> I must say I am surprised at how many of us like/dislike the same items,
> and I don't think it is because we are all programmers. Books basically
> look all the same because there is good design, and bad design. Web
> pages are too new and the technology changing too quickly for a standard
> design to become popular, but I think eventually many of those _bad_ web
> pages will be replace with good ones.
>
> In fact, most large companies have terrible web sites, especially the
> home page for the site.
I will bolster my argument with two examples:
In the 1960's, typesetting in a variety of fonts became easier as
lithography became more popular than the manual typesetting process.
Many publications used very strange layouts as they tried the new
possibilities, but eventually returned to good typesetting standards.
Same thing happened in the 1960's with the advent of new fabrics and new
methods for dying fabrics.
Second, everyone has seen the Mac-created documents of the 1980's. The
use of many typefaces made the documents look more like ransom notes.
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