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Chapter 1: aesthNETics
Figure 1-1
The second team also completes the initial data conversion but, in preparing for their presentation
proposal, they spend time coming up with an aesthetically and intuitive layout that they hope will please
the project management team. They decide to come up with custom graphics using Adobe PhotoShop.
They decide to create custom graphing components using the
System.Drawing namespace. They pay
close attention to the color scheme of the site and make an attempt to have everything flow together.
They do not spend the time at this point working on the automatic data upload piece. They present the
example in Figure 1-2.
Figure 1-2
Which of these projects do you think, in a real-world situation, would win the nod from management?
Don’t misunderstand; the presentation layer is not the only important component of a web project. In the
above example, if it turned out that the second team was assigned this project but, soon after starting,
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