MetaFilter posts tagged with webdesign and websites

Don Mueller, Single Guy!

VelvetHellvis — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:53:37 -0800

Don Mueller's interests include single women, video production and radio/TV announcing. The fifty-something Colorado bachelor is "secretly famous" and a member of Mensa. Don debates why he's not attracted to fat women, takes lessons in flirting and provides statistical proof as to why he's still single. Don even hits a first date home run with the help of Old School Hollywood royalty! In the days of well-designed and well-written weblogs, this is one of a disappearing breed of personal websites that will be missed (albeit in an ironic kinda way).

nyc.gov revamped

liam — Mon, 05 May 2003 12:58:00 -0800

New York City's official website has been revamped. What are the good, and bad, models of a municipal site?

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?

Feng Shui for Web Designers

oissubke — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:53:28 -0800

Feng Shui for Web Designers Contains such helpful tidbits as "Macromedia Flash encourages curvy images and is therefore blessed with positive chi" and "The messy dithering of colours that occurs with JPEG compression is bad feng shui."

optimal web design

trismegisto — Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:38:47 -0800

criteria for optimal web design. i found this site very useful, if you're into web design and development; although it seems focused to the beginner (because of the Q&A layout), it has very useful information

Omar Zabir's Portal

i_am_joe's_spleen — Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:37:43 -0800

Omar Zabir's Portal. It's a DHTML/Javascript tour de force. But is it for real, or a subtle joke? (IE only, I'm afraid, but worth booting Windows for).

aniretac — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:58:10 -0800

The 5k entries are now viewable ...and boy are some of them amazing! 5k chess games, 5k pornography, 5k mandelbrot sets, even a bunch of 5k Flash movies...fantastic. Leave last year's entries in the dust. (a MetaFilter password works for login.)

fraying — Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:02:29 -0800

Invasion of the Usability Experts! It's about time someone said this, and I'm glad it was Dale. [ via kottke, where another conversation is going on ]

williamtry — Sat, 09 Dec 2000 09:43:57 -0800

5k site debuts ...and it's awesome. Stewart, Eric and Matt have obviously collaborated well on this project.
It really whets my appetite for the TicketStubs site, which I'm really looking forward to, aren't you?

barbelith — Thu, 23 Nov 2000 05:26:09 -0800

Overpaid, anal-retentive web usability expert puts himself out of a job? Or perhaps engages in second-round of funding to maintain astonishing levels of frankly unfathomable self-publicity? You might think so, but I couldn't possibly comment.

shmuel — Mon, 08 May 2000 14:51:47 -0800

Readers prefer text over graphics. In much more scientific news a new study by Stanford University indicates that visitors to your website are significantly more likely to read the text on your website (92%) than look at your photos (64%). What do you think? Will this change the way you design your site?

sylloge — Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:48:39 -0800

M-W redesigns but doesn't actually improve the site. One curious (read: irritating) thing -- if you are currently looking at a definition (with the definition tab highlighted) and you click on the thesaurus tab, it doesn't automagically look up the same word in the thesaurus. It just gives a new search box. Dumb.