I think part of the issue is that some people want to produce material which can be easily translated across mediums. Thus many of the more successful webcomics are designed to also be suitable for print, and often this has been the key to their success. Even I, from the very beginning, made sure that all of my pages were 300 dpi, even though this is quite unnecessary for a webcomic.
In terms of website design, I think the reason that so many sites lean towards a newspaper format is because it actually works really well. Newsprint is over a century old and has had plenty of time to establish effective templates, and the web isn't all that different. Sure, we're all using a landscape format, but there are very few webpages which actually fit into a single screen without any scrolling required. Computer users are much more used to vertical scrolling than horizontal, so unless a website only has 800x600 pixels worth of information to convey, it seems unavoidable that it's going to end up tall and thin.
Oh, and hello! Thanks for the plug, and for the interview, I had a great time.
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Date: 2006-10-27 08:59 am (UTC)In terms of website design, I think the reason that so many sites lean towards a newspaper format is because it actually works really well. Newsprint is over a century old and has had plenty of time to establish effective templates, and the web isn't all that different. Sure, we're all using a landscape format, but there are very few webpages which actually fit into a single screen without any scrolling required. Computer users are much more used to vertical scrolling than horizontal, so unless a website only has 800x600 pixels worth of information to convey, it seems unavoidable that it's going to end up tall and thin.
Oh, and hello! Thanks for the plug, and for the interview, I had a great time.