10 Simple Rules for a happy web-editor
1. Lack of forethought on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
2. Front ends do not magically appear, regardless of how many months you've spent on a back-end.
3. "knock something out fast" =/= a design strategy that will end in usability.
4. A quick fix is rarely quick or a fix.
5. The "final little pixel alignment" will take as long as the whole rest of the design process put together.
- 5a. And still not work in Safari
- 5b. No, we cannot just assume everybody uses IE
- 5c. Especially if it's a wap site.
6. "It looks kinda weird" does not constitute feedback
- 6a. "Could we try something a bit different" doesn't either.
- 6b. And who the hell is "we"?
7. Learn the power of screenshots, and a large red pen, "that thing of the left doesn't line up with the other thing on the right" doesn't help anybody.
8. No, it would not be cool if it blinked/scrolled/made noise
- 8a. Not even on a wap site.
9. WAP is slow and small. Get over it.
10. Content does not come to me in a dream, you want the rainfall in Samoa on the site, you'll need to actually tell me it.
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