Latest trend in website layout/reviews...

[Cerb]

parallax design. It's everywhere now

So that's what it's called! Now I can enact war against my enemy, for I have a name! Though, to be fair, the features used aren't bad, mostly that clickbait/news sites just use way too much white space, which effectively causes the effect to appear overdone.

lol at anyone who still disables javascript

So, you have a 32-core Xeon in all your PCs, minimum, I take it, with some 4S tower servers for running Chrome or IE? Conditional allowance for Javascript is the only reasonable way to browse with more than a handful of tabs, IMO. Otherwise, it's way too easy for the browser to get too bogged down loading a site, or by sites that incur background CPU use.

If you disable Javascript, you might as well disable HTML. Javascript is how web pages work these days.

You might be surprised at how little doesn't work, and how easy it is to manage what does and doesn't (click, click, reload). Some sites are easier to use that way, even. Plus, sites that may use too damn many 3rd party sites for Javascript, take forever to load w/ all enabled, and then universally have just wasted more time loading the page, on a >3GHz Haswell CPU, than it took for me to discern my value of the content (usually lack thereof). Opt-in Javascript rocks.

#web3.0 #batterydrain #failweb :awe:

You'd think that with more and more devices being mobile and having batteries, they'd try to go easy on us. Not to mention data plan restrictions and such. Nope.

That, too. Some sites are as bad as using my phone as a GPS.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What would be nice is if noscript would have definition files, so that known good sites are white listed by default, and this file could be updated if desired.

 

[Phoenix86]

http://publichouse49.com/menus/


honestly I just typed menu into the address bar after the URL, the main link took me to a static page

One easy trick to access publichouse49's SECRET menu!

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol and /admin works too. Way to make it obvious to access the admin portal. I'm not going to try to guess the username/password because I don't feel like going to jail, but it's probably something easy.

 

[BoberFett]

I was just have this discussion the other day and almost posted here about it (laziness won).

These "full width 1/2 height images" SUCK BALLS.

I should NOT have to scroll past an entire freaking page worth of a single picture just to get to the first text of the article. It'r HORRIBLE and certainly growing trend. Does it look good? Sure... I guess. But there HAS to be some functionality before form... right?

I despise those designs too, and they seem to be popping up everywhere.

Edit: Ah, parallax design. Yes, it sucks.

 

[kranky]

They are just doing what the market research tells them - that type of site design is all about users with tablets and smartphones. Graphics: tons of large pix; text: bare minimum. I hate it myself. Research shows there are more internet users on mobile devices than traditional PCs.

But I enjoyed this little snippet from the PublicHouse49 dummy menu page. This is the description of Grilled Flank Steak:

Press your haricots, with a good sprinkle of lettuce round dressed in a pan with some potatoes cut a quarter of bitter almonds, and slightly warmed. Cut your mixture, pouring over the yolk of rice till they are garnished with nutmeg.

The Grilled Flat Iron Steak is a bit more basic:

Toss the top, pouring over the threads from burning. Cook a dust of the rice till they have it heat.

 

[zinfamous]

Jesus that article makes me want to firebomb that guy.

I know, right? I kept wanting to set up various meetings with him just so I could punch him repeatedly. Not a single fucking thing of real value comes out of his mouth.

He makes some money doing completely useless shit that serves no purpose for anyone...and is completely dependent on the whims of google. He also had to create a stupid discipline to make himself feel good "virology" (yes, that obviously already exists and is completely unrelated; but is a necessary field for human endeavor...but dingleberry probably doesn't know that)

 

[Ns1]

I know, right? I kept wanting to set up various meetings with him just so I could punch him repeatedly. Not a single fucking thing of real value comes out of his mouth.

He makes some money doing completely useless shit that serves no purpose for anyone...and is completely dependent on the whims of google. He also had to create a stupid discipline to make himself feel good "virology" (yes, that obviously already exists and is completely unrelated; but is a necessary field for human endeavor...but dingleberry probably doesn't know that)

I'm sure he's crying in first class, wiping away tears with $100 bills.

 

[zinfamous]

And it's not that that bothers me, I understand tailoring to peoples innate urge to click on shit and be viral and using that to your advantage to make money, but more that he's so callous about everything else in the world and is ready to watch it burn.





It's too bad about the journalists. That poor girl Chelsea DeBaise sounds like a good journalist and is caught up in some shit ass website. That would be so demoralizing.

exactly. I don't mind entrepreneurs, even the scummiest assholes with no "fundamental skills,' like Steve Jobs.

It's guys liek this that constanlyt spout about the outright importance of their field, as if they are changing things for the better or even worse, destroying the useful parts of the establishment to reinforce the cultural scale further towards idiocy. It's those that do it with wanton glee or willful ignorance that bother me.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm sure he's crying in first class, wiping away tears with $100 bills.

again--I don't give a fuck. This is exactly why admiring someone simply because they can make money is probably the shittiest type of admiration to have.

It means nothing. Do something useful, for once. At least try to contribute to society. At least the teenager at McDonald's is flipping burgers. Way more respect for that person than jackholes creating clickbait.

 

[Ns1]

again--I don't give a fuck. This is exactly why admiring someone simply because they can make money is probably the shittiest type of admiration to have.

It means nothing. Do something useful, for once. At least try to contribute to society. At least the teenager at McDonald's is flipping burgers. Way more respect for that person than jackholes creating clickbait.

As an entrepreneur he's creating jobs; they probably pay pretty decent too. Why do you hate america so much? Given your hate for mayo, I'm not surprised. Because mayo haters hate america.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

"News" sites jettisoned their reputations years ago. Now it's all about hype, hysteria and getting the first word out on anything...fact checking be damned. Most news sites are nothing more than clickbait (slide shows), videos with a 30 second ad in front of it, and a wall of advertising around a few links and thumbnails.

you nailed it

 

[Ken g6]

I work for a web design firm and I can't wait for this particular trend to die out.

I do web programming too and I agree. But you gotta give the customer (meaning the business analyst) what they want. And what they wanted this year was parallax design.

You'd think that with more and more devices being mobile and having batteries, they'd try to go easy on us. Not to mention data plan restrictions and such. Nope.

Well, I tried to fix that on a site I worked on, at least. Devices with small screens get smaller portions of the image.

 

[Ns1]

I do web programming too and I agree. But you gotta give the customer (meaning the business analyst) what they want. And what they wanted this year was parallax design.

Don't blame the BA - that's what the client said at the requirements gathering meeting.

 

[Mixolydian]

parallax design. It's everywhere now

who is responbile for coming up with these names/concepts?

 

[n7]

It's because of this Marantz asshole:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist

These douchenozzles produce zero content but filter it out of all other content generators, tweak titles and verbiage to do nothing more than enhance "clickability," then blast it back out across their dozen or so stupid list-based websites.

Do yourself a favor and never click on a link to something with such a stupid title.

Holy god what a fucking piece of shit human.
That is just enraging to read.

 

[gdansk]

I hate many modern website layout.

I must be getting old? But I'm not that old. They just waste CPU cycles doing nothing useful. If I had my way, I'd go back in time and kill jquery.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I hate many modern website layout.

I must be getting old? But I'm not that old. They just waste CPU cycles doing nothing useful. If I had my way, I'd go back in time and kill jquery.

Yeah it's gotten ridiculous. The problem is it seems most coders have the attitude that just because computers are more powerful, their particular application can now make use of ALL of those resources and forget or ignore the fact that the computer still needs to be able to run other stuff too at same time. Just look at how bloated most software is compared to 10 years ago, it's crazy.

Things like jquery are good for very specific things like a web app, but really should not be used in a simple web page that is simply suppose to convey information. There's no reason for all this javascript in news sites and stuff.

 

[zinfamous]

As an entrepreneur he's creating jobs; they probably pay pretty decent too. Why do you hate america so much? Given your hate for mayo, I'm not surprised. Because mayo haters hate america.

Oh, go eat a bull dick.

 

[Mixolydian]

Yeah, it's all JQuery's fault! DIE, BITCH, DIE!

 

[purbeast0]

Yeah it's gotten ridiculous. The problem is it seems most coders have the attitude that just because computers are more powerful, their particular application can now make use of ALL of those resources and forget or ignore the fact that the computer still needs to be able to run other stuff too at same time. Just look at how bloated most software is compared to 10 years ago, it's crazy.

Things like jquery are good for very specific things like a web app, but really should not be used in a simple web page that is simply suppose to convey information. There's no reason for all this javascript in news sites and stuff.

yeah. let's have these computers with 16gb of ram in them but only use 100k of it. let's not take advantage of all of the extra ram and CPU power in the new pc's. that would be stupid.

 

[Mixolydian]

yeah. let's have these computers with 16gb of ram in them but only use 100k of it. let's not take advantage of all of the extra ram and CPU power in the new pc's. that would be stupid.

The average Joe does not have 16GB of RAM...

 

[SparkyJJO]

When doing a google search for anything there's no telling what kind of sites you can land on, and javascript is a great vehicle at getting infected. So is flash and java and all that other crap, but you normally need javascript to call up those things.

I've never had a virus on my PC and I don't even run AV software anymore, and I have not disabled javascript. I like my web to actually work right.

Only thing I have done is run ABP, oh and use some common sense not just clicking anything that shows up on the web

Back on topic (ish), I loathe the clickbait crap that seems to abound all over the web.

 

[norseamd]

www.smashburger.com

www.waybackburgers.com

www.fiveguys.com

 

[mmntech]

Example 1:
http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review

Mercury broswer on my iPad didn't even know what to do with that page. Took forever to load then only half loaded. :\

Want a good website design, follow the KISS philosophy.