Just received the sample spreads of the latest (August) Desktop Magazine. BittenByDesign appears as a source in one of the articles.

Check out the link to the spread here: Desktop magazine spread

It was my opinion of some of the things that should have been in my Graphic Design course that would of helped me when I started work.

Bitten By Design is a freelance graphic design and web design business located in Sydney Australia, supplying quality digital service globally. Founded in late 2006, to meet an increased client demand.

Clients have included large corporations, small businesses right down to individuals. Based in Sydney Australia, but no distance is too far, as tele-commuting has shortened the travel time to the length of time it takes to make a phonecall.

Bitten By Design believes in serving all client needs as promptly as possible. Projects have ranged from Point of Sale, Packaging, Software Icons, Flyers, Corporate Identity, Full website design, Website Administration and updating, HTML emails, Web Banners and Ad tiles to name but a few.

The time has come to officially announce that I will not be adding stylesheet support for IE6 into the websites I am designing. Basically it comes down to offering the best user experience for the visitors to a site whilst working within the project budget limitations. I would much rather spend the difference on additional testing and further features over creating an additional stylesheet for a browser that is no longer supported by it’s creator. Most designers and developers have already joined the IE6 is dead movement but after having just generated two complex ecommerce websites to fit within a clients criteria of being fully compliant in all browsers (right back to the one they are still using), I believe any site user is better served with a more considered design that looks to future browsing developments in the HTML standards rather than attempt to force a band-aid solution for older browsers that are no longer compliant or supported by their developers.

Don’t get me wrong I can build sites that appear as close as possible in IE6 to other browsers but it will be an additional cost and an option that I will suggest is not the best expenditure of the project budget when we could be looking at an HTML email template being designed in addition to the website instead, or even the balance of funds going toward a targetted adwords campaign promoting the website itself upon launch.

I am sure it won’t be long before I am announcing the same thing for IE7!