Hi Jerrald,
Since we will be moving to Sacramento soon, I have been back studying the subjects of Quality/Zero Punch/Customer Satisfaction/Warranty again, in preparation for job interviews. Anyway, I came across this and thought you might find it interesting…
To begin with, Pacific West is a vertical operator that specializes in a niche market: multi-family housing. This includes both attached homes and apartments. This precise area of focus allows us to concentrate every bit of effort on establishing consistency and continuity, which, in turn, allows us to effectively conduct business in a field that demands meticulous execution.
Our goal is nothing short of perfecting multi-family development. We have taken giant steps toward that perfection through standardization. Just as in modern manufacturing, we have created a system that relies on using proven, familiar techniques and materials. By using the same subcontractors, the same architects and engineers, the same materials, and the same suppliers – all of whom specialize in multi-family building — we are able to use the same design assemblies (whenever applicable) job after job after job. This familiarity with the process is the best possible way to eliminate mistakes…
http://www.pacificwest.net/risk/HTML%20Files/intro.html
What do you think?
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>> What do you think?
I hope they do better at building than they do at web design. Any outfit that puts large blocks of small, white text on gray background hasn't yet found the best possible way to eliminate mistakes.
It looks gray to you? It is orange on my computer.
I just thought it had some interesting information that Jerrald might be interested in reading.
>> It looks gray to you? It is orange on my computer.Part of it is orange on my computer, too, just not the part that needed to be orange so I could read that paragraph.
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Hi Jerrald,
Since we will be moving to Sacramento soon, I have been back studying the subjects of Quality/Zero Punch/Customer Satisfaction/Warranty again, in preparation for job interviews. Anyway, I came across this and thought you might find it interesting..."
Great link Darcy thanks a lot for calling that to my attention. You seem to be moving around a lot. I tried to email you last week to tell you I had a new version of my estimating program out as a preview beta and the e-mail bounced back to me as being undeliverable. Did you change that too?
Uncle Dunc "I hope they do better at building than they do at web design. Any outfit that puts large blocks of small, white text on gray background hasn't yet found the best possible way to eliminate mistakes."
I had no problem reading the text on that web site at all. The background is orange not gray so the problem has to be something going on on your end Uncle Dunc. How do you have your monitor set up? I don't think web designers today should necessarily design and plan web content for the .001% of the public that surf in black and white. It would make a very boring experience for the rest of us.
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I emailed you so you can get my new addy.
I also found it interesting that PacWest photographs every single detail of every single unit.
Do you know anything about the Microcraft or Primavera that they mention?
Thanks, I'll check out the new version of you estimating software.
darcy
>> The background is orange not gray ...Thanks for the screen shot. I see the same orange background in my browser, but it is only behind a few elements, such as the header and the "An Introduction" sub-head. The rest of the page is gray. And you're right, the white on orange is not as bad as the white on gray I complained about. >> ... so the problem has to be something going on on your end Uncle Dunc.Yes, my browser is obsolete. Probably more than five years old, now.>> I don't think web designers today should necessarily design and plan web content for
>> the .001% of the public that surf in black and white.It depends on the goal. If they are trying to inform or persuade as many readers as possible, reading the text should be as easy as possible for as many of those potential readers as possible. If the goal is to display the fine artistic sensibilities of the page designer, then I suppose readability can assigned a lower priority.White on orange is harder to read than black on white, or black on gray, or even orange on white. And specifying a small font doesn't help, either, especially since the people who are looking for someone to build multi-family housing are probably closer to 50 years old than 20.Also, all else being equal, serif typefaces are easier to read than sans-serif, becaue the serifs give more visual clues for distinguishing between letters. For instance, it is very easy in many sans-serif faces to confuse the capital I and the lower case L. Much less likely in a serif face. But the designer of this page chose sans-serif faces exclusively.Color is good. A variety of typefaces and sizes is good, to signal that different pieces of text on the page have different functions. But the whole point of this page, presumably, is to invite the reader to read the introduction, and the page designer made a number of design decisions that work against that whole point.>> It would make a very boring experience for the rest of us.Boring is way underrated. :)