What an outdated concept of building a website. The only reason behind using images for text is not having the license for the proper font.
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Why is website design so awful today, generally?
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But some of the biggest issues I personally see would seem to have nothing to do with responsive design...and nothing to do with "unnecessary uniqueness at the expense of instant familiarity."
Low contrast thin font on white backgrounds...text as buttons...no positive confirmation of what's "selected"....tiny tap/touch points (especially when text is used as buttons) are completely covered by the fingertip so you're not sure if it's pressed or not and sometimes have to repeatedly re-rap...
I agree so much. Jony's pushing minimalist hardware tactics (that work for hardware) onto software. we're still recovering.
Me too. And I agree with everything you said. Forced unnecessary innovation, just to have something different. Happens all over. Look at BMW, Lexus, and Audi grilles. Mostly horrendous caricatures of past classic, elegant designs which were deemed "tired" I assume.
The sites I work with are pretty fast.
We don’t use lots of images, other stuff is made small as well. And they work great on mobiles. Where it gets difficult is the authoring load on a huge platform with a lot of people on doing work and publishing lots of content. You really have to be efficient in your development.
Also agree text should be text, never images. It’s also easier to update for the web authors when it isn’t an image.
You can use Google lighthouse to measure your page loading speed - the fast it is - the better your page rank will be.
And I think that is important.
Thinking of people in developing countries they often have bad phone reception below 3G standard so minimalism is good in a way. Using ultra-thin fonts in web design is a bad decision - I agree.
And I think that is important.
Thinking of people in developing countries they often have bad phone reception below 3G standard so minimalism is good in a way. Using ultra-thin fonts in web design is a bad decision - I agree.
There's an online game called "Twofer Goofer" and it has an option to share your score at the end. In Firefox, you click the Share button and it copies the score to the clipboard, where you just paste it to wherever you want it.
In Safari, it doesn't do that. Instead of copying, it pops up a list of contacts and apps, and of course the app I want to paste into isn't listed. I have to e.g. pick someone in Messages, which opens a message to them with the score in it, then select and cut that, close the window, then paste it into my actual desired target.
Why in the world do they feel the need to make this so complicated?!
In Safari, it doesn't do that. Instead of copying, it pops up a list of contacts and apps, and of course the app I want to paste into isn't listed. I have to e.g. pick someone in Messages, which opens a message to them with the score in it, then select and cut that, close the window, then paste it into my actual desired target.
Why in the world do they feel the need to make this so complicated?!
Apple has been turning credit card numbers in secure Notes into phone numbers for years.
Well, it does say share and does not say copy to the clipboard. Firefox clearly doesn't utilise the sharing API. Some people, me included, find the sharing API super convenient. Saves having to switch applications and what I'm doing on the screen.
But yes, a copy to clipboard extension included per default can be good for some scenarios. An app like shareful does provide such functionality. It is free.
The Overcast app just got ruined with “improvements” similar to the gripes that inspired me to start this thread. More taps to access frequently-used things that used to be out in the open. Less intuitive layout. But a changed appearance. The app was a great replacement when Apple ruined the podcast app. Now the search for a better option for the previously better option.
Ahh, yes. I don't use Overcast myself but one of my friends was complaining about it the other day. It sounds like... well, like your avatar.
Been struggling with Overcast "update" myself
It's particularly painful as the older version is what I still have and use on my iPhone SE1s ... but my iPad Mini and iPhone Mini 13 are stuck with the "new" version
When comparing them directly, side by side, the new version really stands out (in a bad way)
It's particularly painful as the older version is what I still have and use on my iPhone SE1s ... but my iPad Mini and iPhone Mini 13 are stuck with the "new" version
When comparing them directly, side by side, the new version really stands out (in a bad way)
A bit off topic for a website thread, but these "redesigns" remind me of a comment I saw on a YouTube video a few years ago. A 90s music video had been rescanned from its original film and uploaded in UHD.
Comment: I still have the CD for this! They should remaster the whole album!
The somewhat incredulous response: The album was mastered by the revered [person] at [studio] and frequently appears in top 10 lists of best-sounding albums. Why in the world do you think it needs a remaster?!
Of course, the original commenter didn't reply, but I bet it was a case of "it's old, therefore it needs to be changed". Grr.
Comment: I still have the CD for this! They should remaster the whole album!
The somewhat incredulous response: The album was mastered by the revered [person] at [studio] and frequently appears in top 10 lists of best-sounding albums. Why in the world do you think it needs a remaster?!
Of course, the original commenter didn't reply, but I bet it was a case of "it's old, therefore it needs to be changed". Grr.
Or perhaps it was a case of the best intentions and not commanding the English language very well. I mean, they wouldn't be the first to interchangeably use remaster when they meant remix.
Then again, not all CDs were in DDD, even when sounding great, not knowing the CD, it could be in AAD and sound amazing, but still have some more to get out of it with currently day conversions and turn it into an ADD album.
Or it could be as you bet it is.
I just came across a website where, after performing a search, it shows a pre-filled search box with your terms:
Those terms gave me no hits, so I thought maybe I'd try it without "imac". I double-clicked on "imac" to select it, and it didn't work: the first click activates the field, which removes the magnifying glass icon and shifts all the text to the left. This resulted in the second click selecting "keyboard" instead.
Do they think nobody ever edits their search terms? I'd wonder how this got through testing, but I suspect there wasn't any.
Those terms gave me no hits, so I thought maybe I'd try it without "imac". I double-clicked on "imac" to select it, and it didn't work: the first click activates the field, which removes the magnifying glass icon and shifts all the text to the left. This resulted in the second click selecting "keyboard" instead.
Do they think nobody ever edits their search terms? I'd wonder how this got through testing, but I suspect there wasn't any.
I think using CSS lazily is ruining most websites an dth equick way seesm to take precedent over skill.
Case in point, were i freelanced as a content and graphic design minion, all the"coder" did was edit, change and improve item like text, color size just by typing #12756 or 400px in the code area of the site instead of launching Photoshop.
But all the digital world is just code of 0 or 1, i was BUTB, brought up to believe.
i did take a hiatus from 2102 to 2107 from web development and knowledge as things obviously changed drastically those years.
Anyways my concern is that I started building my own website last week on Dreamweaver CS4 were i use tables and crossed fingers that the site functions in 2025. I wont optimize the site or bombard that with keywords or even submit this to "teh googles" as we did in 2009 onward.
im just displaying my career achievements online without using
a plastic host like wix, wordpress or weebly which hosts my art work now.
Case in point, were i freelanced as a content and graphic design minion, all the"coder" did was edit, change and improve item like text, color size just by typing #12756 or 400px in the code area of the site instead of launching Photoshop.
But all the digital world is just code of 0 or 1, i was BUTB, brought up to believe.
i did take a hiatus from 2102 to 2107 from web development and knowledge as things obviously changed drastically those years.
Anyways my concern is that I started building my own website last week on Dreamweaver CS4 were i use tables and crossed fingers that the site functions in 2025. I wont optimize the site or bombard that with keywords or even submit this to "teh googles" as we did in 2009 onward.
im just displaying my career achievements online without using
a plastic host like wix, wordpress or weebly which hosts my art work now.
Dreamweaver? Is that still around?
SPA developer for 10+ years. I would say that I am pretty good at CSS. Flexbox and CSS grids make it very easy to 'pixel push' and build responsive applications / sites. I do not like relying on libraries: Tailwind, Bootstrap, ect.
Why would you need to launch Photoshop? Is that still around?
Unless you are retired, I really wouldn't leave a trace that you used Dreamweaver CS4 for your career achievements in 2024 😬 And the time of slicing photoshop into a website is also well over, and rightfully so. It is nearly impossible to make something like that standards and regulatory compliant.
Don't forget that you can use GitHub (pages) also to host a simple site for things like that.
Why in the world do they feel the need to dedicate 40% of the page to two lines of text?!
Standardized (Stripe'esk) API documentation model.
More often the right side will have MUCH more information.
Exactly, pretty standard and normal. However, the examples for the endpoints are somehow embedded in the text opposed to being generated to be in the code blocks. It is like the apprentice generated this documentation.
But as you say it is a standard and very useful model for developers, they've just made a mistake.
White space. I so hate white space. Especially in my online bank account.
I have been using Pocket Casts for a few years now. The main reason is that the UI is very similar to Podcast Addict (which was my go-to app when I was using Android as my primary phone).
This is a screenshot from a few minutes ago Sorted by Most Recent. Keep scrolling down and there are LOTS of 1 and 2 star Reviews. I dont fully trust we’re always being presented the full story with App reviews. Some Apple apps had a lot of scathing reviews then suddenly got less horrible a week later. That shift doesn’t occur that quick on its own.
And we wouldn’t need Dark Mode if UI’s went back to a more balanced appearance. Often too much minimalist dark space is just as bad as too much minimalist white space. Dark mode is a bandaid for bad UI, not a fix or even improvement. How Apple doesn’t recognize this is mind boggling. 😵💫