nice job
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#82$('a').css({'text-decoration': 'none', color: 'navy'}) edit: you're right this is a particularly low quality comment. Just think the site could use some toning down on the styling. More visually pleasing, less distracting. Personal opinion, that is all.
Can you at least clue us in on why you pasted this seemingly random snippet of code?
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't look great on an android phone, though. And (possibly because of the missing viewport setting) I get crazy "let me zoom that for you" behaviour when I try to click on things. It could do with some responsive styling.
Weird. Seems to work fine with FF on my android phone
Really? You don't have a tiny, hard to read filter bar on the left side?
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Styling the links, giving it a proper header, dividing it more properly into sections, and that will look infinitely better and still work equally well on all screens. The site is a good idea, making it looks like a real project by giving it at least craigslist level of design will take half a day and increase the appeal a lot. And visitors like won't have to check whether the css just did not load before writing a c…
With all respect: I completely disagree. I think this looks great as is. Dividing it up, adding a bunch of extra CSS would make it less usable and readable for me. Of course, that tends to be subjective.
Just setting
a { text-decoration: none, color: [something else] }
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you know that? The site is already divided into three sections: header, controls to the left, laptop list to the right. To style that accordingly won't make it in any way less useable or readable. Making the header look like a header would not affect you negatively in any way, or properly styling the pagination, or giving it a color scheme (even one based on white as background). Really, this is a Show HN.…
> How would you know that? To be fair, I can't. I'm basing it on how I see your suggestions in my head. But the way I interpret the changes are how I've seen other sites do it, and it just sounds worse to me. I don't like extra styling, as it ends up cluttering the display. I personally find color-schemes annoying. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd have to see how OP implements your suggestions before actually deciding. > Rea…
> I think you really need to take a breath here.
Maybe. You see, I hesitated after writing this, but then decided to stick with it. Just because I really am convinced that it is really bad advice. Based on my own sites (and pc-kombo.de is even in a related field), if you don't get the design at least near of being okay, people won't accept your site. Based on my studies, I know that usability does not get worse when giving it a proper design. And readability can simply (well, sometimes it's not that simple) be measured, but there is no reason at all it would get worse by doing the basics.
There is a small subset of people (socialized with another internet?) who really think the design of a site does not matter for them, or who disapprove of everything they think is modern design. Based on your comments, you are in that category. And some others commented in the same spirit here. Listening to those means making a site which 99% of internet users won't accept. At least as long as your site is not craigslist – but even current craigslist has more design than what I see on OPs site.
Not having a design is perfectly fine for a MVP. But not fine when going further. Stating otherwise actively hurts his chances of succeeding.
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#86Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
I think the UI and design is absolutely superb.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Weird. Seems to work fine with FF on my android phone
Really? You don't have a tiny, hard to read filter bar on the left side?
It's a little small and hard to read, but not terrible. Additionally I don't get any weird zooming behavior that was described
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't look great on an android phone, though. And (possibly because of the missing viewport setting) I get crazy "let me zoom that for you" behaviour when I try to click on things. It could do with some responsive styling.
Weird. Seems to work fine with FF on my android phone
Now I have to assume you are trolling. On a mobile phone (tested on an android with FF), you need to zoom to read any text that is not a headline properly. And there is no way that pagination is clickable without zooming in directly on it. Google is saying the same: https://search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly?id=....
That is not working fine.
Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
#89$('a').css({'text-decoration': 'none', color: 'navy'}) edit: you're right this is a particularly low quality comment. Just think the site could use some toning down on the styling. More visually pleasing, less distracting. Personal opinion, that is all.
I think this is a good improvement!
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How would you know that? To be fair, I can't. I'm basing it on how I see your suggestions in my head. But the way I interpret the changes are how I've seen other sites do it, and it just sounds worse to me. I don't like extra styling, as it ends up cluttering the display. I personally find color-schemes annoying. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd have to see how OP implements your suggestions before actually deciding. > Rea…
> I think you really need to take a breath here. Maybe. You see, I hesitated after writing this, but then decided to stick with it. Just because I really am convinced that it is really bad advice. Based on my own sites (and pc-kombo.de is even in a related field), if you don't get the design at least near of being okay, people won't accept your site. Based on my studies, I know that usability does not get worse when…
I'm not against modern design, I'm against over-design. IME sites work better and are more maintainable the simpler they are. If a design improves a site, then by all means, make it more usable. But to me, function > design, and I don't see how your suggestions would make the site better. I'm not saying you are objectively wrong, I'm just saying that I'd much rather use this site than pc-kombo.de or other overly-designed sites that take functionality away on the premise of "looking nice".