Re:Standards (Score 1)

Employing design standards at this stage of the development of the modern day internet could, or rather would stunt the development of the medium. Jakob Neilson is thought of by many members of the design and development community, to be way off track. The real conflict is that in a search for freedom...(the one you speak of is freedom of information), neglect is paid to extending the same freedom to everything else. Design, is only one thing. Telling people to conform to design standards, especially now, is like telling any community to conform to certain ways of thinking. Freedom to change must be maintained else cease to progress. The modern internet has just begun to develop. Should we rest and except that we have reached a level where no more can be achieved through this new medium. New media thinking by mass culture has just begun and... until people... all people have access to participate, standards are bollocks. Allow sites with poor navigation be the ones that aren't used and soon expire. It's Darwinism dudes. Good design can come in many forms. People and time are the judges. You want to know what designers are thinking you can visit k10k.net... or dreamless.org As far as copying the layout of a site is concerned. Life sucks like that sometimes. And as you keep making new things you get better at making stuff while some person never advances past using tracing paper over his favorite comics. Boo - hoo.