oodlum - 10:45 pm on Oct 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

I agree in part with kapow (esp. fonts), but not about the screen defaults. If your monitor is calibrated, at least you will be working with an average. If you design for whatever your particular monitor displays by default, you could be way off at the other extreme. For example, if your personal monitor tends toward blue and someone else's has a major yellow bias, they will see nothing resembling the colours you intended.

At least a calibrated monitor puts you in the middle. You the designer will be working without any visual bias either way.

Designs should still be tested on different screens if possible. There is probably a PS plug-in that lets you simulate different extremes and show an average - if there isn't, there should be!

SeoArt (the boss):

Ever since using Huey on the design computers in the last 2 weeks, almost every one of the newly designed sites look terrible on my monitor and great on theirs.

You make a good point, but how do they look on your friend's computer, your mum's...? It's possible that your monitor is the exception.