Indexhibit: good bad?
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- FLsux
It frees you to make a clean website without thinking too much about coding, and allows you to concentrate more on content, but it's so damn generic.
Thoughts?
- digdre0
better as indexr
- jnnbugg0
i was gonna use that site as well.
- FLsux0
I did, and I think I might have to pull the code and change the font type and size, cause it's looking a bit too uniform and tiny.
- version30
needs more javascript
- Juan_Dumplo0
needs more content
- acescence0
if you're customizing heavily, you're better off with something like wordpress. more documentation and help out in the wild.
- Juan_Dumplo0
there is a forum for indexhibit that does worked fined in the way you can speak problem so that was people there to under-stand that you are asking and this would will help in the forward of building a coollest folio web...
- What?rounce
- your english scares me.FLsux
- HGAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. ha. *tearbaseline_shift
- LOLJuan_Dumplo
- kikebesada0
I think its good I've used it and Its a clean a neutral way to show your works.
- Corvo20
I think it's ok for print designers, illustrators or artists (yeah, the real ones) to showcase their work at a starting point. You just post pictures and stuff.
Decidedly not very interesting for web designers, in spite of the "encompass a large body of work" promotional prattle.
Also shouldn't non web designers should pay web designers for specific solutions? You know... Why don't you drink from the same bottle you're selling? An individual site that reflects your work is always more appealing than all this sort of flickrblogcargoindexretc things.
- Corvo20
In short, using massified broadcast solutions is exactly the contrary of what you're supposed to be doing.
- FLsux0
Moral of the story: it's good enough but not ideal.
And of course it's always better to help one another by relaying this sort of job to someone with the right credentials.
Which makes your work look better by showcasing it in a completely original way, and gets the money rolling around for everyone by spreading the work load.at least that's what I gathered.
- Yes. That's it. It would also make web designers happy.Corvo2
- ian0
Wholeheartedly agree with you corvo. If your job is to create excellent, functional websites for your clients then surely you should be able to do the same for yourself to showcase your talents without resorting to templates.
If you're not a web monkey then it's acceptable to use it, but better as corvo suggested, hire someone to do it for you. Or trade, do a print job for them in exchange.
- I agree, but of late I've realised trading is somewhat a bit complicated, or misused.Corvo2
- ian0
Oh and the devil is in the detail as they say. The examples of it used well have been customized sufficiently and competently enough that it looks considered. Bad examples look like bad examples of any other type of site or media, cobbled together and ugly with no consideration of design.
Forcetwelve did a good job on his, but from what I've seen of his work , the chap has a rather splendid eye for design and it shows.
- Jnr_Madison0
Juan_Dumplo, put down that English phrase book.
- thoughtandtheory0
Big fan of expression engine honestly. It lets the cms work around your design, not the other way around.
- thompson0
It depends on what you can live with. Indexhibit is fantastic for just getting some work up and letting it speak for itself. It's also very easy to customize via CSS. For a free CMS it's pretty great and supported well in the forums by Vaska. My only annoyance is that they have been talking about a new release with "amazing" new features for about a year now.
Nearly every forum thread has a "coming soon" comment.
- Corvo20
Well, to be honest, I think the problem is also that websites are charged pretty heavily - and that promotes blogging and image-sharing sites - because web design (and all its procedures) was adopted and incorporated by big advertising companies pretty fast.
But in the core, you can make a good website from sticks, and there's a whole lot of people that wants a personalised website but just don't buy a website/web-work because they think it's too expensive.
Everyone could make a little more, if it was a bit more civil and the web market was dominated by small shops, instead of big companies setting the standards.
This relates to our whole economy and the so-called "crisis". We're having a crisis because production was concentrated in a few spots and every body wants the same stuff instead of having a more diverse economy and a more diverse and differentiated want for goods.
That's why I'm for villages, instead of cities.
- hear hear!FLsux
- also yeah the whole concept of micromanagement, and microeconomies are much more manageable, and less likely to go out of hand as things on he macroscopic level where the details are unobserved. and all it takes is a lot of little unobserved termites to bring even the biggest building down.FLsux
- I think so, indeed. But the solutions are stream-lined.Corvo2
- Corvo20
It's funny, but web design (design as in having a specifically "drawn" web site) died after the invention of back-end solutions and en-powering the user. What's going on is not design. It's something else.
- Corvo20
I'm a fucking hippie.