Your Old Crap Website -
This blog is to celebrate the time when web design wasn’t limited by web standards and convention, and when the office geek was given full reign to set up the website on his own since the bosses probably couldn’t see the point in having one.
posted by Artw
on Apr 24, 2010 -
45 comments
Finding Species is an organization that integrates science, photography, and design to create standardized methods of photo-documenting
plants and
animals, for use in print and web field guides, educational exhibits, and conservation campaigns.
posted by owhydididoit
on Nov 9, 2006 -
2 comments
The BBC's News website has undergone a re-design. The primary change is the switch from using a 640x480 based design to a 800x600 design. BBC News Online's Editor-in-Chief explains their reasons for the change
here.
What do MeFi users think of the re-design? Personally, I find it's a little CNN-esque and I'm not totally convinced.
posted by metaxa
on Feb 19, 2003 -
38 comments
Is the BBCi website far too big and monopolistic? Editorial from 'The Guardian' discussing whether the BBC's website, funded by the British license fee is taking the thunder away from commercial websites worldwide trying to achieve the same results in advertising run market place. There is some logic to the argument -- when e-marketing revenues are dwingling how can some sites compete with this bohemoth? On the other hand, if they were achieving the same results people would be going to them instead, and the BBC's website is very, very good in some places, indispensible in others.
posted by feelinglistless
on Jan 6, 2003 -
23 comments
If you crow about your redesign, claiming your site is now "better-looking and easier to use" (and not, say, "sludgy as Hotmail and nearly as ugly"), and you offer a
graphical tour to "show you how all these slick new features work", the link to which is a 404, are you the stupidest monopoly around?
Just wondering.
posted by textist
on Oct 29, 2001 -
26 comments
The Froggy Page was the
Cool Site of the Day from August 8, 1994. It's the oldest site archived there without the disclaimer, "site no longer live". The page sure looks like it was built in '94 -- not even a single table! (Can anyone who was coding back then confirm if the code is really that old?) Does anyone have a favorite site from those good old days?
posted by mattpfeff
on Sep 27, 2001 -
36 comments
The new Webmonkey redesign is slick. Liquid width, CSS positioned boxes (hacked z-index and negative margins to get those overlapping boxes is my guess), easter eggs on the logo, and now a frontdoor split based on skill level. Although this design doesn't lend itself well to their more text heavy subpages, I'd prefer to see a bit more integration than the new on the front and old look inside (the splash of white from every link off the main page is a bit much).
posted by mathowie
on May 9, 2001 -
32 comments
Two of the biggest tech news sites seem to be coming up a little short in the creativity department.
ZDNet and
CNet News have both been redesigned recently, and their new similarities are astounding. Worse still, they both now feature
huge,
ugly ads (which we're supposed to "explore") that completely overwhelm the page.
posted by fraying
on Jan 25, 2001 -
24 comments
I like
this site, but it looks an awful lot like
this other site. Have you no respect for the property of others, Stewart? Must you steal to make yourself feel good?
posted by ericost
on Sep 20, 2000 -
29 comments
The Burning Man website has undergone a massive redesign, it seems. Much better than before, and with only 12 days left to BM2K. I could cry, really... I can't make it this year, nor did I make it to
Defcon,
H2K, or any other gather.
Bring back stories from the fire for me, people.
posted by Jairus
on Aug 15, 2000 -
10 comments
