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by Veerle Pieters Pro Jan 29, 2010
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  1. Pro Avatar-me-short-hair-256x256 Veerle Pieters

    This is what happens when the client suddenly decides to change the terms of the search result categories into words with double amount of characters as initially designed. I'm trying to figure out how to resolve this problem in a decent way. : : ::Sigh:: : :

    over 2 years ago

  2. Pro Si-tn Shaun Inman

    Have you considered Kanji? ;)

    over 2 years ago

  3. Pro Avatar-me-short-hair-256x256 Veerle Pieters

    Ha! :) Well I've changed the words, because it's possible to use shorter words here. It's a construction company web site, so no need to say 'land to build on', just say 'land', people will know it's to build your house on... Plus, the icons already help you too. So that's my suggestion to the client right now.

    over 2 years ago

  4. Pixelavatar_large_16_color Chris Wallace!

    A good web designer would have anticipated each and every potential change by a client and built the website in such a way that it would never break or look bad as a result of a client's all-knowing, all-powerful decision-making abilities.

    over 2 years ago

  5. Jasonrobb Jason Robb

    @Chris: By that ideal, there are no good web designers. But some come closer than others.

    Edit:
    Unless you're being sarcastic... touché in that case.

    over 2 years ago

  6. Davatar-600 Dave Simon

    @Jason - pretty sure Chris has tongue fully embedded in cheek. :)

    @Veerle - I think we all feel your pain!

    over 2 years ago

  7. Pro Avatar-me-short-hair-256x256 Veerle Pieters

    @Chris Wallace I understand what you are saying, but that doesn't hold for every situation I'm afraid. I mean you need to be realistic. I wish you could just see the entire page. Then you would understand my situation here as there really is no other way to do this. What you are suggesting would be to place the filters vertically, because that would be the only flexible way. Doing that however, would not only make it ugly and unbalanced, it would also make it totally confusing for the user. It will not make sense to the user that these are filters to sort the results because it's visually unclear for them (because of the vertical order, it looks illogic).

    I was also thinking of using icons only, but it would not be clear enough to the user 'what is what'. I cons alone don't explain things in this situation. So this is also no good solution.

    over 2 years ago

  8. Pixelavatar_large_16_color Chris Wallace!

    @Veerle I apologize, I was being completely sarcastic in my previous comment. I completely agree with you.

    over 2 years ago

  9. Pro Ba_avatar Kirk Peterson

    It's amazing how much unplanned copy writing you have to undertake during the design process sometimes just to keep forward momentum

    over 2 years ago

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