Jump to content
House Price Crash Forum

Bloomberg Wtf Have They Done To The Site?


Recommended Posts

0
HOLA441
1
HOLA442
2
HOLA443
3
HOLA444
4
HOLA445
5
HOLA446

Speaking as someone who earns a living from making websites:

All the web agencies seem to have gone full-tilt for these responsive website with big fonts, Fisher Price graphics, and stupid little animations.

They look crap.

Technologies like custom fonts and responsive websites have only recently matured enough to go mainstream, and designers are adamant that they must be used everwhere. They're like kids on Christmas morning.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking that there must be good a business opportunity for a company selling clean websites that privileges content over space, with a more sensible-sized font, and no animations or auto-playing videos.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

6
HOLA447
7
HOLA448
8
HOLA449
9
HOLA4410

Turned to utter crap, just like the Guardian. As someone with responsibility for website design at my place, no doubt I will now be getting buttonholed about making ours look as "smart" as these abominations. I blame Apple, Google and Microsoft for this trend towards ugly user-unfriendly flat graphics and horrible colour palettes everywhere.

Responsive design is actually a good thing - but I'm really not sure most designers get it judging by the results. Custom fonts, however, are the devil's work. Usually someone insists a print font must be used on-screen - no matter how inappropriate for consistency with brand guidelines (usually written by someone with no clue about on-screen design).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

10
HOLA4411
11
HOLA4412
12
HOLA4413
13
HOLA4414

touch screen friendly.

Exactly.

They are all adapting their sites to make them IPad friendly.

The problem is they are completely forgetting about the desktop/laptop PC users.

I guess in the meeja world they don't use laptops any more, they all have Ipads these days...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14
HOLA4415
15
HOLA4416

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.




×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information