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had a discussion somewhere about minimalism, maybe Flashkit, maybe NT.
It's a confusing term because where one person saying "I want my site to be minimal" means they want the site to be simple and free of too much graphics, another person saying the same thing may mean that they want their site to follow the look of minimalism artwork and design as a style.
It's like a buzzword sometimes. A few times I've seen sites criticized for being terribly plain and boring, very basic and you got the feeling they were new to web design and were still learning alot of basic stuff.
When they were told in so many words that the site was lacking in a few visual aspects aka "There's really not much there," their defense was to say that they wanted it to be minimal, in the sense of the artistic movement that is represented often in web design.But it wasn't...a few seemed like very incomplete sites overall.
Maybe that thread is here somewhere (not about specific sites but about the difference between the minimal/basic/lacking vs. minimalism as a style.
Where do you draw the line between the two?