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Hey, Do you hate CSS ;-) When I visited your website, I actually checked my web developer toolbar to see if CSS is disabled. Can I design tarsnap and provide y

by azharcs 16y ago

Hey, Do you hate CSS ;-) When I visited your website, I actually checked my web developer toolbar to see if CSS is disabled. Can I design tarsnap and provide you a CSS template.

cperciva 16y ago
I don't particularly like CSS, but I do use it. I believe in separation of content and presentation, though, so I want the page to be readable without CSS. While the page is somewhat ugly, I think the minimalism suits the service. That said, if someone sends me a redesigned page, I'll certainly look at it. :-)
- azharcs 16y ago
  Sure, I am on it. Give me a week and I will have something to show.
_delirium 16y ago
I went to the site to see what you meant, and figured initially I had gone to the wrong site, because I saw some modern-looking thing with floating divs and whatnot. ;-) When you implied it was pretty old-school I was expecting the design to look like, say, this: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/
- deleted 16y ago
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zepolen 16y ago
It just goes to show that a pretty landing page is not all that necessary. Functionality and usefulness are more important than web 2.0 glitz and glamor. You think tarsnap's website is ugly now? You should have seen it at the beginning. I wish more HN startups would realize that. Almost all of the 'review my startup' posts are just a single page with an email signup form you fill out to be notified when the app will be ready.
- cperciva 16y ago
  You should have seen it at the beginning. To be fair, at the beginning it didn't claim to be a website -- it just said "there will be a website here later, meanwhile go read these blog posts about tarsnap".
apu 16y ago
Hah! tptacek: are you adding this to your list of data points? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639443 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639443
cynicalkane 16y ago
I like Tarsnap's design. It's easy to tell what's going on and there's no eye-candy to get in the way. The lack of design is old-school in a pleasing way.

by azharcs 16y ago

Hey, Do you hate CSS ;-) When I visited your website, I actually checked my web developer toolbar to see if CSS is disabled. Can I design tarsnap and provide you a CSS template.

cperciva 16y ago

I don't particularly like CSS, but I do use it. I believe in separation of content and presentation, though, so I want the page to be readable without CSS. While the page is somewhat ugly, I think the minimalism suits the service. That said, if someone sends me a redesigned page, I'll certainly look at it. :-)

azharcs 16y ago
Sure, I am on it. Give me a week and I will have something to show.

_delirium 16y ago

I went to the site to see what you meant, and figured initially I had gone to the wrong site, because I saw some modern-looking thing with floating divs and whatnot. ;-) When you implied it was pretty old-school I was expecting the design to look like, say, this: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/

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zepolen 16y ago

It just goes to show that a pretty landing page is not all that necessary. Functionality and usefulness are more important than web 2.0 glitz and glamor. You think tarsnap's website is ugly now? You should have seen it at the beginning. I wish more HN startups would realize that. Almost all of the 'review my startup' posts are just a single page with an email signup form you fill out to be notified when the app will be ready.

cperciva 16y ago
You should have seen it at the beginning. To be fair, at the beginning it didn't claim to be a website -- it just said "there will be a website here later, meanwhile go read these blog posts about tarsnap".

apu 16y ago

Hah! tptacek: are you adding this to your list of data points? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639443 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639443

cynicalkane 16y ago

I like Tarsnap's design. It's easy to tell what's going on and there's no eye-candy to get in the way. The lack of design is old-school in a pleasing way.