old school web design
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- ukit
Anyone else feel that the web design during 1998-2002 time frame was more artistic and creative? All those ten minute flash intros look dated today but there was a level of creativity that went into it that isn't present, or encouraged anymore.
- TheBlueOne0
not really.
- flashbender0
blog cms killed the flash star
- Now that damn song is stuck in my head.TheBlueOne
- hahahaha. my plan worked.flashbender
- madirish0
no
- moamoa0
you´re 100% right
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2.0 look ruined everything
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- BattleAxe0
i feel that, vir2L rox!
- Corvo0
I agree with ukit.
- sureshot0
a little bit.
- edd-e0
yes i miss tables.. ..wait what am i saying... i dont design for internet...
- hahah! Mere tables can not contain giant mecha! Silly.flashbender
- huh??edd-e
- i didnt use any tables on my site.. its all CSS.
: Pedd-e
- Spookyhome0
I agree, been saying ot for a long time that the element of discovery and play has died. Websites used to be really fun and exploratory. Now I don't ever look for urls to check out.
- Exactlyukit
- the web needs more animated gifs - get on it moist.flashbender
- I don't htink that's due to the change in design, I think that's more to that fact we're USED to the web nowadev
- ukit0
Not saying it was better in every way, but seems like during the "first wave" of design people spent more time on personal artistic expression, even if it was often pointless.
- Exactly.Corvo
- Exactlyukit
- Exactly.Corvo
- the web has a reason now, and I call that reason money.flashbender
- madirish0
the same could be said about vinyl and .wav music.......
..... of course it would be a luddite saying it.
;)
- Not really, thats a quality issue, this is a content/purpose issue.Spookyhome
- evanburke0
ukit, I definitely agree. The web used to commonly be used as a new medium for artists and the techno-literate.
I miss exploratory and experimental websites.
- evanburke0
madirish: "the same could be said about vinyl and .wav music............ of course it would be a luddite saying it."
madirish, I'm not sure you understand the argument.
Wanting experimental and artistics isn't anti-technology or anti-progress. It's actually a higher-order of constructing and utilizing the web than most of the stuff we see. It pushes the web to an art-form, rather than just a fancy version of a piece of paper.
- so the web is now a 'fancy piece of paper' now? wow...madirish
- morilla0
I agree
- Milan0
bring back "mystery meat" navigation!
- Spookyhome0
Fuck, the revolution starts here. Back to the future!
- ukit0
- fyoucher10
I agree. They were more creative.
But then the interwebs actually started becoming useful as time went on, and people just wanted to get to the info. Intro's are kind of like marriage and foreplay. It's cool at first but after a while you just want to get right to it.Intro's are good when they serve a specific purpose (i.e. for an animator to show off animation skills real quick or when you need to make your brand more recognizable by drilling it into the users brain everytime they visit).
- doctor0
Maybe "the old web" was more fun to look at, at times, but it was also much harder to use. I think it's a good thing that certain conventions have developed, now we know more about what users expect, and it makes it easier to design for a good user experience.
From a designers perspective, maybe the old trend with long flash intros etc. was interesting. From a users' perspective however, it was all pretty irrelevant (especially with that damn 56k modem).
I'm a big fan of user centered design. If you can combine the unexpected creativity with good usability and suitable style, I'm all for it.
- ribit0
remember fly-through 3D navigation? Wasn't so much artistic, but exploring a more 'virtual reality space' approach to the web than 'pages'. (OK so its all very Johnny Mnemonic, and the lack of cheap and usable immersive hardware killed that future really...)