Comments on: Basic design principles https://dfarq.homeip.net/basic-design-principles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=basic-design-principles David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sat, 15 Apr 2017 03:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/basic-design-principles/#comment-1384 Fri, 15 Nov 2002 22:35:35 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=274#comment-1384 Yeah their site is broken w/ mozilla, you have to access it with ie, go figure. The do have complete song listings as well as lyrics, quite a few videos, and some images. Couldn’t find a bio, but didn’t look to hard. Probably will only visit, if I want to look up lyrics. BTW I am reading an interesting book about the spiritual journey of U2, it is Walk On by Steve Stockman.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/basic-design-principles/#comment-1383 Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:19:04 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=274#comment-1383 useit.com: Jakob Nielsen’s Website

Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/basic-design-principles/#comment-1386 Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:11:17 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=274#comment-1386 Note how Eric Meyer uses the image–it extends only about 12 characters into the text, and it’s blended way into the background color. It’s a very, very far cry from a GIF background in FrontPage.

If you have Eric Meyer’s skills, then by all means go for it and beautify your site. If your skills are limited to what FrontPage will let you do, you’re a whole lot better off sticking to solid colors.

As far as the U2 site, I can’t visit it since I don’t have Flash installed and don’t want it installed. One-time Flash intros are slick, but that’s exactly what they are. Slick. They don’t really add value to the site. Other than a slick intro, does U2’s site offer anything the typical fan-run U2 site doesn’t? I last visited their site a year or two ago and if I remember right they had a few photos posted from the set where they shot their “Beautiful Day” video, and I think you could watch one of their music videos in one of the popular streaming media formats. But if you were after a band biography, interviews, and song listings, you’d have been much better off going to a fan site. So I don’t know how many repeat visits they actually get. I doubt it’s a lot.

Thanks for the examples.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/basic-design-principles/#comment-1388 Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:38:07 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=274#comment-1388 http://www.U2.com has an animated intro which is very slick. But seeing how the rest of us are not the media giants that U2 is, we should definitely avoid animations. The rest of their animations tend to be anoying once in their site. Eric Meyer’s css edge site has serveral examples of using backgrounds behind text. http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo2.html
Both of these are good examples of when it is okay to break the rules, but only because the rule breaking is not annoying or distracting from the users experience.

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