If you have not done any website design, you are probably not aware of how doggone frustrating it is.
With Television, everyone see's pretty much what the creators want them to see. With the internet, the site someone designs can look totally different for different customers, and you, the designer, have no idea what your customers are seeing.
For instance, I use two browsers, Safari and Firefox. My website looks slightly different with both browsers. Which one should i design for? What about the browsers that i dont use?
I use a Mac. When I look at my website on the mac, the fonts look good, the layout looks good. Looks good. Then I switch over to my WindowsXP computer and the fonts look terrible. Everything looks kind of jagged and lousy. Looks bad. Which system should i design for?
Then you have color. I work with two monitors: the one on my laptop and an expensive LCD on my desktop. Colors on these tow monitors are very different. Which shade of purple do i use? One shade looks good on the desktop but too dark and too blue on my laptop. Which screen are my readers using? Which color should i pick?
What else can be different? Well what desktop resolution are you, the reader, using? Is it 1024x768 or 1600x1200? Depending on the resolution, how big should the fonts to be to be most attractive and most readable?
The questions and the variations go on and on and on. Computers let us do some amazing things but they are also very frustrating to use.
