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Web design has gotten too complicated. I really enjoy a simple site that focuses on content and readability vs fancy frameworks. There are sites still online fr
by JCM9 1y ago
Web design has gotten too complicated. I really enjoy a simple site that focuses on content and readability vs fancy frameworks. There are sites still online from the 90s that looks better than much of the stuff produced today. Plus keeping it basic means your site will work well and look good forever.
Remember all those nonsense Flash intros sites used to have? For whatever reason restaurants were the worst at this (probably because consultants building these sites impressed the owner with “fancy stuff”). They were horrible… like just show me your friggin menu and don’t make we watch a 30 second nonsense intro to your website.
The modern version of that are these horrible single page templates that everyone uses where you just keep scrolling and scrolling and the “menu” is just taking you to different parts of this scroll-o-rama nonsense. I’ll take basic with good content over fancy design all day long.
- qingcharles 1y agoI would counter that. I would say (good) web design has gotten simpler in the 32 years I've been doing it. The last few years where the browsers all started to cooperate on standards has made life a lot easier. CSS has gotten smaller because of better selectors, and HTML is simpler and more readable thanks to more semantic tags. The div soups you see on sites like Facebook are obviously another story :)