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Love this "coming soon" page
- MikeCapone 16y agoCould someone explain it to me?
- chacha102 16y agoIt's a Coming Soon Page! How complicated could it be! clicks Umm ... yeah... Could someone explain it to me too?
- BoppreH 16y agoDeriving the world? Differentiating the planet?
- thaumaturgy 16y agod/dt is the standard mathematical representation for rate of change. My guess was "Change the world", and judging by the alt text for the image, I was close: "Changing the world". It's kinda neat.
- alex_c 16y agoWouldn't it be "the rate at which our world is changing", or something similar? Maybe I'm too literal-minded.
- jey 16y agoLet's pray that d(world)/dt > 0.
- albertzeyer 16y agoI guess it's highly multidimensional, so you cannot really compare it to a real number. But assuming that it is normed, you can say |d(world)/dt| > 0. Or at least you can say d(world)/dt ≠ 0. And I guess you are right there. Or maybe, if the norm is something like "goodness", we hopefully can say d(|world|)/dt > 0.
- wwortiz 16y agoIf it's constant at least we don't have to worry about 2012.
- dhotson 16y agoIt's a mathematical idiom common in calculus. For example dx/dt is usually read as "change in x over time". d stands for delta, which means difference or change. .. so you'd read that page roughly as "change in world over time".
- NathanKP 16y agoThe image on the "coming soon" page is hotlinked from another site. Also there are some interesting comments on the CSS that would lead me to believe that the programmer is maybe fairly new at this, and still feeling the need to heavily document the reason behind simple CSS rules.
- snprbob86 16y agoNo kidding: <title>Untitled Document</title>
- ispecimen 16y agoGuilty as charged! We're a bunch of MD/PhDs... Help! How would you perfect this file?
- coderdude 16y agoInsert the name of your company/organization in-between the <title> tags and ditch the "Untitled Document." Don't sweat the comments in the CSS because those will shed with experience. Change the big centered image from a .png to a .jpg. Try to get it down to around 30 to 60kb. Right now it's over 600kb, which is pretty big for a design element. As a general note you'll also want to add more text to the page and utilize your header tags (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) when constructing a full layout. That will make sure you've got something for the search engines to nab onto.
- alanh 16y agoOy, JPG is a shit choice for anything with graphics or text (as does this) — perhaps just the earth as JPG would work, or simply compressing the PNG a bit more (reduce the palette).
- lief79 16y agoFirst pass, (the obvious stuff): 1. always view the source before posting 2. remove the basic css comments, or ... if the new coders need them, run them through a script that strips them out before copying the files to your web server 3. Might as well give the page a title, so it doesn't come up as "Untitled Document" ...
- djcapelis 16y agoI dunno, the page seems pretty derivative to me.
- megablast 16y agoCertainly not an integral part of the 404 process?
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- mogston 16y agoComment bait? If you want to make this coming soon page useful, then insert a clear call-to-action that has purpose. In other words, now that you've got us all going to your lovely page, why not make good use of our time and request that we give you our details if we're interested in your startup...but that would involve you telling us more about your startup. Have a look at these for some inspiration: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/14/design-a-successful-coming-soon-page/ http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/14/design-a-successfu...
- heowbert 16y agoIt's not worse than lisping the world: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2003/index.html http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2003/index.html