Web Design by Bill Gates


Is Bill Gates doing your Web Design?

Funny question you may think, however it’s a real question for a Web Design Workshop. Browser Defaults decide on how we see web pages unless the Web Designer gets in control of all the elements on display.

Browser defaults concern colors, language, fonts and more. What ever the style sheet of our site does not handle, the browser will render with default settings. Most people never change browser defaults.

Internet Explorer and Firefox

My Internet Explorer is set to default font Times New Roman, while my Firefox is on Verdana. Here is the result looking at the same page in the two browsers.

Internet Explorer with Times New Roman Default Font

IE with Times New Roman

IE with Times New Roman

Firefox with Verdana Default Font

Firefox with Verdana

Firefox with Verdana

The result is visibly different.

Web Design Fonts

The above example shows in an impressive way that whatever the Web designer leaves to coincidence, Bill Gates and friends (respectively the browser) will take care of.

You could conclude that in fact you don’t need web design. True and False.

True in as much as the browser will compensate for your imperfection and false in as much as whatever you don’t define in your design, you leave Bill Gates and friends to take care of… their way and not your way.

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Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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2 Comments

  1. Posted September 16, 2009 at 10:17 am | Permalink

    Very brilliant all this. . . if one thinks about it!

  2. Posted September 16, 2009 at 10:19 am | Permalink

    It’s brilliant the way you implement it!

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