I designed and maintain a website for a Winery Inn. Every time I update a page, their contact asks me if she will be able to print it this time. Every time, I have to remind her that no, the computer will not print white text. Occasionally when she asks this stupid frickin question I mention that since all I'm doing is pasting in text which she has written, if she has run her spell check and read over it, it should be fine. She will never concede my point though, always insisting that it must be…

Hey Kemie, yes I have thought of that. I don't think it's too wise to base an entire design around the fact that the owner's assistant feels she needs to print it easily one time. That's like GM designing a car to make it easier to crash test, while sacrificing the look... Also, the text she wants to proof is never more than 3 or 4 paragraphs at a time.. just read it off the fucking screen, or if you must print it, paste the fucking text into Notepad. If I was in a slightly worse mood I would ca…

Hey Kemie, yes I have thought of that. I don't think it's too wise to base an entire design around the fact that the owner's assistant feels she needs to print it easily one time. That's like GM designing a car to make it easier to crash test, while sacrificing the look... Also, the text she wants to proof is never more than 3 or 4 paragraphs at a time.. just read it off the fucking screen, or if you must print it, paste the fucking text into Notepad. If I was in a slightly worse mood I would ca…

No, each time she goes "oooohhh yeah, OK I guess we'll have to read it off the screen.." But yes I suppose I could turn the text black in the stylesheet, print the site out for her, and turn it back... if she asks again maybe I will do that...…