[squeak-dev] squeak.org latest

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 22:54:13 UTC 2012


Hahahahaha yeah I'm sure it doesn't help to have a site that barely escaped the 70s, same time, I'm rockin' some Tom Baker scarves, and here's the thing: Amanda Palmer did the same game, and raised a million dollars on Kickshit doing it. 

I'm just sayin, colors are pretty...

On Nov 30, 2012, at 2:41 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> On 30-11-2012, at 2:30 PM, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (Bunkering down against missile strikes from nice people who like the new standard bland!)
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> The problem is that really strong colours make it really hard to read the content and that tends to obviate the purpose of a site. It *can* work if you have sufficient graphic design talent with sufficient time to do a great deal of work. In general it probably isn't beneficial to have a site that looks like it escaped from the 1970s
> Like, for example 
> http://www.sixtiespress.co.uk/
> http://www.pinesol.com/
> http://www.supervideo.com/
> http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-web-design-featured-on-web-pages-that-suck-in-2005.html
> and most especially -
> http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/
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> tim
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> Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
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