Tom and Anand's Web designs

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Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
the places any more.

 

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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:33:04 -0800, samo wrote:

>
>Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
>anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
>the places any more.
>

They are pretty cluttered now, but it helps to block the
ads. Still they were better 12-24 months ago, IMO.

 

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"kony" wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:33:04 -0800, samo wrote:
>
> >
> >Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
> >anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
> >the places any more.
> >
>
> They are pretty cluttered now, but it helps to block the
> ads. Still they were better 12-24 months ago, IMO.

Aye, the worst are the animated flash advertisements, which don't stop their
distracting flashing with "ESC" like the .gifs do. It was actually Anand's
site which caused me to block flash content by default last year, in
addition to all the rest of the ads.

I didn't mind the banner ads from a few years ago, and I would actually
click on them occasionally to support the site I was at. Nowadays, though,
ads are just too obnoxious not to filter out every single one.

Jon

 

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> Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
> anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
> the places any more.

Have to agree, I find Tom's Hardware difficult to read. But it's
been that way for a long time. It's not a fun site to browse
around on. I go there when there's a specific article I hear
referred to, read it, and get out. It's an awkward, ugly site design.

 

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>> Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
>> anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
>> the places any more.
>
> When I have gone to those sites, I've usually given up because I've been
> unable to find something that I know was there. I practically never go
> there anymore unless somebody posts a link, and that doesn't seem to
> happen much either. Haven't visited either of them in months although I
> know they have many good articles there. Their search facility was
> worthless last time I tried it.

You are right on (Tom's Hardware), I've stopped going to the website on
a regular basis, because it seems so unorganized...disjointed. Used to
go there all the time, now I only stop in once every couple of months.

Mark

 

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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:54:02 GMT, Kram <BB@King.com> wrote:

>
>>> Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
>>> anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
>>> the places any more.

>> When I have gone to those sites, I've usually given up because I've been
>> unable to find something that I know was there. I practically never go
>> there anymore unless somebody posts a link, and that doesn't seem to
>> happen much either. Haven't visited either of them in months although I
>> know they have many good articles there. Their search facility was
>> worthless last time I tried it.

>You are right on (Tom's Hardware), I've stopped going to the website on
>a regular basis, because it seems so unorganized...disjointed. Used to
>go there all the time, now I only stop in once every couple of months.

I found interesting to read how web designers see themselves.

'...we should be up top having a say and influencing where the road
leads. This is essential as the role of the Web Designer is changing
rapidly. We have a lot of responsibility and pressure, yet not enough
credit. As the Web grows and evolves, we are the ones holding it
together; we weave the Web.'
'On the positive, inspirational side, we are important, needed; in
fact, we are crucial to this profound movement.'

Comment by Michael A 12/20/04 @ 9:22 am

http://www.molly.com/2004/12/18/web-design-world-cool-down/


Geo

 

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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:48:53 GMT, "GEO" Me@home.here wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:54:02 GMT, Kram <BB@King.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
>>>> anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
>>>> the places any more.
>
>>> When I have gone to those sites, I've usually given up because I've been
>>> unable to find something that I know was there. I practically never go
>>> there anymore unless somebody posts a link, and that doesn't seem to
>>> happen much either. Haven't visited either of them in months although I
>>> know they have many good articles there. Their search facility was
>>> worthless last time I tried it.
>
>>You are right on (Tom's Hardware), I've stopped going to the website on
>>a regular basis, because it seems so unorganized...disjointed. Used to
>>go there all the time, now I only stop in once every couple of months.
>
> I found interesting to read how web designers see themselves.
>
>'...we should be up top having a say and influencing where the road
>leads. This is essential as the role of the Web Designer is changing
>rapidly. We have a lot of responsibility and pressure, yet not enough
>credit. As the Web grows and evolves, we are the ones holding it
>together; we weave the Web.'
>'On the positive, inspirational side, we are important, needed; in
>fact, we are crucial to this profound movement.'
>
>Comment by Michael A 12/20/04 @ 9:22 am
>
>http://www.molly.com/2004/12/18/web-design-world-cool-down/
>
>
> Geo

Yeah, that's nothing. Back during the dot.com boom in SF, you'd see
all these people in coffee shops yapping away about how great they've
got it. They weren't programmers or web designers, THEY were
Producers. THEY supposedly helped and directed the poor little people
who actually did the work. One was telling someone they should get
into it, ..."you don't have to know anything"

Die Yuppie SCUM.

 

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big_ears wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:48:53 GMT, "GEO" Me@home.here wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:54:02 GMT, Kram <BB@King.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>>> Anyone else hardly ever read Tom's Hardware or Anand's websites
> >>>> anymore ? I go there and the HTML/web design is so bad I can't stand
> >>>> the places any more.
> >
> >>> When I have gone to those sites, I've usually given up because I've been
> >>> unable to find something that I know was there. I practically never go
> >>> there anymore unless somebody posts a link, and that doesn't seem to
> >>> happen much either. Haven't visited either of them in months although I
> >>> know they have many good articles there. Their search facility was
> >>> worthless last time I tried it.
> >
> >>You are right on (Tom's Hardware), I've stopped going to the website on
> >>a regular basis, because it seems so unorganized...disjointed. Used to
> >>go there all the time, now I only stop in once every couple of months.
> >
> > I found interesting to read how web designers see themselves.
> >
> >'...we should be up top having a say and influencing where the road
> >leads. This is essential as the role of the Web Designer is changing
> >rapidly. We have a lot of responsibility and pressure, yet not enough
> >credit. As the Web grows and evolves, we are the ones holding it
> >together; we weave the Web.'
> >'On the positive, inspirational side, we are important, needed; in
> >fact, we are crucial to this profound movement.'
> >
> >Comment by Michael A 12/20/04 @ 9:22 am
> >
> >http://www.molly.com/2004/12/18/web-design-world-cool-down/
> >
> >
> > Geo
>
> Yeah, that's nothing. Back during the dot.com boom in SF, you'd see
> all these people in coffee shops yapping away about how great they've
> got it. They weren't programmers or web designers, THEY were
> Producers. THEY supposedly helped and directed the poor little people
> who actually did the work. One was telling someone they should get
> into it, ..."you don't have to know anything"
>
> Die Yuppie SCUM.

"Web Designer". Is that the crowd MS gets it's developers from?

When I want a better looking web site, I just windex my monitor.

Bryan