Transmission
August 21, 2001 1:23 PM Subscribe
posted by cell divide at 1:32 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by gunr at 1:36 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by gimli at 1:40 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by Hackworth at 1:41 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by chrisege at 1:46 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by Hackworth at 1:48 PM on August 21, 2001
mmmmmmmm...bbq
posted by Hackworth at 1:50 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by mrbula at 1:54 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by tiaka at 1:54 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by wenham at 1:55 PM on August 21, 2001
"The graphic design was average" -- check out the gallery by Phuct (I think that's his name); very cool "pornograffitti". Reminded me of the Gorillaz - which may or may not be a good thing.
I found Transmission, as my expletive implied above, to be both good-looking, possessed with content, and above all, different. And while some of you may be content to maintain Praystation as your singular source for design originality in a world of Georgia, Verdana, transparencies and ooh! sentences without capital letters, I for one am willing to applaud a site that does something I haven't seen before, regardless of its [several] flaws. The Second Coming of Metafilter it ain't, but ban it from the 'Net? I mean honestly!
Thanks for the link, Andrew.
posted by Marquis at 2:06 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by D at 2:18 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by wenham at 2:26 PM on August 21, 2001
Generated unrequested popups - check.
Spurred a plug-in without my request/knowledge - check.
Completely bogged my system for longer than 5 secs. - check.
Boldface, all caps note warning me not to consider visiting the site ever again - check.
posted by Dreama at 2:35 PM on August 21, 2001
it's like opening a design magazine and having it blow up in your hand
If only they could make a pop-music magazine that did the very same and give it away free. Now that'd be progress. I'd bribe them to put a 10 second delay on the mechanism by taking out a first-page advert. Coming soon: Exploding TV's for anyone who watches more than an hours worth of adverts per day.
posted by Kino at 2:46 PM on August 21, 2001
Boo.
posted by Jairus at 2:46 PM on August 21, 2001
That said, I wish I had time to keep up with all these sites. I wouldn't have minded terribly browsing through this one further, but it seems every "design/portfolio/magazine/etc" site presents the user with navigational challenges, rather than aids. And while it's always an enjoyable experience to figure them out, it's fairly time-consuming.
ie. I have no patience, unfortunately.
posted by fishfucker at 2:52 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by mrbula at 3:38 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by lotsofno at 4:59 PM on August 21, 2001
posted by andrew cooke at 12:20 AM on August 22, 2001
I temporarily added this linked site to my trusted sites zone just to see what the fuss was about, and immediately regretted it. Thank god for task manager; one quick "End Process" and all that nonsense disappears (including it not saving any resized window settings!). While I can admire the effort to push boundaries of site navigation and look, in practice the site has all the lousy features of porn popups and bad site design (yet another reason to toggle those IE settings to disable javascript, folks). I have no idea what the site was about, or what content it might have had, because it gave me the same first impression of a phone solicitor calling you at dinner time. Not generally a good first impression to make on visitors to your site.
posted by hincandenza at 2:44 AM on August 22, 2001
That said, I didn't like the site— not merely because it has wacky JS and DHTML, but that it is boring and didn't make an effort to hold my interest beyond playing with lots of pointless pop-ups. A personal creed of mine is to not force anyone's browser to take the form of my own visions. If what you want to present isn't flexible enough to fit in a web page, or even within a Flash document, you're in the wrong medium.
Transmission isn't a total waste, but it has far too many web hijinx than I'm willing to put up with (and I visit SurfStation regularly). It's "Flashturbation" without even using Flash. I don't expect every Web site to be a navigational dream (nice totalitarian position there, chrisege!), but when a site starts screwing with—or even disabling—people's windows and tools they use to navigate (the toolbar, cursor, key commands, etc.), they should expect a lot of irritation from their visitors.
1st time poster, BTW...
posted by Down10 at 11:30 PM on August 24, 2001
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