"Beyond the very problems it tries to solve (a notion to dear Mies) architecture's objective is to preserve an affective link with the built environment, to be an interface with nature and allow life in society through the artefacts of daily life. Without its poetic value, architecture is merely construction and without the craft associated to it, only improvisation."

—Michel de Certeau

5 – Websites are cultural artifacts. Like buildings, websites foster social discourses. They do so by establishing new ways of interaction or by initiating new aesthetic discourses.

"It takes time for a discipline to develop its own design values. Web design is a young discipline indeed. While we slowly begin to form our own set of guiding principles, we can look to other disciplines for inspiration.

The world of architecture has accrued its own set of design values over the years. One of those values is the principle of material honesty. One material should not be used as a substitute for another. Otherwise the end result is deceptive."