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Originally Posted by Julie Gerleman

I know what you mean about feeling like you can't win. That's my least favorite part of being a web developer. You make one change after 10 people have been complaining about something and afterward, most of those 10 are marginally happy but another brand new set of 20 are now noisily unhappy with the change.

By the way, this site could be done up completely in violent shades of fuschia and I'd still be here as much as I could. Because it really is that good. :)

Thanks, Julie. As you know, there are so many variables that can change how someone sees a web site that it is quite a challenge to a web designer.

Even when I use a black background, I never use pure white text.

And, animation / Flash - I think a lot of that is too busy and distracting for elegant artwork. The attention goes on the animation instead of the work.

Firefox reading problems

Hi Monique,

I must admit that I am using Firefox, and couldn't see the pictures on your website.

It is soo hard to make a website that everybody, with every software, can read as we want them to read it.

I happen to live now in a place where the internet connection can be achieved only with a 64 kb modem (!!!), and I would like to give a little advice to other artists, concerning websites : please try to put pictures as light as possible (without, of course, dimishing their quality) so any computer with a modem connection can download them in a fair amount of time (or people won't give a second look to your website before a certain time). This advice goes for my own websites too, I have to work on them now!

Cheers,
Karine