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Slashdot's Vastu

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-go-vertical dept.

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."

8 of 386 comments (clear)

  1. Standards! by headkase · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Standards! by cptgrudge · · Score: 5, Funny

      I know "this thread is useless without pics" is a Slashdot faux pas, but calling this chick a dude is pretty harsh.

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  2. I've known for a long time.... by The+Famous+Druid · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... that the average /. poster is 'unbalanced'.

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  3. Windows by Konster · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. I sense a great disturbance in the Force by Ksempac · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course Slashdot's Vistu is bad...The site is full of the Dark Spirits of No-life Geeks and Noob-bashers. ;)

  5. Re:People in glass houses... by Ash-Fox · · Score: 3, Funny
    Erk, has anyone taken a look at Dr. Narang's website, The fusion of two sciences, Web Vastu?
    It reminds me of Powerpoint presentations from '97.

    *Shivers* So.. cold..
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  6. Re:Her website is damn UGLY!! by _Hellfire_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.webvastu.com/

    I wish I hadn't clicked on that link.

    The goggles... they do NOTHING!

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  7. We don' need no steenking standards... by mysticgoat · · Score: 3, Funny

    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:

    • 2 CSS errors, such that some elements of the design will not render the way intended
    • over 70 CSS warnings— enough to discourage anyone from taking this website as a serious authority on website implementation
    • total failure to validate under W3C standards-- since the website is not written in standard HTML but in a bastardized variant of HTML issued by HoTMetaL in 1997.

    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...