The official "This Web Site is just sick" thread

i loved it :D

I usually hate inscrutable navigation, but I've seen so many attempts by people trying to be too clever for their visitor's good that I've become used to clicking around on stuff that looks like it might take me somewhere. The absolute WORST is when your cursor doesn't change from an arrow to a pointing finger. Similarly, I LOATHE any site that changes my cursor or creates a mouse follower.

And DAMN Firefox for not handling Flash content properly. I've been running into the SBBoD a lot, content that disappears when scrolling, and animations that will only progress with each click of the mouse button.

If anybody knows of a fix or workaround to better enable Flash content in Firefox for OS X, I'd like to hear about it or be pointed to links.

"The official "This Web Site is just sick" thread"

I assume that "sick" is a typo but it's apropos in this case. Occasionally the cleverness of a site using flash almost balances out the sheer frustration of the wasted loading, loading, loading time and frequently included mystery meat navigation. At an "artsy" site it's forgivable but at a commercial site, and there are too many, moving on is the solution and that could well cost, as it has in my case, the loss of a customer.

I didn't care for it - even after the tips on what drjohn so appropriately describes as "mystery meat navigation". The zoom is clever, but (sorry to be so mundane) where's the content? Not all potential customers can understand what they're up to without words. If they can't meet me halfway by describing in easy-to-find words what they are all about, how can they work with me as a customer to create a site for me. Oh, and their probono page is crap; nothing worked.

Here's something else along the same lines of Flash and challenging navigation - but this one is all for the sake of art and fun. Don't visit if you're in a hurry.

http://www.wordsatplay.com/

Not very intuitive from a user's standpoint, but freakin' creative as hell. I like it. For the dipsh!t computer user out there, their links should probably be the mundane and ubiquitous underscored type.

[ur]http://www.fellowdesigners.com/[/url]

lot of research and hard work has been put into this site to make sure the user interface is as easy as it can possibly be. :)

http://www.fellowdesigners.com/

lot of research and hard work has been put into this site to make sure the user interface is as easy as it can possibly be. :)

http://www.fellowdesigners.com/

lot of research and hard work has been put into this site to make sure the user interface is as easy as it can possibly be. :)

susato wrote:

The zoom is clever, but (sorry to be so mundane) where's the content? Not all potential customers can understand what they're up to without words. If they can't meet me halfway by describing in easy-to-find words what they are all about, how can they work with me as a customer to create a site for me.

Thats the point. Think of it as a filter. This guys (sofake), are don't want to do any conventional work. So they build their website almost like a filter. If you find your way through their thinking and you still want to hire them, then you probably gonna be a fun client to work with. I pretty much symphatize with that approach :)

drjohn wrote:

"The official "This Web Site is just sick" thread"

I assume that "sick" is a typo but it's apropos in this case.

Nope... get with the times man... "Sick" is "Good" – you WANT to have a sick looking web site.

Here's the thing, this site isn't there to be "functional," it's a "proof of concept" type of thing, it's there to show you what could be done, how they think, etc... The type of clientele they're going after probably LOVE the site.

I chose this site due to the designers' thinking outside the box (I hate that term, but it fits).

lol... I was well into the second dot when Safari crashed for some reason.

I'll join all the "me toos" with a preference for functionality over eye candy. An argument I endure daily with clients requesting spinning and flaming logos and stupid shit like that. ...And an argument I usually win being that I am a designer, and the only images on my site are in the portfolio.

Keep it simple fellas. ;)

hi

what is it, i really really dont understand what the hell it is!!!

if u know plz explain

it's just a crazy site. it's BS, but fun BS! :D