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- utopian0
The actual site is pretty boring, but the client work is very nice.
- mudchicken0
they sure do love themselves ... a lot
- ukit0
The page seems crowded...too many elements calling out for attention at once. Because of all the extraneous elements, you lose a strong sense of what section of the site you are in. Or maybe it's just me...I haven't had my coffee yet.
- ukit0
Also this a company that's spent their entire existence evangelizing Flash...even their blog is written in Flash!! But they choose not to develop their site in Flash? I don't get it.
- mikotondria30
its like everyone thinks flash is a bmx..
Everyone got a bmx for christmas or birthday back in the 80s, and pretty soon everyone could pop a wheelie, bust out an endo, and turn the handlebars a little bit when they went off a home made ramp in the woods. These basic tricks were the right-click Add Tweens of their time.
Anyone and everyone can do it, and did.
We loved watching 'pros' pop massive 'ariels' off bigger ramps on tv, as we loved the 3d programming of den ivanov, but mostly we all did the same old wheelies in our street.
Then people started putting them together into artful sequences in 'flatland' competitions, and we understood that the bike, and it's east manuverabilities was just a tool to express something else, in the right hands, and with a bit of thought. Mostly we just popped out the same old moves, maybe bumping into a parked car now and then.Now many years on, some of those old schoolers are pulling backward sumersaults off ramps and doing seemingly gravity-defying twists and loops at hair-raising speeds, on tv, for thousands of dollars. It's more than just using the small wheels and center-of-mass to lift the wheels up, but that's essentially what we all think of, kids riding round the neighborhood jumping up and off stuff with little style or art, and we sneer at them as we cruise past on our 55gear carbon monocoque framed ultra-bikes.
On our way to work. Who's the cunt ?- I like turtles...utopian
- 10 points for the worst analogy of all timemudchicken
- ..dreadful, isnt it ? It clarifies nothing, and does it very badly.mikotondria3
- ukit0
mikotondria3, maybe I'm stupid, but I have no idea what you just wrote:D
- utopian0
I like Turtles...
- mikotondria30
..imagine a markup language for bmxes, bmxml - it would be a sub-class of general bike coding,..
<trick>
<wheelie length="20" angle="45" />
</trick>
- mikotondria30
- This is my favorite picture this year. Thank you...mikotondria3
- ********0
I like it, very clean layout.
- modern0
"I'm glad they're not in flash now, I cannot fucking stand flash for anything like this "
Seen their Think Swedish blog? Basically looks an acts like a generic Wordpress blog and its entirely in Flash.
Utter idiocy!
- ********0
haven't been really impressed with their work at all lately, but that's just me
- kld0
really downplaying the 'fantasy'
- instrmntl0
its nice and clean
- mikotondria30
I love their work, but the site looks like it's turned up in a suit and tie.
It's a Ford, and I want the people whom I hire to be a Ferrari.
It's a downtown chain hotel, but I want to stay with artistic friends in their loft.
It's a Panera sandwich but I want to find a local place in Little Italy.
I like their work, and the site is very accomplished, but it looks like they've got some old money to buy half their business, they've all bought new cars, made down-payments on houses and need to grow up to pay the mortgage.
We all do it, there's nothing wrong with that, and fairplay if they've got a 7 figure sum out of someone at their father's golf club and finally 'made it', but it just says 'we don't take risks anymore', and that's a pretty bad mark to make in the sand, especially in this industry.
- ukit0
... I remember several times traveling from Stockholm to New York, being in that long US customs queue, eagerly awaiting to get home, but slightly nervous I might get a customs officer having a bad day. You know the process, you give in your passport and that awful green form which is already a usability nightmare, and the officer hasn’t even looked up and yet he asks, “What are you doing here? What is your occupation?”
I typically would answer, “I make websites.” Head down and still writing away, he asks, “What is the name of your company?” I pause because I know what the reaction is going to be. “Fantasy Interactive”, I mutter. Slowly the head creeps up and we make eye contact for the first time. “Fantasy what? I bet I can guess what kind of websites you make ...” he or she will say with a huge grin or disgusted look.
- joelski0
you think the next 2advanced will be html?
- joelski0
alot of people are redesigning their sites in html because it easier for SEO...you can SEO in flash but its a bit of a process....my thought on this do I want the sort of clients that are finding me via a search engine...or would I rather our website be a site thats just an extension of our folio online that are clients can look at that we have gotten via referrals...focus on the site having more interesting visual content...
do I want a client that has to go to google that types in "webdesign".. I am typing in web design in google I get a list of sites that are design studios in india or butt ugly sites that have stupid amounts of copy and meaningless blogs on their site for SEO...
From my experience the clients we have gotten via passing traffic have been painful clients with no budgets.
Is good design getting lost in SEO what happen to less is more? the images should really be the key point....right??....thoughts?
maybe the answer is to focus on getting mentioned on other sites articles blogs externally from yours to boost SEO...rather then jeopardizing your aesthetics???