Seth Godin is cool. I like that guy, but he has a “way” with words sometimes… and I think he does it on purpose.
Today’s post by Seth about “The First Question every Web Designer Must Ask” is a little odd.
Seth asks:
“Do you want the people visiting this site to notice it?”
The answer is yes. This applies to everyone, not just artists, musicians, and web 2.0 companies. Seth would say that for “everyone else” it’s actually no.
“Everyone else” is a lot of people. It’s probably 90% (if not more) of the world wide web.
What’s more interesting is that he suggests that the purpose of a website is to “tell a story” and I’ll agree with that, but either I have a much more holistic approach to storytelling or something else because I think part of the overall story is the actual look and feel of the site.
Sometimes, the design of the site has much more “effect” in terms of the overall picture, story, and narrative than the content (at times).
I think your blog and your website design has as much to say about who you are as a person, a business, an organization, as it does the written copy.
Semantics? Perhaps. Not so sure this time. I think Seth Godin is just wrong. Maybe it’s just because I am “kinda” a web designer and developer (some might say I’m not). I could be wrong. I’ve been wrong before.
But I like you anyway Seth. I hope you like me too.