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Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (2019)

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Re: Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (2019)

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Post by LeoPanthera »

mid-kid wrote: post #81
moozeek wrote: post #14

HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.

A supermarket isn't designed to sell you on a product.

...what do you think they're for?

Re: Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (2019)

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Post by socialismisok »

systemvoltage wrote: post #40
TuringNYC wrote: post #26

This 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.

Here's the thing, that website doesn't actually efficiently communicate as well as you think it does.

Information hierarchies have a bunch of channels to get the reader to understand what's important and what's not. Text size, color, motion, placement, rotation, contrast, images, etc. all contribute to drawing the eye to key pieces of information.

The link you presented is simple, yes, but the information hierarchy is nearly flat. It presents all the information as equally important by reducing the channels for information transmission it uses.

Our eyes focus on certain details because we have monkey brains that have been trained to pattern match certain things.

Re: Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (2019)

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Post by nerevarthelame »

I feel like this person wants the layout to be the Comic Sans of web design, where people in the know smugly look down on anyone using it.

Carefully crafted, unique designs of all sorts should be appreciated and lauded, but shitting on anyone who doesn't live up to that high standard doesn't seem terribly productive to me.

(Also, I'm not an actual web developer, but when scrolling through the site I did find myself thinking, "Huh, if I need a website in the future maybe I'll just use this template.")

Re: Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (2019)

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Post by anteatersa »

lamontcg wrote: post #75
moozeek wrote: post #14

HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.

or restaurants with plates

Plates are sooooo 2010's if my food isn't served on a wooden board or a tile I'm not even interested.
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