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Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by birdyrooster »

jasoneckert wrote: post #4

Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

It’s because so many websites have become generalized to become a platform to gain as large an audience as possible but that audience is splintering and decentralizing and there is nothing they will be able to do to draw them back to the gray zone

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by birdyrooster »

tokai wrote: post #79
marginalia_nu wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Responsive websites pretty much killed this type of aesthetic. It would be an absolute nightmare to get this sort of design to work well while supporting mobile. It's a real pity, because the hybrid designs we get now all looks like a bunch of uninspired rectangles.

People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

The handset is a dead concept and yet here we are carrying them around it’s sad. I can’t remember the last time I put a phone to my face yet that is exactly what the form factor was made for. It’s all but guaranteed Apple cannibalizes the phone handset market for a new mobile platform.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by marginalia_nu »

tokai wrote: post #79
marginalia_nu wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Responsive websites pretty much killed this type of aesthetic. It would be an absolute nightmare to get this sort of design to work well while supporting mobile. It's a real pity, because the hybrid designs we get now all looks like a bunch of uninspired rectangles.

People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

I think the real dead end is making websites for both mobile and desktop. They are simply too different to ever have any real hope of producing something that translates well to both without hopelessly crippling one of them.

Mobile-only sites, sure. Desktop-only sites, why not. If you want both, do both instead of making a hideous web design Cronenberg pleading for the relief of death.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by scotty79 »

moron4hire wrote: post #77
marginalia_nu wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Responsive websites pretty much killed this type of aesthetic. It would be an absolute nightmare to get this sort of design to work well while supporting mobile. It's a real pity, because the hybrid designs we get now all looks like a bunch of uninspired rectangles.

This site works fine on mobile

Mobile design was something created for old phones that didn't have quite the resolution of computer monitors. Modern phones don't really need mobile designed sites.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by JasserInicide »

esrauch wrote: post #6
jasoneckert wrote: post #4

Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

Sites mostly didn't look this good though, they were even more garish colors and 'under construction' banners

This is a great example of classic graphics design (at least I'm guessing she probably had some training in it) being directly translated to the web. It's just an image made entirely in Photoshop and the space for the links are carved there. Photoshop-designed websites definitely peaked in the early 2000s. Nowadays you'd be wild to start with PS for designing a website.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by bookofjoe »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #84
tokai wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

I think the real dead end is making websites for both mobile and desktop. They are simply too different to ever have any real hope of producing something that translates well to both without hopelessly crippling one of them. Mobile-only sites, sure. Desktop-only sites, why not. If you want both, do both instead of making a hideous web design Cronenberg pleading for the relief of death.

Back when mobile exploded I got a bee in my bonnet that I had to have an app for my website. I spent a couple thousand dollars to have a highly recommended mobile website designer do this for me. The result was HORRIBLE and I decided to just live with what I had. Turns out my native website on mobile looks GREAT, far better than on a computer screen. Go figure.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by bookofjoe »

VectorLock wrote: post #57
Forge36 wrote: post #45

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It was updated for the Netflix series. So it's still maintained

Consistent updates for 24 years. Makes me feel bad I never stuck with anything that long in my life.

My website started in 2004 and after 18+ years the only thing that's changed is the images are larger.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by omoikane »

jasoneckert wrote: post #4

Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

Part of it might be because everyone did their own thing back then. There weren't many frameworks or templates, and your content weren't delivered on top of massive social networks that enforced consistency, so individual websites looked unique and refreshing.

You might say that old websites were more artisanal while modern websites are more mass produced.

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