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Internet Design, circa 1996
mr.Curmudgeon:
Well, I think we're comparing apples to oranges. A McDonald's website was never going to be the pinnacle of graphic design.
patrickl:
I also tried the (dutch) Coca-Cola site and it's utterly useless. All they do is show that daft "Happyness Factory movie". At least the McDonalds site contains some information that you can find after you search long enough.
The Lego site looks pretty good.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on January 27, 2008, 09:48:15 pm ---Well, I think we're comparing apples to oranges. A McDonald's website was never going to be the pinnacle of graphic design.
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And really, McDonalds' site is all about flash over substance anyway. Who really goes to McDonalds.com looking for functionality? You aren't going to order food there. People who are that interested in McDonalds aren't looking up nutrition info. I don't see a path to a corporate portal for vendors or employees.
mr.Curmudgeon:
Unfortunately, even in 2008, most brick and mortar companies still view their web presence as little more than glorified brochure-ware. It's one of the reasons I moved back to print design for a few years before moving out of the industry entirely.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on January 28, 2008, 11:38:22 am ---Unfortunately, even in 2008, most brick and mortar companies still view their web presence as little more than glorified brochure-ware. It's one of the reasons I moved back to print design for a few years before moving out of the industry entirely.
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Depends on the industry... trust me, retail chains have enough WAN backbone now that they'd completely fall apart if they had to go back to human methods. It would probably happen in 48 hours, too. The level of web leverage getting put into place now is astounding. There is not a lot of front end design to it - from that point of view it's pretty basic. It is all function over form.
Sadly this often means people like me have to live portions of their lives as slaves to corporate app SLA timeframes. Drives me nuts sometimes.
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