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Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Matters

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Re: Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Matters

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When it comes to creative freedom vs reusable blocks, the latter will always win. Period. Assembly language provided creative ways to solve a problem. C won because it had patterns to solve them across projects. Word processors provide creative ways to layout your document. Yet markdown is winning because it solves the layout problem with reusable syntax. People like patterns and reusability. Be it developers who wan…

C won because UNIX was free, and C was UNIX. What you're thinking is COBOL. It was designed with portability in mind. Write once, run everywhere before it was cool. By the way, assembly is still one of the most popular languages (or language families).

Re: Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Matters

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Looking at most of these designs, it strikes me that most of them are completely unusable for a simple blog. I just don't have that many photos for my website. It's mostly text and information. I am not sure how many people actually do, or actually want that many visuals on their site. Most of those design just look cluttered to me. They fit the high-end physical product well that requires a lot of visuals to sell, but I am not sure it really meets the needs of the average website out there today.
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