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Why do I have to scroll down not one, but two whole window heights below the fold to be able to see the opening line of the article. What does an irrelevant sun

Why do I have to scroll down not one, but two whole window heights below the fold to be able to see the opening line of the article. What does an irrelevant sunset have to Wordpress? I think the author could take a few design cues from Paul Graham's blog or from Craigslist. In fact, perhaps if he wasn't wasting his storage space with pretty but giant and irrelevant photos, the reduction in storage space wouldn't be as much of an issue.

seszett 5y ago
On the contrary, a picture of a sunset is actually very relevant to the article. It is the author's unwritten answer to the question they ask in the article title.
tuwtuwtuwtuw 5y ago
I went to PaulGraham.com. There was a menu on the left so I clicked on some item and ended up on Amazon.com. I clicked back and the next thing I clicked took me to ycombinator.com. On my PC the menu is so small I can barely read the text, I think because he uses a gif as a menu combined with an image map. Wtf. On the main page there's some images without clear purpose and links with the titles "Taste", "Smart" and "Weird". No idea what that is about. I opened the site on my phone and it renders the page in the upper left corner and I have to zoom in to see what it shows. Is this the site which you think he should take design cues from? In my view the PaulGraham.com site is a complete train wreck.
panicpanicpanic 5y ago
I can't find any other media files on that site and the one in use weighs 900 kB. Doesn't seem like a big deal.
r2222 5y ago
Here’s a screenshot of paulgraham.com: https://ibb.co/zmmyZHH https://ibb.co/zmmyZHH This is legitimately the worst looking and confusing site I’ve seen in a while, and should be used as an example of how to not design a site :) Even the blog post themselves are pretty bad with left-aligned columns and the most low-contrast header (the “P A U L G R A H A M”) on the top. It looks like some sort of CSS mishap rather than something deliberately designed.
- LordAtlas 5y ago
  It's straight out of 1998.
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seszett 5y ago

On the contrary, a picture of a sunset is actually very relevant to the article. It is the author's unwritten answer to the question they ask in the article title.

tuwtuwtuwtuw 5y ago

I went to PaulGraham.com. There was a menu on the left so I clicked on some item and ended up on Amazon.com. I clicked back and the next thing I clicked took me to ycombinator.com. On my PC the menu is so small I can barely read the text, I think because he uses a gif as a menu combined with an image map. Wtf. On the main page there's some images without clear purpose and links with the titles "Taste", "Smart" and "Weird". No idea what that is about. I opened the site on my phone and it renders the page in the upper left corner and I have to zoom in to see what it shows. Is this the site which you think he should take design cues from? In my view the PaulGraham.com site is a complete train wreck.

panicpanicpanic 5y ago

I can't find any other media files on that site and the one in use weighs 900 kB. Doesn't seem like a big deal.

r2222 5y ago

Here’s a screenshot of paulgraham.com: https://ibb.co/zmmyZHH https://ibb.co/zmmyZHH This is legitimately the worst looking and confusing site I’ve seen in a while, and should be used as an example of how to not design a site :) Even the blog post themselves are pretty bad with left-aligned columns and the most low-contrast header (the “P A U L G R A H A M”) on the top. It looks like some sort of CSS mishap rather than something deliberately designed.

LordAtlas 5y ago
It's straight out of 1998.

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