Showcase Of Web Design In Israel
What’s Unique About Israeli Web Design?
Here are some other issues that designers face here (and, I imagine, in most places outside the US, Canada and Western Europe):
- Websites must work in legacy versions of IE (though IE6 is finally almost out). Israeli business owners emphasize this more than getting their websites to work in Safari or Firefox.
- There is a strong liking for Flash-based designs… it must be a cultural thing.
- Little value is given to Web designers (and those in related fields, such as copywriting — although marketers and SEO people seem to being doing okay), and many designers are not taking back their profession.
- Clients care more about cost than usability and standards.
- CSS-based designs are not standard, and many of the people responsible for hiring are not aware of it.
- Big agencies are usually asked to make conventional designs, and although they do quite impressive branding work, the websites they turn out are behind the times. Because they are launched by such big companies, the websites succeed “in spite of themselves,” leading many to believe that this is the formula for wildly successful websites: for Agency X to do our website the way they did for Company Y.
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