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These websites have no individual identity, they all look the same.

• master-lincoln 3y ago
  This probably says more about yourself than these websites. Identity should go beyond visuals...
  • lexicality 3y ago
    Unfortunately the web is a visual medium and humans evolved to identify things with their eyes. Unless your audience is entirely the blind and partially sighted, visual identity is pretty important
    • krapp 3y ago
      True hackers only read the web directly as source files fetched by CUrl and opened in Nano anyway. Only normies need anything more than their minds to "parse" or "compile" source.
    • bcrosby95 3y ago
      Most books get by with a cover and hundreds of pages of only text.
      • lexicality 3y ago
        I have a bookshelf of books next to me and the only ones with even slightly similar spines are books in the same series, not to speak of the covers. I opened a couple of text heavy ones and they all had different font choices and minor variations on page layout. Most of them had elaborate and unique chapter headings. Book typesetting is a fascinating subject, I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. (Maybe we'd have less Helvetica spaffed all over the internet!)
        • kkoncevicius 3y ago
          > I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious. To me, paradoxically, it reached a point where my subconscious associates light or poor typography with serious material, and pretty web pages with empty ad-ridden content: Serious vibe: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html Intermediate vibe: https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-media.html https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-med... Empty content vibe: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebooklm-tailwind-ai-notes https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebookl...
        • GoblinSlayer 3y ago
          Ebooks used to be plain text files, it worked well.
• innocenat 3y ago
  You can use table, bgcolor, <font> etc. Or worse, images in tables. Just like the old day.
  • jjgreen 3y ago
    Needn't be in a table, you can still get supercool effects https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/raggedfloat/demo.html https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/raggedfloat/demo.html
    • innocenat 3y ago
      Then you can't join the no CSS club.
  • psnehanshu 3y ago
    Yes, but then just use CSS.
• pier25 3y ago
  Content provides identity too.
  • psnehanshu 3y ago
    Yes, but only half
    • pier25 3y ago
      You think the content of a newspaper or a blog is only half the identity? I'd say it's probably more like 99%.