Yes, it’s both an interesting and exciting moment; handing designs over to someone and waiting for them to view, judge and critique it, but it’s also a little like having Regis fly out of your closet as your alarm clock goes off – it would scare the hell out of you if you weren’t adequately prepared. See, what in your head may be functional, stylish or just plain cool may be totally be a Spiderman III moment for them. If it is, it’s redesign-or-tweakin’ time.

In the category of ‘Interesting Self Promotion’ The Poetic Prophet drops some science on design and coding. I can live without the AOL browser reference but he nails everything else…

In just a brief one-twentieth of a second people make aesthetic judgments that influence the rest of their experience with an internet site.

Do you have to sacrifice all of the creative and artistic elements of your web site to rank in the search engines?