About the design of my sites :

I occasionally get some note from someone fancying themselves to either be
a connoisseur of website design, or someone professing to a "designer" who
finds fault with my website design. I have been building websites for several
years, and went through phases such as use of Shockwave, javascript,
rollover images, drop menus (for some reason, the nuts who think they
know what a website should be "designed" as, love scripts that do drop
menus or other such nonsense), and a plethora of other such design tricks.

What I ultimately decided was that content was king, and these "design"
elements became quite trite and tiresome to me. Most of the time, websites
designed in this way by these "website designers" are an infantile attempt
at saying "Look at me, aren't I clever?"

Their ideas of design are about as useful as putting a row of rhinestones
around the frame of the Mona Lisa to "jazz it up".

Less is more. My design guiding principle is the "tabula rasa" or scraped
clean, white slate. Words have more impact when the reader has a chance
to focus on them, and not little stars trailing your cursor across the page.
When I go to a site, I want information, not some script kiddie who
thinks it is just so cool to have a "LOADING.." making me wait for some
lame shockwave crap.

I like a plain white background, perhaps an image or two, and copy
(publishing industry jargon for the written text, content) that is
clear to read, in a font and typeface which is readable and attractive.

The hilarious thing is that the people who write me to comment on
their ways to "improve" my websites, if you type their name in Google,
usually do not appear, or certainly, do not stand out.

The truth is, folks with real web design businesses (one of my patients
has an excellent web design business) are too busy to be scouring the
net to drum up business by contacting website owners and criticizing
their sites.

My sites are designed and executed by me, copyrighted by me,
and they are EXACTLY as they are meant to be. Whether they
are done in simple HTML code or in a content management system
like Joomla , or Mambo or PhP NUKE, they appear exactly as I want
them to appear (with the exception of the occasional site hacking
which occurs to most sites from time to time).

Thanks for reading this.

~Dr. John Raymond Baker, BS,DC