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New radio blogging startup displays scrolling tutorial as homepage
- leonbuchard 14y agoOne of the greatest landing page i've ever seen.
- Straubiz 14y agovery neat UI.
- kiiski 14y agoI personally found it terrible. It didn't completely fit in the small window I opened it in at first (the "scroll down" text was not visible), and when I made it full screen, most of the screen was just white (and the flying elements weren't even hidden outside the actual view area). If you scroll it with the mouse wheel, or spacebar, it just looks ugly. It didn't even advice you to scroll in the right way.
- handelaar 14y agoThe "scroll down" text isn't visible here either. Full-screen Chrome, 1440x900.
- bluespice 14y agoOne of the worst cases of overusing parallax scrolling I've ever seen. Edit: parallax/tacky, call it what you wish. I was thinking of this while writing the comment: http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/ http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/ (note: every great thing can be ruined my misuse, I like that library.)
- spolu 14y agoI think there is no parallax in there...
- imaan988 14y agoI agree, but people really should expand on why when they say things like this. I can only imagine that this website was designed by someone using a Macbook (or Magic Trackpad), without realising that not everyone can scroll easily with two fingers, which is extremely short sighted. I have a MBP myself, and I actually enjoyed scrolling through the site, but when I tested it on my Windows PC the animation was jerky and I had to scroll more than I would've liked, overall unenjoyable. I would've closed the page half way through reading and never looked back. Yes, Mac's are awesome, but web designers need to remember that they're not designing for themselves, they're designing to every conceivable person in their target market. Scrolling like this is great, but only in short bursts (Unless you're on a Mac w/ trackpad).
- spolu 14y agoThat's an interesting perspective. Nice to remember that, when designing UI/web pages!
- novalis 14y agoOn a windows pc it works real smooth with the mouse wheel scroll or mouse wheel click plus mouse moved under mouse wheel clicked target. Do you have a mouse wheel on your windows pc mouse ? Also, that mac must really be awesome because I don't get any parallax scrolling on windows or linux.
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- bluespice 14y agoDepends on browser and mouse settings (smooth scrolling on/off). However the animation and rendering is just very slow for me on Chrome + quad, about 5-10 FPS. I won't even try on Android. This could have been greatly improved by using CSS3 animations, there's even a drop-in jquery library that makes this an easy fix: http://ricostacruz.com/jquery.transit/ http://ricostacruz.com/jquery.transit/ With that said, the effect is overused and tacky. Message could have been delivered more quickly and elegantly. I felt as if visiting that link was just a waste of time, like watching an old movie I've seen and looking for changes in subtitles.
- llorca 14y agoExcept there's no parallax.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoIn general I find parallax scrolling to be an absolutely infuriating user experience. Very low FPS, jerky, and I have to repeatedly stress out my index finger spinning the scroll wheel.
- Xion 14y agoThe idea seems pretty redundant (Last.fm anyone?) but the landing page is just awesome!
- flux_w42 14y agoOnly login with Facebook == close page and forget about it.
- julien_c 14y agoI have to agree it'd be cool to be able to try the app without the Facebook install
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoAgreed. Facebook signin -> barf. If they want early adopters, they shouldn't rely on facebook signin.
- Roch 14y agovery nice idea
- hackNightly 14y agoI don't think it's terrible, it's a simple JQuery plugin designed to do exactly what it's doing. However, I will say that this type of layout for the purpose of a tutorial isn't the best idea. It requires too much interaction, and IMHO a tutorial should be more of a passive experience.
- matthieurouif 14y agoIt's really a creative idea, not obvious for everyone though
- Pierrelouis 14y agoAwwwwsome homepage!
- martind81 14y agoReally cool and refreshing landing page.
- lukedjn 14y agosounds like a worse alternative to http://plug.dj http://plug.dj
- jot 14y agoOther than the scrolling tutorial, how is this better than http://mixlr.com http://mixlr.com?
- swayfm 14y agoSeems like it's not "live", so you can post tracks and people can listen later. You don't need to be doing both at the same time.
- florianmonfrini 14y agoOn Phonoblaster it's actually "live" but your music selection is being broadcast on a continuous loop and not just once, so yes people can listen to it later.
- swayfm 14y agoSeems like it's not "live", so you can post tracks and people can listen later. You don't need to be doing both at the same time.
- rhl 14y agoThe fact that people react so strongly to this means he's onto something. Also, there is no parallax scrolling here. Besides, this is a very nice direction for web design to move toward. The product itself is simple, nice, well executed, with a clearly framed value proposition. Kudos. Keep working on this.
- haunted 14y agoNot sure what I'm supposed to be seeing, because it doesn't work at all in Safari on my iPad running iOS 5.1.1, in either portrait or landscape orientation.