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What Makes a Good Web Design?
Grand Master Math asks: "I'm currently redesigning my website and I have checked out tons of various web sites, gone from link to link, etc...to find the best web design techniques, layouts, and features. Wow Web Designs proved to be a pretty useful site, as it showcased virtually 'the best of the web' in design and creativity. I was wondering what the Slashdot community has to say about web design and what the best web design should implement and address. From browser compatibility, to simplicity and complexity, and customization to user interaction, what should a perfect web design incorporate?"
I always thought black backgrounds and red flashing fonts were cool
Not just that, but also make sure that every word on your web page has a different color. That makes things easier to read.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Everything you want to now is here. Enjoy!
So presumably you'd be pretty impressed by this?
One wonderful IE feature... MARQUEE tags
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(try it)
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Personally, I like Slash. What's that? You say your website isn't an interactive forum? Oh, dear.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
i find the use of negative space to be absolutely breathtaking.
The only design that works contains the following:
.Gif icons (a must: apply a drop-shadow filter with Gimp or Photoshop!) .sig to advertise their business/website
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[] A teal color scheme
[] Black text on a white background
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[] A plethora of spelling and grammatical errors; otherwise, it will look like some type of machine is running the site rather than a genuine dumb human being
[] The ability to add users
[] At least 40% of all users must troll
[] Allow them to have a
[] Commenting capabilities
[] Comments must be rated as an integer value with 5 being the highest and -1 being the lowest. In special cases, incessantly naughty trolls can be bitchslapped into a -2 blackhole.
[] First post is life, the rest is just details
[] Moderating capabilites
[] Posts may be moderated an infinite number of times. Even if every rating is used a handful of times on the same comment, it should be rated as whatever adjective the last moderator thought it deserved.
[] Ultimate goal: build a large enough user base so that you can post links to sites you yourself hate on the front page and watch those sites' servers go up in smoke in a little under five minutes
This is meant as a joke. I love
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"A user," huh? Suuuuuure. And these condoms are for your, uh, friend, right? ;)
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
Totally! You don't have to worry about how to design the webpage, if you can just design the users. Just make them so they want whatever you're showing them. I connected the pleasure center of my user's brains to the yellow light receptors in their eyes. Then I just made all the backgrounds yellow, and they are ecstatic about it, let me tell you.
"I am a cipher, a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce" -Jimmy James
Just look at the most popular web sites on the web for your lead. By doing this, you will soon realize, a good site has: a plethora of pop-up/pop-unders, at least 2 new windows on closing the current one, spam advertising to ever known email address in existence, and lots and lots of boobs. It's a simple formula, boobs = hits, ask any teenage boy.
"Information wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, the same guy who said "Information wants to be free"
1) Take a look around Slashdot.
2) Do the complete opposite to everything Slashdot has done.
(Galeon has a handy disable animation feature :-)
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
A guy goes into a doctor's office and prods himself in the shoulder gently with his finger. "Doc," he says, "it hurts when I do this." Then he pokes himself in the knee, "And this." Finally, he pokes himself in the belly, "And this."
The doctor says, "You're Polish, aren't you?"
Patient says, "How'd you know?"
Doctor: "You have a broken finger."
Look - you already know how to open a link in a new window. Do it. I've heard a lot of people complain about a lot of things about web design, but never this.
This is one of the funniest and most ironic things I have read on Slashdot in a long, long time. Sehryan does a perfect job of playing the comic "straight man" who just doesn't get it, in one of the best performances of the year. Thumbs up!
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You're asking geeks what the best design of a website is? Ut-oh.
The 10 Commandments of Designing Websites for Geeks:
1. Thou shalt make sure the site works in mozilla, galeon, konqueror, etc. while producing multiple errors under MSIE of any version.
2. Thou shalt make the background black and the text off-white. If you're confused about how this should look : a.) format drive b.) install Linux c.) without running startx look at the screen.
3. Thou shalt not use evil plugins.
4.) Websites designed to work with Lynx get extra points.
5.) I know it doesn't relate to design but it needs to be said anyway: ASP bad PHP good.
6.) If Netcraft doesn't report back that the site is running on Linux it doesn't matter, we don't want to see it anyway.
7.) Site must prominently list all important sections either across the top or on the left side. Do not hide your navigation under buttons. We do not like buttons. We surf with graphics off. Additionally, at least one of these links must take us to a page about Beowulf clusters.
8.) If graphics are necessary, please have them be Linux logos, penguins, or naked women.
9.)We like our screens set to utterly ridiculous resolutions. If your site is best viewed at 640x480 keep in mind it will look awfully odd on our screens. (Picture a teacup poodle wearing a sweater designed for a great dane.)
10.) Design is optional.
-Sara
View Source... Cut & Paste. =)
thelikesofwhich.com
One of my favorite web-sites (which shall go link-less, for obvious reasons) states: "This page has been pessimized for Internet Explorer, as those of you listening to William Shatner singing Mr. Tambourine Man have realized."
- is not presented in an ordered list (<ol>)
- repeatedly uses asterisks rather than mark-up to indicate emphasis
- makes several external references but does not hyperlink any of them
- violates its own sixth commandment?
Some decent insight, but perhaps the ultimate lesson is that there's more than one way to close an <HTML> tag