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Fri Aug-19-05 07:38 PM
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Holy Crap - Indian "Design" Company just got soooo busted ripping off site |
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Fri Aug-19-05 07:42 PM
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1. I've seen the pixelranger "look" elsewhere, |
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especially the too tiny pixel font. I can't read that shit and won't even try.
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Fri Aug-19-05 07:43 PM
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4. *psst* You're not supposed to try read the tiny text |
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Fri Aug-19-05 08:16 PM
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7. So it's all about the Flash? |
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Fri Aug-19-05 08:20 PM
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Fri Aug-19-05 07:43 PM
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One's blue and the other is red. Plus the music is like, TOTALLY different!
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Fri Aug-19-05 07:43 PM
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3. Oy, give us low bandwidth chaps a warning for those flash-based sites! |
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Flahs is a joke, but still...
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Fri Aug-19-05 07:44 PM
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6. Flash isn't a joke. Perhaps your experiences with it have been |
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but some people are making some wonderful things with it.
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Fri Aug-19-05 08:39 PM
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10. You MUST admit that 99.9999% of Flash usage |
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is gratuitous, pretentious, and annoying, if you're any kind of Web professional, and I know you are.
I am sure you are correct that some people are making wonderful things with it (animated cartoons, for one), but the VAST majority of it is what I like to call "Art Director's Revenge."
You know that's true. Come on, it's just me you're talking to, I'm your friend, you can admit it.
Redstone
PS: I go too far the other way. I won't allow my customers to use Flash in their websites. If they insist, they have to go elsewhere for Web design. So far, nobody's insisted. Go ahead and call me a dinosaur; I probably deserve it.
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Fri Aug-19-05 08:58 PM
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12. I respect that approach |
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I believe in extreme simplicity for web sites, and flash use often *IS* gratuitous. It should be reserved for designers who want to impress/annoy other designers. But eye candy will always sell. The customers think it's supposed to make them cool because the web designers tell them it does.
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Fri Aug-19-05 09:58 PM
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13. I try to avoid linking bad design with a particular method of delivery |
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Edited on Fri Aug-19-05 10:04 PM by DS1
Flash gets its bad rap because it's easy to download and make shit move around. So it often is overused, gratuitous, pretentious etc.
It's still a very capable software package, it's the self-control of its user base that's the problem. Personally I'm the opposite on the animated web cartoons thing, I think that vast majority of them are junk. It's the odd clean and efficient interface that I run across which makes me enjoy navigating and exploring a flash based site.
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Sat Aug-20-05 09:16 PM
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.. anybody that uses Flash on the home page as a sort of animated motif is more interested in himself than he is the web user.
The second link in the OP - web masturbation at it's most annoying :)
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Fri Aug-19-05 08:32 PM
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9. Works cool for Game Boy, X-Box or the latest Bruce Willis movie... |
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websites.
HTML in E-mail rocks too!.
Sometimes I miss websites when they were just ordinary black text on a grey background. ;(
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Fri Aug-19-05 07:44 PM
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5. Pixelranger's originality got outsourced. |
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Fri Aug-19-05 08:44 PM
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11. s'all greek to me.... |
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.....somehow I screwed up my computer at work tryin' to change the resolution...had to stand there like a moran while the system admin. guy took my tower away to fix it...sigh. :blush:
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Sat Aug-20-05 04:36 PM
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17. Er- it's all GEEK to me! |
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:rofl: I crack myself up.
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DS1
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Sat Aug-20-05 04:31 PM
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14. I'm going to drag this right back to the front |
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Back to the FRONT :headbang:
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Sat Aug-20-05 04:33 PM
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15. eh, looks like some sort of 'trendy template' or other... |
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Sat Aug-20-05 04:36 PM
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16. No, the first one is custom built |
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by a designer - not someone who trolls through template sites.
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Sat Aug-20-05 04:38 PM
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this makes me want to cry? this is the most horrible thing i've ever seen and it completly validates Redstone's one in a million ratio of good sites http://www.trendyflash.com/tdcsb/samples/sample10/index.html
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Sat Aug-20-05 04:46 PM
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19. well ok, maybe clearly not so 'trendy' after all but... |
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even when you get a dreamweaver, or whatever software pack, don't they have like a set of standard templates in there. i mean who wants to be original; i see this as original: http://www.aeonflux.com
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Sat Aug-20-05 06:45 PM
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20. Yeah, but it's Flash, and "Flash is a joke" |
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:shrug:
What's a guy supposed to do?
A shitty site laid out in Photoshop will look equally shitty in html or flash - which was my point above.
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Sat Aug-20-05 07:38 PM
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Sat Aug-20-05 07:34 PM
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That site got 10 seconds of view time before I got sick of waiting to find out what it was... ;)
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Sat Aug-20-05 08:26 PM
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24. Christ on toast points, you're not kidding! That one is SO wrong, on SO |
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many levels, I couldn't even get started in describing the ways it's wrong...
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Sat Aug-20-05 08:13 PM
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23. Oh, good Lord. They may be responsible for the crime of inflicting |
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Edited on Sat Aug-20-05 08:14 PM by Redstone
thousands of lame, horrid Flash-based websites on the unsuspecting public by putting such a weapon in the hands of people who have NO talent, so they buy "You Too Can Build Fancy Websites With A Click Of The Mouse Button" software, but at least they're cynically honest with the name of the website: "TrendyFlash."
I'll be they're secretly ashamed of themselves, like the people who wrote the code for Microsoft Front Page should be, but what the hell, everybody's gotta make a buck...
Redstone
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Sat Aug-20-05 08:32 PM
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25. too true, Redstone... |
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Sat Aug-20-05 08:34 PM
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26. You know. I was thinking something similar |
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I bet they were ashamed of such crap, but on the other hand, given my financial situation, I was secretly jealous of them for coming up with it first :rofl:
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Sat Aug-20-05 09:23 PM
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29. Yup. I'd have done the same, given the opportunity. Money talks, |
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and bullshit walks, after all.
Of course, there are limits to what I'll do for a buck, but after all, the people who came up with that software didn't desing those hideous websites themselves, they just made it possible, so...yeah, I'd sell that software if I had invented it.
Redstone
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Sat Aug-20-05 09:06 PM
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27. Websites that automatically play music should be abolished |
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I'm trying to listen to my own damn music jackass!
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