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Slashdot's Vastu
nanopolitan writes "Wired has a story on harmonious website design according to Vastu, 'the Indian counterpart of feng shui'. The graphic accompanying the story has an analysis of Slashdot's design by Dr. Smita Narang. Her verdict? This site is 'in desperate need of balance'." From the article: "Thirty-year-old Smita Narang is rapidly becoming one of India's hottest Web designers. Her method: applying vastu shastra, the Indian counterpart of feng shui, to the online realm. The process entails mapping page attributes - HTML, colors, graphics - to elements like fire, water, and air. 'Any disturbance of these established elements can cause an imbalance in the site that directly affects its business,' Narang says."
If he encourages the use of the blink tag I vote we brand him a heretic and burn him at the stake.
I'm not kidding.
Shh.
... that the average /. poster is 'unbalanced'.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
Windows Vastu.
It's clear that Microsoft's GUI designers have been smoking some pretty serious weed and studying arcane bullshit notions and ologies of myth when you use Vista or IE7.
Of course Slashdot's Vistu is bad...The site is full of the Dark Spirits of No-life Geeks and Noob-bashers. ;)
http://www.webvastu.com/
Yes, it's a picture of beauty which adapts web standards from, er, well from a few years back really.
The site looks like a large blob of curry stains, but boy, is it ever harmonious, with the use of white text on a curry brown background !
Note how the footer is in black italic text and how the whole construct is cunningly created in tables!
Note the subtle use of a ruddy great drop shadow on the logo!
Hear the stunning web page background music when you visit the news page - that sounds like it's playing out of a toilet after a heavy nights drinking in a curry den.
Yes, folks, it's a far better layout than Slashdot, indeed.
After all, who needs good design when you've got Webvastu !
It's harmonious darnit, because we all love muddy brown websites!
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
*Shivers* So.. cold..
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
http://www.webvastu.com/
I wish I hadn't clicked on that link.
The goggles... they do NOTHING!
"And then I visited Wikipedia
A lot of /. readers are full of hot air, so I think Smita is right in saying that there is "too much air flow" in /.
Did you use feng shui to determine the aesthetics of your post's punctuation?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Irrespective of the gender confusion of parent, or the relative merits of using Vastu Shasta in preference to Feng Shui or one of the western astrological website balancing methods, this website designer needs some serious help:
A website designer needs to be held to a very high standard of compliance. This website designer fails it.
This post deserves to be modded as very, very funny...