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Why We Are Here => Web Development => Topic started by: rcjordan on August 17, 2011, 12:21:53 PM

Title: I just missed the cut
Post by: rcjordan on August 17, 2011, 12:21:53 PM

Times: 50 Best Websites of 2011

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2087815,00.html

Title: Re: I just missed the cut
Post by: Rumbas on August 17, 2011, 12:33:37 PM

Hehe, I bet you did.. but you might get an award for.. design? <duck>

Title: Re: I just missed the cut
Post by: rcjordan on August 17, 2011, 01:25:34 PM

>design?

Design to make people think it's pretty?  Page through those sites, fundamentally they're much the same ...reminds me of when I look through travel site templates.  If I had a dollar for every travel booking site homepage with blue sky and palm trees I'd be set for life.  Pretty, yes, but still unimaginative.

Not that I'm particularly good at it, but good web page design is a lot like stage magic or social engineering; you use the user's preconceptions, weaknesses, and even their neural synapses to manipulate direct them.  That may sound sinister but every time you decide to put an ad block inside the F eyetrack you're using that exploit.

The holy grail, of course, is to do that AND be pretty.

Title: Re: I just missed the cut
Post by: Drastic on August 17, 2011, 01:36:02 PM

Man I hate lists with 1 list item per page.

Title: Re: I just missed the cut
Post by: agerhart on August 17, 2011, 03:23:48 PM

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Man I hate lists with 1 list item per page.

you can thank the ad-driven business model for that

Title: Re: I just missed the cut
Post by: rcjordan on August 17, 2011, 03:36:19 PM

>you can thank the ad-driven business model for that

And search engines for measuring time on site.