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WHILE YOU'RE STILL IN COLLEGE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL YOUR NON-PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES ESPECIALLY IN WRITING AND DESIGN HOW IRONIC THAT THIS ARTICLE IS FROM A G

by edw519 16y ago

WHILE YOU'RE STILL IN COLLEGE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL YOUR NON-PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES ESPECIALLY IN WRITING AND DESIGN HOW IRONIC THAT THIS ARTICLE IS FROM A GROUPON PERSON AND GROUPON HAS SUCH CLEVER AND HUMOROUS WRITING AND BEAUTIFUL DESIGN YET HIS BLOG LIKE THIS COMMENT IS PRACTICALLY UNREADABLE BECAUSE OF YUCKY TYPEFACE AND BLOG SETUP DO WHAT OP SAYS BUT NOT WHAT HE DOES

sliverstorm 16y ago
I'm not sure if I should downvote you because your post is really annoying me, or if I should upvote you for the self-referential murdering of style...
seancron 16y ago
Along these lines, where could I get a design critiqued so that I could avoid comments like this about my own site?
Osmose 16y ago
I understand the need for good typography and design and the importance of readability. I agree that they are important factors in web design. But really? Unreadable? The typeface isn't THAT bad, nor is the website design THAT horrible.
pchristensen 16y ago
How do you like it now? Better? (aside from the broken images for the RSS logo)
- edw519 16y ago
  Not really. Firefox on Windows XP. Needs: - smaller font (too much scrolling) - darker font (not enough contrast) - proportionally spaced font - left margin way too small - right margin doesn't need to be aligned - white space between bullets Didn't mean to pick, it's just that this design is so different from the Groupon emails I enjoy getting every day :-) I also wanted to point out some of the best advice I ever got, that even for a programmer, there's a lot more to life than programming, especially while you're still in college and so much else is readily available. Once you're in a cubicle, you won't have as many opportunities to learn other stuff. [EDIT: I refreshed and it looks great now, all except the left margin. Wow, I feel empowered. Thank you Peter and thank you Groupon.]
  - pchristensen 16y ago
    Try a hard refresh. I put in a completely different theme that has most of those things. It sounds like you're still getting the old theme. Besides, Groupon might as well close up shop if they had to rely on my design sense :)
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by edw519 16y ago

sliverstorm 16y ago

I'm not sure if I should downvote you because your post is really annoying me, or if I should upvote you for the self-referential murdering of style...

seancron 16y ago

Along these lines, where could I get a design critiqued so that I could avoid comments like this about my own site?

Osmose 16y ago

I understand the need for good typography and design and the importance of readability. I agree that they are important factors in web design. But really? Unreadable? The typeface isn't THAT bad, nor is the website design THAT horrible.

pchristensen 16y ago

How do you like it now? Better? (aside from the broken images for the RSS logo)

edw519 16y ago
Not really. Firefox on Windows XP. Needs: - smaller font (too much scrolling) - darker font (not enough contrast) - proportionally spaced font - left margin way too small - right margin doesn't need to be aligned - white space between bullets Didn't mean to pick, it's just that this design is so different from the Groupon emails I enjoy getting every day :-) I also wanted to point out some of the best advice I ever got, that even for a programmer, there's a lot more to life than programming, especially while you're still in college and so much else is readily available. Once you're in a cubicle, you won't have as many opportunities to learn other stuff. [EDIT: I refreshed and it looks great now, all except the left margin. Wow, I feel empowered. Thank you Peter and thank you Groupon.]
- pchristensen 16y ago
  Try a hard refresh. I put in a completely different theme that has most of those things. It sounds like you're still getting the old theme. Besides, Groupon might as well close up shop if they had to rely on my design sense :)

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