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Oddjob
22-08-2006, 11:50 AM
Is this possibly the worlds best website http://www.soulwax.com/? Discuss.
What was so incredible about it? The fact that it constantly loads, the annoying animations everywhere, the fact you have to resize any window to read the text, or the sheer stupidity of it?
My favourite part is how easy it is to navigate.
W2ttsy
22-08-2006, 02:40 PM
it was incredible alright! incredible levels of shit.
now dont flame me, i am a web developer by trade and could spend the next 4 hours giving out reasons why this is so shithouse.
here are a few:
1) on a 24" LCD i still get horizontal scrolling? wtf!
2) its still ussing frames?
3) broken images?
4) no readable content?
5) shithouse implementation?
if you want a wank site, check out this. nikeair (http://www.nike.com/nikeair/us/)
W2ttsy
djdom
22-08-2006, 02:50 PM
u really wanna no what grinds my gears things flashing at you it just pisses me of.... 24inch screen woow thats pritty big must have set u back a bit almost as big as my wheels
Oddjob
22-08-2006, 02:57 PM
it was incredible alright! incredible levels of shit.
now dont flame me, i am a web developer by trade and could spend the next 4 hours giving out reasons why this is so shithouse.
here are a few:
1) on a 24" LCD i still get horizontal scrolling? wtf!
2) its still ussing frames?
3) broken images?
4) no readable content?
5) shithouse implementation?
if you want a wank site, check out this. nikeair (http://www.nike.com/nikeair/us/)
W2ttsy
The Nike website is undoubtedly polished but its hardly unique.
The Soulwax website is unique. The only thing I've seen that comes close for artistic merit is the crumpler website http://www.crumpler.com.au
Ruckus_Lord
22-08-2006, 03:38 PM
The Nike website is undoubtedly polished but its hardly unique.
The Soulwax website is unique. The only thing I've seen that comes close for artistic merit is the crumpler website http://www.crumpler.com.au
Being a Web Designer myself, i try to accomplish a unique site, but at the same time keep visual simplicity and easy navigation, I see no benefit or art in an over framed, flashing, hard to navigate website. Crumpler on the other hand does achieve a good blanace of art (as wacky as it may be) but it's still simple to navigate and to look at.
Nike on the other hand is pritty much perfect, simple yet effective design, yet uses effective images and effects. Remember, more isn't always better.
ashhash
22-08-2006, 03:59 PM
Bwahaaa...
That blows mate.
Unusable is the word I think your looking for, not incredible.
scblack
22-08-2006, 04:07 PM
I have no care about website design, but I'd say comparing the Nike site to the Soulwax one, I'd use the following analogy.
Nike site is like a Mercedes brochure - professional and all there, well laid out, looks good.
Soulwax is like a teenagers scrapbook - maybe everything is there, but some is glued over the top, trying to fit a bit there, with no direction, and no intuitiveness at all. Just a jumble.
Oddjob
22-08-2006, 04:21 PM
Nike on the other hand is pritty much perfect, simple yet effective design, yet uses effective images and effects. Remember, more isn't always better.
I think this is my point though. Perfect is boring, when I looked at the Nike website I was impressed by its technical profiency but I didn't get a visceral reaction.
The Soulwax website is not the most user friendly web site or the most technically amazing in the world but it gets a reaction out of everyone whether good or bad and I think that is the point. Another good example is http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/.
Oddjob
22-08-2006, 04:26 PM
I have no care about website design, but I'd say comparing the Nike site to the Soulwax one, I'd use the following analogy.
Nike site is like a Mercedes brochure - professional and all there, well laid out, looks good.
Soulwax is like a teenagers scrapbook - maybe everything is there, but some is glued over the top, trying to fit a bit there, with no direction, and no intuitiveness at all. Just a jumble.
I think a better analogy would be that the Nike site is a Van Gogh and the Soulwax is a Jackson Pollack
johnny
22-08-2006, 05:29 PM
Yeah, I can see the appeal there. You have to look closely as it's about this >| |< big. It's up in the far upper right corner, it's red with a little white cross on it (upper left if using Mac).
Sorry Oddjob, but I disagree. Horses for courses I guess.
The Nike website is undoubtedly polished but its hardly unique.
The Soulwax website is unique. The only thing I've seen that comes close for artistic merit is the crumpler website http://www.crumpler.com.au
If you want artistic, check out www.donniedarko.com
tu plang
22-08-2006, 05:58 PM
If you want artistic, check out www.donniedarko.com
yup definitely right up there in terms of cool websites!
treggs
22-08-2006, 09:01 PM
Having done a bit of web stuff myself... I have to agree with W2ttsy. The Nike and Donnie Darko sites are very polished and would have taken huge amounts of work (even before getting near a computer). www.thedesignersrepublic.com isn't to bad but I hate loud noises in websites. Great way to tell your boss you are doing things you shouldn't be, and they get kinda annoying. The sound in the nike and donnie darko sites is subtle and appropriate for the site.
My 3 cents worth...
And yes my site needs some love....
Binaural
22-08-2006, 09:08 PM
Looking at that website makes me want to take a deer rifle to the roof of my apartment and start picking off random cars. Fugly++.
d3zm0nd
22-08-2006, 09:24 PM
had i not realised there was an off button on my speakers, i would have wrenched them from my table, thrown them at the wall and repeatedly beaten them with a blunt object due to that incessant clicking from the constant loading on that retarded site.
phew...
anyway, that website sucked
mr636
23-08-2006, 02:07 AM
had i not realised there was an off button on my speakers, i would have wrenched them from my table, thrown them at the wall and repeatedly beaten them with a blunt object due to that incessant clicking from the constant loading on that retarded site.
phew...
anyway, that website sucked
tell me about it! i was clicked the link and was looking at somthing else, then the clicking started! least it got my attention.
i like the vauge idea of the site, but i couldnt be bothered looking at it in depth. it was too much hard work. plus it nearly gave me an epileptic fit!
nike was boring. too surgical. very "correct".
murrum
23-08-2006, 08:09 AM
classy layout - simple to use and navigate - www.prickies.com
badge up baby.:)
Oddjob
23-08-2006, 08:18 AM
If you want artistic, check out www.donniedarko.com (http://www.donniedarko.com)
Wow that is a cool website. The navigation is a bit annoying but 10 points for effort especially as it must be a few years old now.
GrubNut
23-08-2006, 10:09 AM
Is this possibly the worlds best website http://www.soulwax.com/? Discuss.
How about we adopt that format for farkin? Each forum could be in its own vertical frame. As a further improvement all text could be blinking red. ;)
cellardoor
23-08-2006, 11:26 AM
http://www.123klan.com/
Wow that is a cool website. The navigation is a bit annoying but 10 points for effort especially as it must be a few years old now.
Yeah, it's definately not straight forward to navigate. It's basically a peice of art/interactive experience. It's not like the soulwax website where it's the bands' main current website that's meant to have all sorts of info and data and pics etc. the donnie darko site is just an interactive experience. There's all sorts of codes and stuff, you can unlock all sorts of cool shit. You need to know the movie well to be able to get to all the different parts. It's not well navigable but that isn't the point. I can only imagine how hard it would've been to make.
ill pay 2manydj's music as incredible but fuck there site is a shitfight.
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