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This is not unconventional-- this is the conventional web I want. I want the internet to be a groovy place again. Rave on ravers.

jadbox 1y ago
It is neat, but personally I'm not wild about it. Most of these examples are terrible for accessibility needs, and otherwise a frustration if you visited to find specific information. I do appreciate the novelty though.
- AfterHIA 1y ago
  I think that it might be good-- taking a queue from the legacy of, "markup is separated from presentation" that sites that display information in a straightforward way should be, "boring and accessible as fuck" where, "conveying abstract information" should be, "inspiring." I feel like we can have our cake and eat it too.
aho15 1y ago
Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might work or what causes a lot of attention.
- dylan604 1y ago
  reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to feel like square pegs in a round hole.
  - Animats 1y ago
    It does feel a lot like the Flash era. Girbaud, which was once a cool clothing brand, had an all-Flash site for years. It looked like a 3D stack of cubes, and if you clicked on the cubes, interesting things happened. Short videos and pictures would pop up, audio clips would play, and then they'd fold back into their cubes. Very cute. But it was really hard to order stuff. Just finding out where the items for sale were was tough. Their site today is totally vanilla. They have product pages and "Add to Cart" buttons, like everybody else.[1] [1] https://www.girbaud.com/en https://www.girbaud.com/en
ccbbccbb 1y ago
amen brother

jadbox 1y ago

It is neat, but personally I'm not wild about it. Most of these examples are terrible for accessibility needs, and otherwise a frustration if you visited to find specific information. I do appreciate the novelty though.

AfterHIA 1y ago
I think that it might be good-- taking a queue from the legacy of, "markup is separated from presentation" that sites that display information in a straightforward way should be, "boring and accessible as fuck" where, "conveying abstract information" should be, "inspiring." I feel like we can have our cake and eat it too.

aho15 1y ago

Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might work or what causes a lot of attention.

dylan604 1y ago
reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to feel like square pegs in a round hole.
- Animats 1y ago
  It does feel a lot like the Flash era. Girbaud, which was once a cool clothing brand, had an all-Flash site for years. It looked like a 3D stack of cubes, and if you clicked on the cubes, interesting things happened. Short videos and pictures would pop up, audio clips would play, and then they'd fold back into their cubes. Very cute. But it was really hard to order stuff. Just finding out where the items for sale were was tough. Their site today is totally vanilla. They have product pages and "Add to Cart" buttons, like everybody else.[1] [1] https://www.girbaud.com/en https://www.girbaud.com/en

ccbbccbb 1y ago

amen brother