Given the credit crunch and the competition, website designers are fighting for new work. So it’s always nice when you get some, and for such deserving clients.
I have just finished a Web site for a medical clinic in Albir, near Benidorm on the Costa Blanca. You can now inspect this medical Web site yourself.
You can also check out my design notes for it if you browse my website portfolio, on my personal Web site.
You say ‘tomato,’ I say ‘Web site.’ Does it matter how we write it?
In the long run, no. But then, as Keynes said, “In the long run we are all dead.” In the meantime, it helps to follow a couple of simple rules. And on a Web site, it’s always important to be consistent.
In the first place, it should always be the Internet, with a capital I, and the Web, with a capital W. These are the names of specific things, like the Alamo—which always has a capital A. Or like the Monument, if you’re referring to that particular building in London, and not any old monument.
The World-Wide Web is not any old web—not a spider’s web, nor the tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive. So it should always be the Web.
As far as Web site and website go, it probably only matters to be consistent. What I do is use Web site as a noun, when I’m referring to a site itself, and website as an adjective.
If you have a better idea, please let me know! If I like it I might even offer a prize—such as a period of free hosting on Web Costa Blanca…