a new box for design?
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- juicysauce
i'm reading Eric Meyer on CSS and enjoying it very much. it's a great book, and I'm excited about abandoning tables forever.
but i'm bothered by a creeping suspicion that if we're not careful (as designers), we'll end up inside a box, albeit a highly accessible, well-formed box.
when you go to a site that is standards-compliant and uses all the proper CSS conventions, you can feel it, can't you? there are boxes everywhere and the page is typically flooded with Arial or Verdana or the slightly vogue Georgia. yes, it's clean, but it's all starting to feel a little homogenized.
maybe i just haven't seen enough cool shit yet. squidfingers.com, for example, don't feel too CSSish. are there more sites like this?
- vena0
you're blaming the design choices of a handful of unimaginative people on a markup language?
oh, flash is 99% bad too.
- sp0
:)
- wo0
I am still fighting to get out of this box I have to sit it.
To hell with cubicles.
- juicysauce0
no, no... i'm not blaming anyone. i'm simply saying that XHTML/CSS compliance fosters a certain design aesthetic that we need to be aware of.
people like travis at squidfingers have bucked the system, so to speak. i want to find more designers like him and hold them up to myself and others as examples of how to think outside the box. (pun intended.)