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Sure but they are web pages, not websites. The distinction matters and does undermine the satire somewhat.
by ChrisSD 7y ago
Sure but they are web pages, not websites. The distinction matters and does undermine the satire somewhat.
- adrianN 7y agoWhat's the distinction?
- pavpanchekha 7y agoMore than one page. Sounds trivial, but having more than one web page also means you'll have navigation, which is much more challenging on default browser styles than simple document markup.
- 7777fps 7y agoIt's almost a shame the idea of having a sitemap.xml which the browser could parse and provide native navigation for never took off. Of course it didn't because native controls are the first thing any designer changes because native controls on the web were always associated with amateur websites.
- shantly 7y agoTo be fair native controls were total ass for years. And still kind of are. Doubly so if you're trying to build an "app". Basic crap any half-decent UI toolkit would provide out of the box, just not there at all. The stuff that is there's often not great. It seems like as soon as it became common to work around problems with HTML ui in Javascript, the already-slow work to improve the standard appearance and functionality of HTML websites dropped to almost zero. We got some alright semantic-markup stuff after that but it took forever to even get a couple layout primitives that are non-terrible.
- x3haloed 7y agoRight. This page is also not interactive. I'd like to to see an interactive example that's also not an eye sore.
- robofanatic 7y agohttps://craigslist.org https://craigslist.org
- patentatt 7y agoI’m no designer, and I have lots of love for Craigslist, but ... does it qualify as ‘not an eyesore?’
- x3haloed 7y agoNo. It's certainly an eye sore.
- RandomGuyDTB 7y agoIs it? I've never had any problem using Craig's List and it just works. There are no hamburgers, no material design, the dropdowns look like dropdowns, and the links look like links. I love Craig's List! It's one of the only shopping/marketplace websites I don't dislike. My philosophy is that if you want it to have fancy CSS and skeuomorphic buttons, use a CSS extension and make your own CSS for it. Even better - use a browser that lets you edit a page's CSS in WYSIWYG (if there are any). If Craig's List was suddenly revamped and looked like Amazon or Newegg, I would no longer use it.
- thrower123 7y agoIt's a thing of pure, unadulterated beauty in this day and age.
- robofanatic 7y agoagreed it is eyesore. but, it is lightweight it is responsive and it works
- torgoguys 7y agoIt's a thing of beauty. Simple, functional, information dense, logical layout. I don't use craigslist, but pulling it up, it is immediately obvious what needs to be done and how to do it. Hero images are eyesores.
- iscrewyou 7y agoThere’s a distinction between a website and a web app. Web pages and websites are synonymous.
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- ChrisSD 7y agoNo I meant those two pages are each a single, individual, isolated page. A website is a collection of web pages, usually structured (even if loosely).
- wtetzner 7y agoSo, to make it a website you just need some links on each page that let you get to the other pages. I don't see how that undermines the satire.
- earthboundkid 7y agoBecause it's easy to make one webpage, but when you make a website, you immediately run into a huge wall of issues about consistency and navigability. For example, it's become a convention that in the upper-left of a website, there will be a logo that leads you to the homepage of the site. How do you do that with bettermotherfuckingwebsite?
- debaserab2 7y agoHugo or any other static page generator work perfectly for maintaining clean and consistent markup.
- SamBam 7y agoSince the location of the menu to go to other pages was a big part of the original post, I'd say in this context it's pretty relevant.
- shantly 7y ago
- jeremycw 7y agohttp://www.motherfuckingblog.com/ http://www.motherfuckingblog.com/