MetaFilter posts tagged with webdesign and brokenlink

Gone Black?

DragonBoy — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:37:46 -0800

Web sites protest by going black. A little over 100 web sites have bandied together to go black on this international day of protest. Some with interesting art, some with personal notes and others with strong words. Are there other web protests going on that you've heard of? Links?

mathowie — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:15:29 -0800

Bom is some sort of project management company, but I'm more impressed by their whiz-bang cool design on their site. Kinda like the HabboHotel, Eboy (their town), and k10k aesthetic taken corporate.

luser — Tue, 07 May 2002 11:42:58 -0800

The Magnifier. What a great way to present visual detail and overview at the same time. Why can't Mapquest do this?

Su — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 14:42:52 -0800

Interesting The guy who wrote Your CSS Bores Me(previously linked and discussed here) has decided to accept his own challenge. For the month of February, he will be applying a different stylesheet to the index page of his site, with no manipulation of the HTML document itself. This is one to watch, if you're also a code geek.

grumblebee — Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:06:31 -0800

The biggest web design myth is that screen graphics should be 72dpi. Sorry if this counts as a self-link (it's a long discussion that I sparked on a forum devoted to a vector graphics app called Xara), but I thought it might interest designers & programmers here.

mathowie — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:48:32 -0800

Design Not Found is 37signals' latest work. They highlight the very best and worst of online contingency design, the design of pages presented to users when things go wrong. It's looking like it could quickly become a killer resource for users to report examples and web application designers to learn from those.

SilentSalamander — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 07:42:43 -0800

One of the most amusing Javascript special effects I've seen in a long time; brought to you by Nestea Phillipines. What other Javascript tricks brought a smile to your face?

Su — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:14:48 -0800

GINORMOUS banner ad at download.com. From what I can tell, it only auto-expands on the first visit, presumably cookied, but I was still pretty annoyed. If you click to view, it blows up again, runs a little commercial at you(sndtrk by Madonna), and shrinks again. A little better than the layout-destroying monoliths other sites are using?

dangerman — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:11:13 -0800

I Forgot about Grey Day did anyone else?

andrew cooke — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:23:20 -0800

Transmission - this is the best (storming use of bog standard - works in Netscape - javascript) site I've seen in ages (via Shift via Play with the Machine) (warning: I'm no web designer, so you trendy people in black out there are free to tell me this is tired old cliche).

icathing — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:57:57 -0800

Clippings is the GPL-ed code behind IHT's news-clip feature, which has been discussed on MetaFilter before. This is very cool code and I think any site with many front page links could benefit from it. Serendipitously found at smokinggun, which is not the smoking gun.

jcterminal — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:31:47 -0800

When arrogant web-masters attack. First it was specifying browsers, then came specifying screen dimensions, and now...

Ok if you are having trouble reading my text on my site, i do appologize. But i cannot customize for the entire world!... I dont have a problem reading my text and neither do most people. Like i said before usually adjusting your contrast helps tons. Unless you are one of the few "important" people out there who have your contrast already set to some "wysiwhatchamacallitwig" or whatever :). And for those people there is yet a solution for you 2! ... read the view source. :).

joeclark — Mon, 04 Jun 2001 11:43:55 -0800

“Nobody needs information architects anymore” “His problem, he figures, is simple: Nobody needs information architects anymore. The entire discipline was overly specialized, a hologram created by temporarily explosive demand for Web-site design, which vanished last year.” (Link sometimes worked and sometimes did not over the course of ten trials in three browsers. ROBMagazine.com → Table of contents → “Crash Test Dummies” will get you there.)

jasonepowell — Fri, 11 May 2001 14:08:16 -0800

Yet another design rip-off. This really bugs me. I have no problem with sites stealing layout and code, but actual graphics should be a no-no.

hijinx — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:29:48 -0800

Warning: useless Flash, animated GIFs, slow loading, annoying, buzzing, warped up piece of work. [Requires Flash and Pepto Bismol to view.] Even though this is a site for a radio station, I figured something was amiss when I was scared to click past the splash page...

cfj — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:12:14 -0800

The Web Page from Hell. Be sure to look at the client list.

jmcnally — Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:14:55 -0800

Powazek on Metafilter Not sure if this has been posted before, but I just found it on a new sub-site of Communication Arts that appears to be more focussed on web design. Derek is writing a book on online communities, but I still got the impression that the interviewer didn't know who he was.

barbelith — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:21:12 -0800

Wanted: Web Designer for 'egg': must like startlingly honest employers who don't beat about the bush.

rschram — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:08:06 -0800

This by far is the all-time worst use of flash ever. Boring, long, and utterly unimportant. It blows -- the competition away!

baylink — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:19:34 -0800

Greenspun on Neilsen. Damn if that don't sound like the Thrilla in Manila. I just stumbled over this piece on ArsDigita's Systems Journal site, formerly Web Tools Review. If you enjoy watching one so-called expert pick apart the opinions of another, you'll probably enjoy this. If you're sick unto death of both of them... skip it.

jkottke — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:30:49 -0800

Steal a design, win an award. Sumerset Custom Houseboats won several awards in the 2000 Inc. Magazine Web Awards 2000, including the top prize in the General Excellence category. According to a company press release, the site was chosen for its "simple, functional, yet elegant design". The only problem is, they stole the design from IBM's site.

Brilliantcrank — Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:36:22 -0800

marchFirst circles the bowl... Too bad. I thought it would be cool to work for them but now analyst are predicting the demise of the company. I wonder if they will have a great deals on Macs when they go bankrupt?

patricking — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:39:09 -0800

what will be supported now that browsers are a-changin' again? handy resource from a Netscape product manager.

NickBarat — Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:38:28 -0800

Did anybody else notice that? Speaking on behalf of .com design interns everywhere, there's really no incentive to try and come up with hot graphics - ours is a thankless job. However, there's still no excuse to be completely lame.

fatbaq — Thu, 02 Nov 2000 06:12:34 -0800

10.am redesigns...but forgets to use the spell checker.