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There?susually a reason for someone to make a website. Although there aresome who do it for the sole reason of just doing it, most of us makeit to fulfill a purpose and that's the point of this article.Most new web designers have all these wild ideas on how to design awebsite. That fresh outlook gives the web design world a whole lot ofnew material to work on but that also leave a lot of room formistakes when it comes to the actual application. For one, newdevelopers usually let their mind wonder and have a tendency to overdesign their pages or commit the common mistake of clutter.

Accordingto an San Diego web design firm, Crest Media Inc., one of themost common mistakes that a new developer makes is that they look ata designer's perspective and not through a user's. Yousee, as a designer, you want your website to look good no matter whatand you want to impress the viewer when they lay their eyes on yourpage but a user thinks otherwise. A user is there for your contentand not the insignificant stuff that they have no use for. Thecorrect mind set would be from a web developer's perspective.

Froma developer's perspective, such as the ones in this SanDiego web design firm, one should consider the impact of everyelement in their website. Planning a website before creation makesall the difference in deciding which elements should go into theirwebsite and which ones can be removed to optimize the overall effectof the site. When I say optimize, it's to use only the elementsneeded to deliver the right effect and purpose, and yet still appealto the user. Focusing on the content, lowering the overall page size,maximizing the usable area and designing a user friendly sitestructure are only a few ways to improve the website for yourvisitors to make it load faster and make it much easier for them tofind the content they want to see. If you want to know more aboutwhat focusing on the purpose means, visit and know how it is to make websites the way it should be done.

Savages, 1972: It demands to be first. The plot actually features croquet prominently, as a group of primitive people chance upon a croquet ball rolling through their woods. They follow the source of the ball back to an abandoned English estate with a croquet course set up. There, they assume the roles of aristocracy as they pretend to be the inhabitants of the estate, following through the motions more or less after some trial and error. This ends when they gather to finish the croquet game, after which they give up all pretense and return to their woods to be savages. It is unclean whether this is done to make a point about the savage nature of mankind or of croquet.

North by Northwest, 1959: The most famous. A brief shot of one of the villains playing solitaire croquet is glimpsed in the beginning of the film.

Heathers, 1989: The most stylish. Here, croquet is played for it's status value by a ruling clique in this teen black comedy. The movie quickly leaves croquet behind however, as all the principles begin killing each other and themselves.

Alice in Wonderland, various remakes: Most whimsical. The croquet scene is interpreted more or less as Lewis Carrol wrote it, most famously in the Disney version. Flamingo mallets, hedgehog balls, and playing-card wickets!

Barry Lyndon, 1975: The least known. Stanley Kubrick had barely begun his career at this point, so this is one of his lesser known works. The lead character plays croquet along the way to ascending the heights of European high society in the 18th century, even teaching it to his son at one point. It is speculated that the prominence of croquet in this film led Kubrick to famously replace the croquet mallet with an ax when he translated Stephen King's novel "The Shining" to film for his next project.

Nosferatu, 1922: Most historic. Two of the characters are engaged in a croquet match, when they are interrupted by the arrival of a letter. A minor plot point, so much so that it is cut from shorter versions.

A Room with a View, 1985; Howard's End, 1991; The Remains of the Day, 1993: Most redundant. James Ivory has turned croquet into his main background activity in his films, by which time it may be certain that if a movie shows cultured people in period costumes whacking wooden balls around, it's probably a James Ivory movie on it's way to an Oscar.

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