Interesting Article on Trends

[Moldy Cheese]

www.webdesignfromscratch.com/pursuit_of_the_original.cfm

He brings up some very good points. Ever since I read this, I've tried not to call things trendwhore, simply because of some of the points he brings up. I love the "True originality is a Siren" paragraph. It's so true.

[gray929]

Great find. A lot of that stuff is right on.

[Oracle]

It actually also depends who makes, for example, a certain unique skin.

If a newbie to ProBoards makes a unique skin, he'll probably get bashed with negative comments, while when a designer with a high reputation in PB makes a unique skin, people will generally give almost all the time good feedbacks.

So, it's partially also the kind of reputation a person has.

[Moldy Cheese]

corez said:

It actually also depends who makes, for example, a certain unique skin.

If a newbie to ProBoards makes a unique skin, he'll probably get bashed with negative comments, while when a designer with a high reputation in PB makes a unique skin, people will generally give almost all the time good feedbacks.

So, it's partially also the kind of reputation a person has.

I think that's just favoritism, but I guess that could factor in as well.

When we try to do something totally original, we are more likely to fail than to succeed.

I can testify to that. And the key word in that quote is 'totally.'