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-= sequoia capital =-
- aresant 17y agoFantastic. Their new site is ridiculous "look how trendy we are".
- gaborcselle 17y agoI actually think their site is pretty cool / innovative.
- webwright 17y agoSeriously?! If search engines had AI, I can see it being cool/innovative. With the current state of search technology, it's a usability disaster. Problem #1 - language. Is their portfolio page called "portfolio"? Or "companies we've invested in?" Is their contact page called "contact"? Or "Get in touch?" Do they have a blog? Searching for "blog" seems to indicate that they don't-- unless it's called something other than "blog". Search is hard and they are making their users play "guess the right search query" when a scan/browse action would be easier and less error prone. Problem #2 - scan-ability. So say I AM interest in learning more about their portfolio. Roughly what types of companies do they back (what's the search query to answer that question?)? What have they backed most recently (again, what search query?)? Who works there (a search for partners suggests "Energy (partners)")? Scanning is a huge part of web behavior. Problem #3 - discoverability. What about what I'm NOT searching for? They have some GREAT content around how to pitch VCs, what ideas are VC-worthy, etc. With a content-free page, there is a 0% chance of me learning about stuff that I didn't know I was looking for. Problem #4 - SPELLING. Take a look at their partner page (if you can find it). Are there any names there that you might have trouble spelling/searching for if you heard it at a dinner party last night? We don't have to guess with usability. What they SHOULD have done is write down 5 tasks that people might do at their site and had a few friends run a few informal tests. I'm willing to turn in my UX designer badge if my guess is wrong and this UI increases task performance speed and reduces errors. Hrm, as I consider it-- I guess your comment doesn't dispute all that. It probably can be cool, innovative, AND a usability disaster.
- mrtron 17y agoMan I love that under construction animated gif. That was a standard on all sites for so many years...
- jamesjyu 17y agoyeah, because really, when is a site not under construction??
- antidaily 17y agoI lol'd.
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- rabidsnail 17y agoIt's a webpage from the future! All of the tags are lowercase and some of them have these "style=" attributes with some weird programming language in them!
- gizmo 17y agoNo <marquee>? I'm disappointed.
- jrockway 17y agoWow, I really miss the days of black text on a gray background. * sniff
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- slyn 17y agoExpect it to make a glorious comeback because of OLEDs: http://static.arstechnica.com/amoled.jpg http://static.arstechnica.com/amoled.jpg source: http://arst.ch/60n http://arst.ch/60n
- timdorr 17y agoWow, trendy stuff. I'm going to have to start using that window.status trick they're using.
- icey 17y agoNeeds more blink.
- jonursenbach 17y agoAnd copy/pasted DHTML snowflake effects.
- tlrobinson 17y agoApparently the BLINK tag doesn't actually work in some modern browsers, so I had to reimplement it in JavaScript. If you'd like to use it on your own site, here's the code: var blinkOn = 1; window.setInterval(function() { var blinks = document.getElementsByTagName("blink"); for (var i = 0; i < blinks.length; i++) blinks[i].style.visibility = blinkOn ? "visible" : "hidden"; blinkOn ^= 1; }, 500);
- icey 17y agoWell played, sir.
- ars 17y agoJust a small note - you should not explicitly set the visibility to "visible", set it to the empty string "" instead. This way you don't overwrite the default property if it was something else. And you can skip the blinkOn variable by: blinks[i].style.visibility = blinks[i].style.visibility == "" ? "hidden" : "";
- invisible 17y agoThat's actually way slower because you're doing a comparison within an iteration. That's putting an if statement inside a loop while the result is the same for every iteration.
- ars 17y agoComputers are not that slow these days :) It reduces complexity and a global, which is far more important. And that blink loop is probably not that big - just how many blink tags do you have? I don't use it for blink loops anyway, I use it for toggle on/off, where keeping state for each element individually is pretty important.
- earle 17y agoThis is actually more informative than their current site!
- falsestprophet 17y agoAnd at least on par with their last site as I remember
- thomasswift 17y agoThe top text blinks.... Plus 1000 points
- sirech 17y agoneeds a bright green background to emphasize the tree connection.
- hughprime 17y agoWhat, and lose Netscape 1.0 support?
- nostrademons 17y agoAlso missing the punch-the-monkey banner.
- JoelSutherland 17y agoA colleague of mine wrote about agencies moving to this odd, search-style site a few months back: http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/big-ad-agency-websites-continue-to-get-worse http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/big-ad-agency-websites... It just doesn't make any sense. It's not even trendy.
- wkdown 17y agoI can understand submitting this link to Digg / Reddit / 4Chan. But why here? It's nonsense
- ars 17y agoYah, it does seem that way. It's actually a list of companies that Sequoia Capitol has invested in. So it's sort of an in joke given the startup focus this site has.
- tlrobinson 17y agoIt was actually inspired by this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772027 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772027
- kwamenum86 17y agoMany more of those companies should have gotten the "Cool" animated gif...
- whalesalad 17y agoWas spelling capital wrong part of the parody too?
- tlrobinson 17y agoYes.
- zandorg 17y agoOMG so hilarious! Budd Ugly is a classic of web design parody, except that my buddy (a hypertext legend) thought it was a real site!
- ars 17y agoDoesn't validate, you have a </P> tag - what is that? Everyone knows you don't close your <P> tags. What's that extra slash after the BR and HR? And </li>?? Since when? Where did you learn to program HTML? :)
- tlrobinson 17y agoSheesh, sorry. I fixed it, per your suggestions. Also, all tags and attributes are capitalized, and there's no quotes around attribute values.
- tlrobinson 17y agoContext: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772027 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772027
- mhartl 17y agoAwesome, but is there a reason 'capital' is misspelled 'capitol'?