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Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Post by vacri »

laumars wrote: post #49
dualogy wrote: post #8

Aaaand it's down. lingscars.com will never understood why a scary DDoS from a "Hacker site" hit them..

Sadly Lin is now blaming Hacker News for hacking her site with the intention of taking it offline - which is just retarded as: a) we're legitimate curious visitors (albeit not maybe not customers - but who's to say that some of us wouldn't be converted from window shoppers to buyers - that's kind of the point of websites after all) and b) her webserver set up to only allow for 500 concurrent connections. Which is jus…

Her site is fun. I remember a while ago, you could go to the site map and it'd been laid out like a concentration camp. The visitors at various pages/camp locations would be little humanoids with the relevant browser logo for the head.

She sells cars for a living; she's not an elite hacker, just a curious one.

Also, being a speaker of British English, she would never design her site 'ironically', because irony in British English precludes intention.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#52

Post by rimantas »

kfk wrote: post #23
scrapcode wrote: post #18

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ - Survived the tests of time. I hear it still converts ;]

First time I saw this I thought: "uhm, what a nice scammy little site..."

That was one of my favorite funny examples, where people with enormous amount of money built such a simple website.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#54

Post by mattmanser »

laumars wrote: post #49
dualogy wrote: post #8

Aaaand it's down. lingscars.com will never understood why a scary DDoS from a "Hacker site" hit them..

Sadly Lin is now blaming Hacker News for hacking her site with the intention of taking it offline - which is just retarded as: a) we're legitimate curious visitors (albeit not maybe not customers - but who's to say that some of us wouldn't be converted from window shoppers to buyers - that's kind of the point of websites after all) and b) her webserver set up to only allow for 500 concurrent connections. Which is jus…

To be fair, the trouble with a name like Hacker News is that the uninitiated don't know it's for programmers and entrepreneurs.

And I never get people having a go about stuff like concurrent connections at amateurs, that's completely our fault.

Why can't web servers stop acting like babies that need constant attention with some sort of mystical knowledge to stop them falling over when something new happens? Why is our software so brittle?

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#56

Post by nicholassmith »

kfk wrote: post #23
scrapcode wrote: post #18

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ - Survived the tests of time. I hear it still converts ;]

First time I saw this I thought: "uhm, what a nice scammy little site..."

Especially with the cheap car insurance promo.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#57

Post by laumars »

vacri wrote: post #51
laumars wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly Lin is now blaming Hacker News for hacking her site with the intention of taking it offline - which is just retarded as: a) we're legitimate curious visitors (albeit not maybe not customers - but who's to say that some of us wouldn't be converted from window shoppers to buyers - that's kind of the point of websites after all) and b) her webserver set up to only allow for 500 concurrent connections. Which is jus…

Her site is fun. I remember a while ago, you could go to the site map and it'd been laid out like a concentration camp. The visitors at various pages/camp locations would be little humanoids with the relevant browser logo for the head. She sells cars for a living; she's not an elite hacker, just a curious one. Also, being a speaker of British English, she would never design her site 'ironically', because irony in Bri…

> Her site is fun. I remember a while ago, you could go to the site map and it'd been laid out like a concentration camp. The visitors at various pages/camp locations would be little humanoids with the relevant browser logo for the head.

"Fun" and "concentration camp" are two words that should never be used in the same context.

> She sells cars for a living; she's not an elite hacker, just a curious one.

Well obviously. I wasn't complaining about her abilities as a hacker though. I was commenting about how I preferred her site when I thought it was a deliberate ploy to go viral.

> Also, being a speaker of British English, she would never design her site 'ironically', because irony in British English precludes intention.

I'm British English too - and few people here know the correct term for "ironic" let alone use it accurately. We've truly adopted Americanised term there. However if you follow "The King's English", then the term simply refers to stating the contrary to what is meant. Since I was referring to her site looking like it was meant to be amaturish but in fact being deliberate, that could be argued as being "ironic". But regardless of it's usage, you're just arguing semantics and thus missing my point entirely.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#58

Post by kfk »

nicholassmith wrote: post #56
kfk wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First time I saw this I thought: "uhm, what a nice scammy little site..."

Especially with the cheap car insurance promo.

Did you actually read the message from Buffet to convince people to buy jewelry?

--> http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/message.html

Fine jewelry, watches and giftware will almost certainly cost you less at Borsheim's. I've looked at the figures for all publicly-owned jewelry companies and the contrast with Borsheim's is startling. Our one-store operation, with its huge volume, enables us to operate with costs that are fully 15-20 percentage points below those incurred by our competitors. We pass the benefits of this low-cost structure along to our customers.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#59

Post by robryan »

C1D wrote: post #36
barbs wrote: post #24

MSY, a popular computer parts store in Australia, has always had a pretty dodgy-looking website. http://msy.com.au/

They're probably the most popular PC parts store in Australia (I've bought from them), yet it looks like they couldn't afford to upgrade their site template they created in 1997.

Last time I went in there I was impressed that they had now invested in a few tables around their counter area.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#60

Post by andyhmltn »

MartinMcGirk wrote: post #20

It's not just the small players that preserve such excellent retro-design insight. May I introduce the HBO Corporate website: http://www.homeboxoffice.com/

It's nice how they posted the website opening hours on the website. Really good stuff.
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