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Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by Recoil42 »

JacksonGariety wrote: post #43

Downloaded. Opened. Drew a rectangle. Filled with #FF0000. It spit this out: https://gist.github.com/JacksonGariety/6766626 (after struggling and realizing CMD+S wasn't saving my file) I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

It's meant as an ad development tool, not a page development tool. Entirely different audience.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by Recoil42 »

mdigi wrote: post #53
JacksonGariety wrote: post #43

Downloaded. Opened. Drew a rectangle. Filled with #FF0000. It spit this out: https://gist.github.com/JacksonGariety/6766626 (after struggling and realizing CMD+S wasn't saving my file) I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

I thought it's a tool for designing websites - nope.

It isn't -- it's a tool for designing ads.

Calling it "Google Web Designer" was a terrible decision, but that's clearly not what the tool was meant for.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by pajju »

e12e wrote: post #48
pajju wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this looks as a perfect tool for ads — esp to create more appealing, eye-catching effects. But its Branded as Google Web Designer. :)

I know what you're saying, but "appealing" and "eye catching" effects are generally mutually exclusive (to the user that isn't interested in the ads, but the content...).

Yes, they are.

One of the other purposes of Advertisements are also to create impressions and Branding. You don't have to necessarily click every ad. :)

And with such visual tools ad making is very easy and reachable to all. A great project by Google. Kudos. With Visual tools like this we can interact with more depth. And lets not forget this is free too.

They might bring better ad-making experience overtime with built in ad-templates. All this will bring more Appealing ads.

And Eye catching ads serve as — Branding and Brand-remembering for Publishers, users notice them and remember(clicks not important in Branding)

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by wakkalakka »

tumultco wrote: post #56
wakkalakka wrote: post #38

This sounds a lot like Tumult's Hype: http://tumult.com/hype One of the primary complaints about Hype is that its HTML / CSS / JS output isn't very clean. I wonder if Google's tool produces better output. EDIT: Looks like not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6470640

Tumult Hype's exports are essentially 3 lines of HTML so it is easy to embed in other documents and output mostly takes the form of JSON animation data and a JavaScript runtime file. It isn't meant to be hand-edited or even read, since we minify heavily to keep file sizes extremely small. While everything has its tradeoffs, we went with this approach because: - Our app has a lot of animation and interactivity capabil…

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I do in fact agree it is probably unreasonable for people to expect automatic code generation to be hand-editable without disturbing the machine-editable workflow, but it is something that comes up a lot.

I see that Google's tool also seems to produce rather inscrutable output (see my edit to my original post). This does sound like one of those really hard problems where is pretty much impossible to balance the needs of the machine-modifiability with human-readability.

Thanks again for the reply!

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by andyharl »

sek wrote: post #60
JacksonGariety wrote: post #43

Downloaded. Opened. Drew a rectangle. Filled with #FF0000. It spit this out: https://gist.github.com/JacksonGariety/6766626 (after struggling and realizing CMD+S wasn't saving my file) I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

Who cares about what you think? Give some constructive criticism or shut up. Do you know how much code this is for a runtime and how many browser incompatibility issues this solves.

Pretty sure that he was being constructive. Did you look at the code?

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by radley »

simonsarris wrote: post #22

The most important feature of this (to Google(?)) is the built-in ad editor. It's the last point on the feature list page, but it's very telling that it's the first thing on the "Create New" screen. https://support.google.com/webdesigner/answer/3261498?hl=en&...

It's definitely an ad tool. The help section is entirely about making ads. If you look closely, the responsive layout is strictly for the ad, not the website.
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