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Website design continues to dominate my life. Looking at other designers' websites today and browsing through other professional websites, I'm leaning more towards using white as my background instead of black. I think it would make my website look a little less heavy and maybe a tad more sophisticated. As in all things design, there are different opinions for what a good website should look like but Josiah Cole, a professional webmaster, there are a 19 things website designers should not do. Check them out at http://www.josiahcole.com/2007/02/14/a-webmasters-19-commandments/

One of the not-to-dos pertinent to print designers was this;

"This one is going to get me in trouble. If you are a print designer, and “do websites on the side”, STOP DOING websites and providing “advice” to your print clients about web design. Print design to web design is like designing an ad for a race car, and actually building and racing that race car. Don’t get me wrong, print is great and all, you make pretty pictures and wonderful messages crafted with great copy, but when it comes down to it, it’s still just a picture. People cannot buy the product with a print ad (yet), they can’t communicate with your business through a print ad. I can already here the grumbling coming from the print world, and look, it’s not that I don’t see a purpose for print advertising, just stick to print and don’t nose you’re way into a medium which you do not know and wouldn’t understand (same goes for general “geeks” who do websites ‘on the side’)"

I always thought it would be relatively easy, once you learned how to do it, to do both print and online design. I may be wrong.