• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    That is a good definition. As an ex-website designer, I hate the new formats with their bloated flow and flashy appearance while the content is everywhere. Give me some tables and preloaded image sizes so the page loads fast and stops jumping all over the place.

    And they all look the same. Maybe because everyone just grabs the same template and there aren’t any out there actually trying new looks.

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      19 hours ago

      YES! THANK YOU! I fucking hate these new website that look like they cost a million dollars to design, but they don’t function for crap, it’s hard to find the information I need, it jumps around while different “features” load, and keeps doing unexpected things while I scroll or hover over stuff.

      Give me a nice, clear side bar with submenus that make it easy to find what I’m looking for, and pages that load quickly and behave statically until I click on something.

      Fuck this emphasis on “modern” design. That’s just a bunch of self-fellating rich people getting off on marketing and sales pitches while ignoring user experience…

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      18 hours ago

      I cannot explain the amount of rage I experience when a website makes my scrollwheel do anything other than simply scrolling down, i.e. scrolling sideways or needlessly trying to do cool animations that just end up looking like shit

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 hours ago

      “just use tailwind” or any of the premade shit. It’s everywhere. Everything looks the same. I hate it.

      No one wants to design a website anymore. They just want to make one as fast as possible.

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      2 days ago

      As a current web developer I’m with you except for the tables. I hate tables with a burning, fiery passion.

      I do like responsive design to account for mobile, tablet, and desktop so I try to blend that with classic “just works / just here for the data” layouts and generally minimize the flash in favor of the content. In other words, my projects go to a lot of work to look that simple lol.

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        I know, divs are better, and I did use them once they came about. But tables were what you used back in the beginning, had to.

        I appreciate responsive design, there’s some brilliant things out there. And I got out just as the whole smart phone thing started, and THAT was a nightmare that made the browser wars simple by comparison.

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          I remember tables, if you made the webpages in Publisher it would be tables all the way. I tought it was quite the thing back then, I guess 20-25 years ago?