I recently grabbed a CSS framework that would take care of 95% of the styling I need for a prototype. Half of the reason for selecting Bulma is that it looks slightly different than Bootstrap. The same complaint applies, but I just want to work on the functionality right now :shrug:
Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (2019)
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#42It's a shame that Foundation withered. Their CSS framework is vastly superior to Bootstrap.
In my view the main issue with Foundation was the documentation, which is where Bootstrap shines while most other CSS frameworks and pre-baked design systems are generally lacking.
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#43This conflates websites as a medium of art or personal expression vs websites as a medium of business communication. For the latter, I just want to get the point across quickly and painlessly. For the former, everyone is welcome to design whatever they want and consume as much time is required.
No, truly utilitarian websites look and function like this: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm The template in the article is exact opposite. It conveys bloat, unoriginality and impedes efficient communication of information.
Yeah, but they don't sell to a very wide audience.
It needs to look nice, not unique.
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#44HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.
Supermarkets really need to get with the times. I mean, barcodes? Please. It's like they're not even trying.
Seriously. We're soooo over 1-d barcodes. Need to get a QR code on all that stuff. MMmmmmm.... Fiducial markers - that's hot
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#45Not even close. We're missing at least 27MB of carousel images, an entire mp4 on loop, a 4k 4000x4000 png being displayed at 320x320 and few MB of analytics.
This guy web develops.
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#46HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.
this is a good analogy, in that some supermarkets feel soulless, whereas others feel really cozy, even though ultimately they both have aisles with stuff on shelves. it's like the difference between someone using a template versus making something by hand. there's a human feel to the latter.
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#47Not even close. We're missing at least 27MB of carousel images, an entire mp4 on loop, a 4k 4000x4000 png being displayed at 320x320 and few MB of analytics.
It didn't even hijack the back button or ask me to subscribe to a newsletter.
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#48As much as I like custom made websites and design that take a lot of time, thought, and effort, I really hate when they make things too unique by doing something weird, like making me scroll left to right across the website, instead of up and down because "The concept is for the user to read it, like a book. Because the website is about an author. Get it?"
There is a twinge of pain that I feel in the corporatization of the internet, and the loss of fun that used to be so present, but I cannot in good faith deny the level of predictability and ease-of-use that comes with standard templates like that one. It's clean and to the point. It's nice to look at. It's so common because it's such an excellent design. Get the point across, offer a little bit of detail further down, offer contact info for those who are still interested.
I also really appreciate the lack of one of those tedious "not-a-popup popups" that so many websites have gone with, where they try to get you to sign up for a newsletter of a website that they couldn't be bothered to update their copyright info in the last 2 years.
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#49This conflates websites as a medium of art or personal expression vs websites as a medium of business communication. For the latter, I just want to get the point across quickly and painlessly. For the former, everyone is welcome to design whatever they want and consume as much time is required.
No, truly utilitarian websites look and function like this: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm The template in the article is exact opposite. It conveys bloat, unoriginality and impedes efficient communication of information.
Yeah but outside of HN, that is probably considered dated/ugly.
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#50Shouldn't there be a popup to subscribe to a newsletter before scrolling 10% of the content?
It'll pop up when it sees the mouse pointer move up the page to the back button/URL bar.