On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Rick Hobson wrote:
> Providing a web site meets the above criteria (there may be others) and is
> identifiable as belonging to an institution (a simple crest perhaps) does
> the precise appearance really matter?
This is all we ask for - for depts to use a banner on their welcome page,
and intro pages for grad and undergrad prospective students. They are free
to design the rest of the page how they like. But people are still
unhappy with it.
How would you view the quality of a journal where every article is set in
a different typeface, with different margins, headings, and perhaps
without the author's name even visible?
Depts in the same institution aren't in competition with each other for
users and the need to 'all look different' comes more IMO from internal
people comparing their pages with other depts.
Kriss
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