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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3066338, member: 19463&quot;]Web design is like all arts in that it follows fads or limitations long after the reason has passed. There was a time when most of us had 14.4 dial-up modems and really suffered from images we did not want to see.&nbsp; There was a time that most people looked at web sites on computers and appreciated larger images.&nbsp; There was a time that books were hard to get published so things written in them were assumed to have value. We all have different pet peeves based on where we boarded and where we got off the fad-wagon. </p><p><br /></p><p>The one side of a coin thing bothers me but Coin Talk and eBay both do their best to discourage rectangular images.&nbsp; How many of us show coin avatars with both sides of the coin?&nbsp; Must out avatars be square images or could we make a vertical rectangular image that would fill some of that blank space rather than making such an image reduced to half size to be contained in the square?&nbsp; On eBay, posting one image of one side of a coin gets you twice as large a view of the item for sale as posting a two sided coin.&nbsp; Many people do not care what the reverse is on the coin anyway since they only collect portraits.&nbsp; Web design has to consider all these things and it is a lot cheaper to buy a canned package rather than to hire someone who could make a custom design that considered everything. In the 1980&#039;s I was tasked to work with a team from IBM who was writing software for my employer.&nbsp; I never talked to programmers but to a special breed of translators who were human enough to talk to customers and also to the super geeky guys who actually did the coding.&nbsp; We ended up with exactly what we wanted which did not become obsolete until almost as long a time had passed as it took to write the software.&nbsp; Those were the old days when obsolescence time was measured in months rather than seconds.&nbsp; Now books are obsolete before the ink dries.&nbsp; Software fares little better.&nbsp; Experts?&nbsp; Obsolete term.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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