I mention this because I think that fucks are like cookies....The first one: well, that's something special. It's funny. It makes a statement. The 70th one? Well, I'm not sure what to do with all these fucks.
In other words, I can tell that there's a potentially poignant idea about web design in this post, but it was a little drowned out because of the way it was presented.
One fuck is startling. Four fucks is tedious. Thirty-three fucks is art.
You could be generous and give them to people; just think of all the fucks you could be giving!
I think it would be difficult to find an idea in this post that hasn't already been more poignantly formulated on [0] or more funny and even less respectfully on [1]. I really don't see the point.
I also agree that web sites should be simple, but this reads like it was written by a 6th-grader.
Alternatively, since most websites reset CSS anyway, you can change your browser defaults to make it a more "pleasurable reading experience". If you're into that.
I'm just saying, these problems aren't really problems. The web was created for desktop viewing...
It's not really possible to enforce line-length with a user stylesheet (increasing the point size doesn't solve the problem, it just balloons the letters up to goofy proportions). This page just needs max-width set somewhere on the text container.
Web Style Guide – Basic Design Principles for Creating Website Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton 2nd edition, page 97.
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Oddly enough, I've got a set of stylesheets I've created to deal with effed-up websites. I've also got an "unstyled.css" stylesheet I apply to websites that have no or very minimal styling. Chief among what it does: give me some motherfucking margins, because I just love my motherfucking margins.
A few other bits, but all told, it's pretty damned light (one gratuitous styling effect, but hey, that's me):
a {
color: #427fed;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
color: #6f32ad;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:active {
background-color: #427fed;
color: #fffff6;
}
body {
background-color: #fffff6;
background-image: none;
color: #440;
font-family: georgia;
font-size: 15pt;
margin: 2em auto;
max-width: 40em;
width: auto;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
color: #703820;
line-height: 1.2em;
}
img {
float: right;
padding: 10px;
margin: 20px;
border: solid 1px #888;
box-shadow: 6px 10px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
}
p, li, dd, dt, blockquote, span {
font-size: 15pt;
line-height: 1.4em;
}I usually substitute words like "FUCK" with "FREAK" .. "WHAT THE FUCK" with "WHAT THE HELL" .. or as Prof. Eric Grimson likes.. instead of "Pain in the ass" .. use "Pain in some part of anatomy"
I'm talking about refraining from overexpression.
JUST LIKE RIGHT NOW I'M WRITING IN CAPS, THIS WHOLE SENTENCE, IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE I'M EXTREMELY ELATED TO TELL YOU SOMETHING YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED, BUT THAT DOESN'T DO AWAY WITH THE FACT THAT SOME PEOPLE JUST HATE CAPS BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE SHOUTING TO THEM.
Yes we all are pretty much very smart[SELECT * FROM DB BODY PARTS] to know that yeah.. use of swears is just a way of expression and not in this way---> a oh soo.. "COOL AWESOME!!!!!! WOAH~!!" type of thing these days.. specially with advent of english and its spreading acceptability as language of choice over [include <tim berners lee creation.h>] .. they are well at the end of the day still insults. So my point is that, yes its okay to use it sometimes to show how psychologically simulated you are.. but eventually its going to hurt someone out there.
What disturbs me, is that use of insults have become too common these days. For example, A friend showing up late might already be crumbling over inside about keeping the other guy waiting, but upon late arrival.. if he just DUDE TALKS you and say "What the fuck were you at man?!!!" .. it may sound normal to the speaker.. but more than a few times it does hurt to be on the receiving end, try putting yourself in his shoes. No one makes a point out of it because life is too short to make the discussion about this, and not just get on with the day.. but as you see:
#substituting insults with similar sounding words won't make you uncool!
#but it might on that rare occasion save you from hurting someone you cherish.
It doesn't disturb you that, for example, the USA and its allies have been carrying out or supporting unnecessary military action resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in south-western Asia and the Middle East for the last 13 years? It doesn't disturb you that those countries have granted vastly increased power to the state, greatly reduced personal freedoms, and reintroduced torture as an acceptable procedure, in the course of doing so? It doesn't disturb you that they think it is okay to kill people, away from the battlefield, along with any family members that might be nearby, by remote control from the other side of the world?
No, apparently what has been disturbing you is that people are using vulgar language in ways which could be perceived as offensive. If you don't like it, then don't have them as your friends, and/or don't read the things they write. No one cares about your prudishness.
EDIT: I see your profile says you live in New Delhi so you're probably not paying taxes to directly fund the last decades butchery. Still, I imagine that New Delhi is not short of phenomena more disturbing than vulgar language.
Besides, that would have been very off-topic
Don't put words in my mouth.
There are some very valid points here, especially the last part about browser problems being created by us developers and designers. It's all true, but honestly, I would rather put the effort in for a website that looks nice, has nice line lengths and heck, if the designers was gimmicky animated background colours, they can have them.
One widespread problem I've noticed since the early 00's is the lack of hierarchy. Designers are trying desperately to break the mould of a conventional webpage design but forget to distinguish between headings and page content all too often. I don't remember the last time I saw a website that wasn't a blog that had proper content hierarchy (H1, H2, H3, etc).
Internet connections are so fast nowadays that it doesn't even matter if your website is 1mb, even 3G mobile connections can load a page that big in a few seconds. The real problem with modern development is not page weight, it's the abuse of Javascript. Reflows and repaints are the real problem because people have a lack of understanding when it comes to Javascript, not 1mb of Javascript and CSS on a website.
<meta name="viewport"
content="width=device-width,
initial-scale=1,
maximum-scale=1,
user-scalable=no">
Why would you ever do this on a page designed for readability?
Tried searching for it but to no avail, though.
body {
max-width: 600px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
body {
-webkit-column-count: 3;
-moz-column-count: 3;
column-count: 3;
}No. Not it isn't. I don't think you know what satire is. Satire would be if took a jab at the ridiculous 80MB TeehanLax page by making an 800MB one and pretending it was a serious endeavor.
> Yes, this is fucking satire, you fuck
Whatever it was, you ruined it by trying to explain it.
May be not designers but hardcore programmers feel the same, why all the bells and whistles while the sole purpose is merely to inform your audience. There are people who still like the Linux black screen, instead of moving mouse or fingering the mobile devices, they love to key-punch the commands.
not just programmers there are people who dont like fancy things, like my grandma dont like smartphones, she is still using those pesky telephones.
So it's not Zed Shaw?
Imagine how unreadable equations and code can be if they are presented as plain text.
- Our goal is to get information to people. Keeping the site design simple
helps accomplish that.
- The use of graphics should be minimized, so pages load fast over slow
links, especially animations. The GNU Project is for everyone, even those
with slow Internet access and/or text-only WWW browsers.
Not that the site is beautiful as specified (I prefer margins, a slightly narrower text width, and slightly different color schemes). But if the motherfucking idiot designer doesn't overload the sites' CSS in the first place I can simply drop my default style on the page.
If the page is overdesigned, then I've got to tear it down and figure out what elements to re-style first. Worst: those Microsoft auto-converted pages with embedded styles. On. Every. Fucking. Element.
And for the people saying "but it should be XXX px wide". Don't specify line widths in px -- you almost certainly* mean to use ems. In fact, you probably want pt and ems for _most_ of your dimensions.
One thing I would definitely say is that there is minimal structure besides for heading/paragraph and if I was selling something, this website wouldn't work.
You need a basic structure through brand recognition > wtf the websites is doing > convince > call to action. Or something along those lines.
Again, I understand this is an extreme so the straight up headings & paragraphs are there but I think a nice middle ground would work as long as people THINK about what damn content they put on their site instead of stupid parallax sites for the sake of it.
/end rant
`<!-- FOR THE CURIOUS: This site was made by @thebarrytone. Don't tell my mom. -->`
And then at the bottom in the quote:
> "Good design is as little design as possible." > - some German motherfucker
There is the following cite:
`<blockquote cite="https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design">`
Which cites this article:
Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design
Ha ha, best quote imho :)
Maybe that means the site failed by being too distracting...\
Btw.: Here is a very popular blog, that has always had this style: http://blog.fefe.de/ [german]
> Did you seriously load 100kb of jQuery UI just so you could animate the fucking background color of a div? You loaded all 7 fontfaces of a shitty webfont just so you could say "Hi." at 100px height at the beginning of your site? You piece of shit.
I try every front end optimization technique I can, and I hate when developers don't even try to optimize their sites, but honestly, I don't subscribe to a fast [1] connection and have a fast, capable computer just to see pages with the default user agent styling. I want the parallax scrolling, the animations, the typefaces, etc. I just want the right to turn them off when I need to, but when I'm just browsing the web, I want websites to look as crazy as they can. That's the beauty of progressive enhancement.
[1]: You can hardly call low end DSL fast these days, but I don't have trouble with most websites. Maybe I'm just browsing well-optimized websites most of the time.
It's 2013 and website owners still can't parse theirs motherfuckingwebserver's logs, extract browser info and apply GeoIP database for visitor counting. They speak about privacy, but prefer to send all the data about theirs 5KB motherfuckingpages to motherfuckinggoogle.
-Always looking out for the PRC when I design.
Then again, it was also fun to play with.