Comments on: Who Cares How Pretty Web Sites Are? http://bokardo.com/archives/pretty_web_sites/ Interface Design & UX by Joshua Porter Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:28:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Ryskamp http://bokardo.com/archives/pretty_web_sites/#comment-167 Bob Ryskamp Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://bokardocom.siteprotect.net/wordpress/?p=11#comment-167 For what it's worth, I subscribed to your site based on the stylish black-and-white previous design, and nearly unsubscribed when it changed (a knee-jerk reaction quickly squashed). So there's some value to style..."design", of course, pervades everything from the images to the database code. If you are going to spend time designing the code, you owe it to the site to spend time designing the layout--you wouldn't raise your child with the best manners and a top-notch education and send him out into the business world wearing a burlap sack... For what it’s worth, I subscribed to your site based on the stylish black-and-white previous design, and nearly unsubscribed when it changed (a knee-jerk reaction quickly squashed).

So there’s some value to style…”design”, of course, pervades everything from the images to the database code. If you are going to spend time designing the code, you owe it to the site to spend time designing the layout–you wouldn’t raise your child with the best manners and a top-notch education and send him out into the business world wearing a burlap sack…

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