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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 kitsunesoba »

JasserInicide wrote: post #87
esrauch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I kinda miss the dead simple near-pixel-perfection and freedom of font choice that could be achieved with tables-and-images web design. If you were smart with choice of color, image format, etc you could even make them load fast on slow connections despite the large number of images involved. Their source code was awful to look at but it’s not like modern web design doesn’t come with its own dump truck full of trade-offs.

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

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Post by unsupp0rted »

xattt wrote: post #99
procarch2019 wrote: post #96

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Reddit mobile site does this when you tap a post. It drives me nuts. Then you have to hit back, which refreshes Reddit and brings you back to the top. I think it’s intentionally designed to get people to switch to the app.

> I think it’s intentionally designed to get people to switch to the app. This might also be a dark pattern to exploit attention spans compromised by chronic content consumption. A user sees new content at the top of the page, forgets the content they wanted to see, sticks around to look at novel material. THEN the user either goes back and gets distracted again, or at the very least, goes back to their intended page…

The day old.reddit.com goes so do I

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

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Post by ryandrake »

mxmbrb wrote: post #78

The modern internet is deprived of ornamentation in the same way modern architecture is. Tiktok allready upped the speed and made a lot of the established web seem terribly boring. I truly hope that AI generated content is putting the final nail in the coffin and we start to see more creative and individualistic media landscapes thrive again. Hope dies last.

There was an HN article[1] a few weeks ago lamenting how everything looks uniformly boring, beige and average, including houses, cars, fashion, movies, books, and so on. Nobody is doing anything bold or creative anymore. Everything looks like it’s been homogenized down to target some global ISO standard average consumer.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355703

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

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Post by moonchrome »

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

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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

If by fine you mean I need to zoom and pan to read it then I guess it does, but I doubt anyone would call that "working well on mobile".

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

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Post by mfext »

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.

For me, what was great back then were splash pages. The more creative your splash page, the better. It was l33t if someone centered their site, like one would center their splash page. This site does that.

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

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Post by MagicalEmi »

Oh, hello. This is my website. I'm Emily. I saw the influx of (nice, thank you!) comments on the guestbook, so I checked to see what was up. Yes, I keep the site running and haven't changed very much about it (mostly out of laziness) but I do periodically update it when something new (music, tv. merch, game, etc)happens. So I guess it is only still being updated because the franchise keeps popping up with random new things over the years. I do still have a lot of unfinished areas of the site that I tell myself I need to get done, but it has been 20+ years now, so you can see how well that's going (I see you, episode summary sections). I designed this for 800x600, lol. I am, frankly, terrified to actually look at the site on my phone. Back then I was really into making anime fan sites, and Bebop had such a nice aesthetic. Anyway, thanks for visiting my site and signing the guestbook. I am equally amazed that my old guestbook service is still operating.

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

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Post by justsomehnguy »

moonchrome wrote: post #104
moron4hire wrote: post #77

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This site works fine on mobile

If by fine you mean I need to zoom and pan to read it then I guess it does, but I doubt anyone would call that "working well on mobile".

I would take

>need to zoom and pan to read

over every time I forbidden to pan and zoom by the site author.

Especially when I'm behind 43" 4k monitor and the site decide

WHAT TEN LINES

PER SCREEN

IS EVERYTHING

I WISHED FOR

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

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Post by creamyhorror »

MagicalEmi wrote: post #106

Oh, hello. This is my website. I'm Emily. I saw the influx of (nice, thank you!) comments on the guestbook, so I checked to see what was up. Yes, I keep the site running and haven't changed very much about it (mostly out of laziness) but I do periodically update it when something new (music, tv. merch, game, etc)happens. So I guess it is only still being updated because the franchise keeps popping up with random new…

Nice header text designs and effects, you're good at Photoshop! We should start a webring on Xoom or Tripod.

But seriously, it's nice to see old-school fans still maintain websites independent of the big platforms and social media (Neocities being a recent bright spot). Webrings were a nice community-organic way to navigate to related sites/homepages, and we've lost that to the Social Algorithms feeding us what they think we should see.

Bring back Web 1.0 New and Improved, please. The Wild Web.

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

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Post by cantaloa »

scotty79 wrote: post #85
moron4hire wrote: post #77

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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.

You need text to scale and reflow to device width if you want text to be readable. This is one of the main reasons for mobile web design. Else you're stuck panning around the screen to read the text zoomed in.

Once you decide to scale text to device size so that it's readable, you are stuck doing the rest of mobile web design (fluid layout).

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

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Post by cooperadymas »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #98
ta8903 wrote: post #43

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It's funny how the site kept getting regular updates but stopped right in the middle of the owner watching the Netflix adaptation.

I’m into a casual fan and it was rough to try and watch the first episode. They could’ve made that contrast of high and low budget simultaneously work, if it wasn’t for the extreme miscasting and needless changes. I can only imagine what a super fan would’ve thought.

I'm an occasional casual anime fan who had never experienced the original but watched the Netflix show and mostly loved it. I was sad there won't be another season.
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