How are Web standards affecting Web design?
CC: Web standards are making web design more minimalistic and more content-focused. This is probably a good thing. DESIGN wb.rw: Designing for the Web is different than any other type of design for any other medium. Why is Web design so dynamically different and has that difference begun to influence other forms of design? CC: The web is different because your final product is going to be rendered all sorts of different ways. With TV or Radio, maybe somebody’s TV is black & white, or maybe their radio is mono, but this doesn’t radically change the composition of the TV shots or the production of the audio recordings. But with the web, there are tons more variables — screen sizes, screen colors, gamma correction or lack thereof, system font-smoothing or lack thereof, connection speeds, processor speeds, different browsers, different operating systems, plug-in availability, system font availability, etc. So you can’t be anal-retentive about the ultimate look of your design. To me, this
