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Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

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Re: Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

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Post by moe »

cscheid wrote: post #5

Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn't include "550 social +1, like, tweet, twat buttons"? Look at that website: there's a social banner, a social footer, a social sidebar, animated gifs for ads. Make that 15 lousy web design trends.

I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?

I tried a few times but the experience has always been so terrible and inconsistent that I've long reverted to simply sharing the good old copy/paste way.

Re: Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

#33

Post by brewdad »

cscheid wrote: post #5

Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn't include "550 social +1, like, tweet, twat buttons"? Look at that website: there's a social banner, a social footer, a social sidebar, animated gifs for ads. Make that 15 lousy web design trends.

I must be completely jaded by this point. I had to go back and look at the site again. My mind had completely blocked out the left sidebar and the footer. This crap is so common that I don't even notice it anymore.

Re: Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

#34

Post by muglug »

dizzystar wrote: post #29

Under the "Contrast Fail" is my single largest pet-peeve of form design. Once you click over that form, the text goes away and you may not know where you are. Please use labels, people. I have no idea why he didn't include that in this article.

This. Unless your form is incredibly simple (e.g. signup or login) you shouldn't just rely on placeholder text.

Apple has a nice solution to this issue on their checkout pages - labels placed on top of inputs, only disappearing once text is entered.

Re: Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

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Post by LoganCale »

muglug wrote: post #34
dizzystar wrote: post #29

Under the "Contrast Fail" is my single largest pet-peeve of form design. Once you click over that form, the text goes away and you may not know where you are. Please use labels, people. I have no idea why he didn't include that in this article.

This. Unless your form is incredibly simple (e.g. signup or login) you shouldn't just rely on placeholder text. Apple has a nice solution to this issue on their checkout pages - labels placed on top of inputs, only disappearing once text is entered.

The placeholder attribute in recent versions of Chrome behaves the same way—possibly longer, but I only started noticing it recently—the placeholder remains in the field until you've typed a character.

Re: Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

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Post by bjudson »

okamiueru wrote: post #21

What does the 404 error have to do with HTML5?

Or using images for text? Many of these have very little to do with HTML5. Unless it's really about people abandoning Flash and bringing bad design habits to HTML. But even that doesn't explain the 404 "trend."

Re: Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5

#40

Post by bobsy »

moe wrote: post #32
cscheid wrote: post #5

Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn't include "550 social +1, like, tweet, twat buttons"? Look at that website: there's a social banner, a social footer, a social sidebar, animated gifs for ads. Make that 15 lousy web design trends.

I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons? I tried a few times but the experience has always been so terrible and inconsistent that I've long reverted to simply sharing the good old copy/paste way.

I have a big screen and I didn't see any of the social ad's or even the pop up at the bottom. It was only going back and actually opening my eyes that I noticed it.

I think this is why such buttons are so ineffective. They have been used so badly for so long a lot of people just completely ignore them. Its a bit like ad's on the side of pages. A lot of people won't even register they are there.

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