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Textured sites are a designer's dream. They get to pull out all their tricks and fancy Photoshop brushes. When done well, the sites are beautiful where the sum of the parts equals more than the whole. Like a symphony performed by a professional orchestra.

When they are done poorly, they are a hot mess. Think three-man band of five year olds — all banging pots and hooting kazoos.

Most textured sites have drop shadows dropping every which direction, an overabundance of patterns that don't match and make the eyes cross, and teeny tiny text in fixed size boxes that break when the font size is increased.

I once had a boss who never met a drop shadow he didn't like. Our websites all "popped off the page" and were quite visually disturbing. I asked him, "How many suns are on your planet?" but he didn't seem to think drop-shadow-reality should be a concern. I do.

Please join me in my "Save Our Perspective!" campaign.