WTF?
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- Bender0
Pure text sites are an idiot, and so are Jacob Nielsen
- TheBlueOne0
Excellent...can I have that 3 seconds back that I spent on a looking at a site about usability that sent me screaming away from it back?
- st33d0
tldr
- morilla0
people have been quaking this shit for years.
- mg330
- CP120
fine, onto hookers and blow then! :)
- bukka0
I ran into this recently with a client. I designed a website for them that had an image header to push product, looked good!
They went with this marketer guy out of Kansas that boasts text sites and claims it sells product way better.
Now their site is pages and pages of text to sell product? Seemed a bit much to me but oh well.
I move on...I just didn't get it!!
- Crouwel0
why do the images not load on that page?
i use safari btw.
- Crouwel0
anyway, that page looks rather messy.
- virtu0
Im going to rant really quick:
This mentality is so retarded. I am so sick of seeing sites done entirely in text and hearing people worship them. It isnt cute clever or ground breaking. When I hear people talk about things like screen readers for blind people, I want puke in my lap. Screen readers? Like, "Oh, dont use the "b" tag, a screen reader doesnt know what that is. Use the "strong" tag instead." This whole thing is so far overboard. If the internet was full of sites that looked like useit.com, the human species would literally reverse evolve. We would be painting on cave walls in no time. Neilson and all the other usability purists will sight studies for eternity. But, at the end of the day, I would much rather read 9px forum posts in a 175px wide column in the PVN than read 14px type on useit.com. Why? you ask. Because I dont read things like a computer. A site that is nothing more that a huge field of type makes my brain hurt. This whole usability thing has gone waaaayyyy to far.
- mrdobolina0
I agree with the republican.
- Crouwel0
me too.
- MelC0
Well said!
- Crouwel0
thanks. it wasn't hard though. just two words. me and too!
- MelC0
Sometimes the most powerful and moving things are the simplest.
Me and too is succinct and possibly even brilliant