba, paris hilton, both cannot act, but i can't stop watching their videos. i watch it over and over and over
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lol...You can't even begin to tell me you're watching them for their acting/singing abilities. Eye candy is a different category.
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bloggernoob - haha...i saw the barbie on youtube....i like it ...dirty danceing is my favorite...^^
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milster- oops....how did you konw i have to working on more about my blog content ^^
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naren - yea, me too...i love to make them too. a lot of times...my ideas are already out there...-.- i always told my friends that they stole my ideas...
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Ideal design helps a viewer want to read and navigate a site. Bad design gets in the way. -
Design is everything in blogging! Lucky I had some great advisors to help me:
www.offendedblogger.com -
I like to see designs that indicate something of the blogger's personality. I like blogs with a bit of color, with easily readable text, but the design isn't too "busy".
However, a well-written blog can overcome a boring, blah minimalist stock design.
I've not got the skills to design my own templates, but I can alter an existing design by slapping on an interesting header image at top that shows a bit of my personality. And I've got a blogging friend with more skills who can help me when I get stuck.
A couple of big turnoffs for me are light backgrounds with extremely faint text -- a white background with very faint yellow text, for example. Another offender is a dark background with text that is only slightly lighter -- medium blue text on a dark blue background. It's all about contrast.
This isn't a design issue, per se, but a blog full of misspelling and "teen talk" (ur for your, gr8 for great, etc) doesn't inspire repeat visits from me,either. I don't mind unintentional typos, however, as long as they don't dominate the writing.
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