Latest trend in website layout/reviews...

[KLin]

have you seen ESPNs new page?

its one of the worst things ive ever seen

This. I now go elsewhere to check on scores.

 

[KentState]

This. I now go elsewhere to check on scores.

Not sure how it made it into production. I know sometimes change is good, but the new site is just a mess. I always liked going from the scores at the top directly into the box or line scores. Now I have to click through multiple pages to get the same information. Also, the lack of contrast between different areas on the page makes everything look like jumbled text on a white background. cbssports.com seems to a little easier to read in comparison.

 

[JMapleton]

Didn't MSNBC or NBCNews bomb with some futuristic layout too about a year ago? These companies just don't get it, do they?

 

[Red Squirrel]

this is a proper website...

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

LOL that's awesome.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bolded the main problem for you. Don't go to sketchy places on the internet and you'll greatly reduce your risk.

The problem with that train of thought is one does not simply control what sites they go to 100% or even know which ones are bad or good. If you are doing research or something and typing stuff into google you will land on all sorts of sites, some of which may be bad. Good security will let you visit those sites and nothing will happen because that stuff will be blocked by default.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

check this crap out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/state-of-terror

 

[Red Squirrel]

check this crap out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/state-of-terror

Short blurb about terrorism followed by a "try it" button. :hmm: Is that an ISIS recruitment page? lol

Actually another trend I'm noticing is these squares with numbers in them, what are those? I'm guessing it's suppose to show something else, but yet again people are coding stuff that only works on specific platforms.

 

[lupi]

I feel like someone should be handing me a coin. Haven't been to espn.com since 4/2 #neverforget.

Been doing mostly nfl.com for football side but missing out on most other news. Sadly espn seems to be the one with the most stories across all types.

 

[xeemzor]

I think http://www.hooli.xyz/ exemplifies this problem perfectly.

 

[midwestfisherman]

LOL - funny you make a thread about this. I was talking with some buddies about going out for some music and beers tonight, and one of them mentions "Public House 49" .... so I go to their website to check it out for more information, you know... maybe a menu or something?

http://www.publichouse49.com/

What's the point in even having a site like that! Turrible!

 

[Cerb]

I think http://www.hooli.xyz/ exemplifies this problem perfectly.

It's corporate consultantspeak, too. Aside from it being copyrighted by HBO, I don't know any more about it than before going there, nor do I have any interest.

 

[Crusty]

Short blurb about terrorism followed by a "try it" button. :hmm: Is that an ISIS recruitment page? lol

Actually another trend I'm noticing is these squares with numbers in them, what are those? I'm guessing it's suppose to show something else, but yet again people are coding stuff that only works on specific platforms.

Don't you browse with javascript disabled? That's probably why it looks messed up to you.

 

[Ichinisan]

I guess I never mentioned this before: join.me

 

[purbeast0]

It's corporate consultantspeak, too. Aside from it being copyrighted by HBO, I don't know any more about it than before going there, nor do I have any interest.

lol it's a fake company on the show silicon valley.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Wow what a disaster. You can tell they went nuts on all the template tools available. Good content does not require all of that distraction.

I guess when you hire cheap you get cheap output.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Don't you browse with javascript disabled? That's probably why it looks messed up to you.

I add sites to the list as needed, but still, sites need to be designed in a way that they'll at very least load without all that crap. Some have like 20 domains you have to enable, it's completely ridiculous. I mostly try to not have to enable it, mostly because of one thing, and that's modals (those gray out popup screens, basically like UAC, but part of the web page). They piss me off so much. Can barely go on any site these days without having one pop up at you at some point, if javascript is enabled. It's always when you're half way trying to read an article or something too. Wish adblock could block those, but I guess it’s something hard to block as there's probably many ways to implement them.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Mobile browsing is the worst thing to happen to site design in the last 10 years. Even worse, most sites stopped developing separate full and mobile pages. It's looked down upon as bad design. Meanwhile their combined site -- even with graceful degradation -- is overwrought and slow. Why do I have to scroll so much to view everything? My phone has a higher resolution than my laptop, yet somehow they can't fit more than a couple massive buttons on the screen at one time.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Mobile browsing is the worst thing to happen to site design in the last 10 years. Even worse, most sites stopped developing separate full and mobile pages. It's looked down upon as bad design. Meanwhile their combined site -- even with graceful degradation -- is overwrought and slow. Why do I have to scroll so much to view everything? My phone has a higher resolution than my laptop, yet somehow they can't fit more than a couple massive buttons on the screen at one time.

I've seen some HORRIBLE designs like this, where the site is full of ads and other garbage, and the actual content is literally a couple sentences. Not even exaggerating. Then you have to keep clicking next for a couple more sentences. WTF is that shit? I give up after the 2nd click if I can't get the full article on one screen that I can just scroll. That's after having to allow like 20 domains in noscript. Isin't it more complicated to code this way, I don't get why they even do it, they are making more work for themselves AND making the experience suck more, not to mention wasting more bandwidth, which cost them more. Take my ancient site http://www.iceteks.com for example, it was coded in the early 2000's, but it's much more readable and accessible than most of today's garbage. Probably going to redesign it and stick to a similar layout, because it works. It's clean, no need to allow a bazillion domains in noscript, and the content is easy to get to without ads all over your face. Ads have their designated areas and stay out of the content. Though adsense is kinda useless nowdays as most people use adblock, so may look at some other ad system like rolling my own that uses non standard sizes where people can just run ad campains through paypal or something. I get emails all the time for people who want to advertise anyway. That old site still gets lot of traffic oddly. I really need to update it.

 

[Aharami]

well those sites certainly made my laptops fans turn on.

yea my CPU usage went thru the roof while trying to scroll thru those sites.
Parallax design was nice when it first came out. Now it's just annoying

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hearing all the fans spin up just to read an article or something is always a good indication of poor coding. :biggrin:

Speaking of poor coding, I had to work on a Vista machine the other day. OMG I forgot how bad it is. It should be called Microsoft Windows Vista: Codename Not Responding. That OS can't multitask at all, just clicking too fast and it locks up. Of course that particular machine was slow to begin with, but wow never seen it get that bad, even in an XP spyware infected machine.

 

[Cerb]

lol it's a fake company on the show silicon valley.

I figured it was something like that, once I got to the fine print at the bottom, but exactly what I was obviously clueless about (TBH, this is the first I've heard of this show). They had people with experience do it, though. While overly flamboyant, I could imagine something similar for any number of smaller companies doing government contracting work.

 

[Phoenix86]

I figured it was something like that, once I got to the fine print at the bottom, but exactly what I was obviously clueless about (TBH, this is the first I've heard of this show). They had people with experience do it, though. While overly flamboyant, I could imagine something similar for any number of smaller companies doing government contracting work.

http://www.piedpiper.com/

Middle-out lossless compression algorithm, fully searchable.

 

[purbeast0]

Hearing all the fans spin up just to read an article or something is always a good indication of poor coding. :biggrin:

Speaking of poor coding, I had to work on a Vista machine the other day. OMG I forgot how bad it is. It should be called Microsoft Windows Vista: Codename Not Responding. That OS can't multitask at all, just clicking too fast and it locks up. Of course that particular machine was slow to begin with, but wow never seen it get that bad, even in an XP spyware infected machine.

games must all be poorly coded then. same with photoshop and video players.

(ps. cpu intensive stuff != poor coding)

 

[futurefields]

i hate all this internet 2.0 crap

 

[futurefields]

"Web 2.0 has created a cult of digital narcissism and amateurism, which undermines the notion of expertise by allowing anybody, anywhere to share and place undue value upon their own opinions about any subject and post any kind of content, regardless of their actual talent, knowledge, credentials, biases or possible hidden agendas"