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- Corynorhinus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Notice that none of these designs use a Flash navigation interface with tons of menus and submenus like every other huge corporation out there...
"Skip intro...Choose your country...Products>Consumer Products>56XXX Series Products>56205 (2005 edition)>Sorry, that page no longer exists" - Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Dugg for "By today’s standards this site is laughable (although still better designed than MySpace)"
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18The products, the product lineup and the OS have changed alot in the last 3 or 4 years, but Apple.com itself hasn't changed much. On first glance it doesn't look like it has changed at all!
It needs a little attention IMO, those pinstipes up top have been like that forever!! - Kale, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I think Apple's current site is the gold standard for website design (not a web designer, fwiw). It's clean, easy to navigate, and lots of whitespace ( which makes it look elegant and cool ). I vote no major changes.
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15@ BrianPower
Posting duggmirror wont get you dugg up unless it was actually necessary. - bouche, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I think that navigation for things like SUPPORT are terrible. Every time I've needed to find anything for fixing something, or getting something fixed, I've had a hard time locating the information. I'm not even an idiot.
It is a nice site though, but the support feels more like a casino where you go around in circles popping more money into slot machines as you try and make your way out. - pureliquidhw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+890% of the links they have break, but seeing old-school google is the shiznaz.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4When you check out the page for the iPod or Mac Pro (and probably others as well) they have a black-based theme but still fit into the site nicely. Sure it's not a re-design, but they aren't just cranking out the same template for each page so there's a little variety.
- cpostier, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I would haveta agree w/ Kale, More white the better, Unclutterd sites look a hell of a lot better... I think the site would be cool if redesigned, but they need to keep the clean look and no flashy colors...keep white around...
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"but at the time this was cutting edge." is the only thing I disagree with here.
Gil Amelio was still the CEO until July '97, so this is really the holdover from the Amelio days. There's no way that Steve Jobs would have approved a site like that if he were training his full attention on it.
Web technology may have changed in the past ten years, but good design is good design - and that's just not it. - nandabanaotakun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ bouche: Support tab>Discussions
Post your problem. The community will solve it. They rock. - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yes, their design is wonderful. It's unfortunate that the code under the hood is so terrible.
- SatanicPengiuns, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're right on that, i cant stand it when people make flash navigations that are there to show off how many things they can make move at once lol, But when flash navigations are done right man can they look good.
- grow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I've never had a problem finding anything on Apple's website. I think they should leave it alone
- merr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Only $1699 for their top-of-the-line PowerMac in 1998? That's certainly a whole lot less than their current Mac Pros.
http://web.archive.org/web/19980509035608/www.apple.com/thinkdifferent/prohw.html - uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree, it's a very well built site. Of all of the products I support on a daily basis at work, Apple's site is by far and away that most easily readable, friendliest, and most pleasant to deal with. Here's also hoping for no big changes to the site.
- triplexpac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its a great example of just how strong Apple has been as a brand over the years. They don't need to overhaul their site, because you can look at it and instantly think "Apple". Very solid design that stands the test of time.
- uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Flash navigations *can* look good, and even work good...but it's extremely rare to see one that fits either of those...I can't think of any one at all right off hand that would fit both.
Apple has done a great job with keeping it simple and elegant, yet easily navigable and functional. - aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@merr: That is in 1998 dollars. A dollar cannot buy you anywhere near as much today as it could back then.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But does that soda have four cores?
- merr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't I know that. I grew up in small town with a single (family-owned) grocery store where i remember buying 20 oz sodas for $0.89 after tax. Now, in that same grocery store (which is now owned by a local chain), the same product costs $1.29 after tax.
I'm certain there is a point there, but now I'm just feeling nostalgic. - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Style never goes out of fashion. Great work by the team at Apple.
(I'm insanely jealous btw) - vkore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good site, but needs more screenshots to be more interesting.
- SatanicPengiuns, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3the newer style of their glossy style is definitely better than the older way, Apple's webdesigner(s) must be hardcore minimalist(s). i like that lol
- jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But the newer Mac Pros are better! 4 cores! 64-bit! Mac OS X!
- Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1looking at dugg.com on that site is pretty funny. You can go back to when they put it up for sale and watch the price double up until now. Considering that the site has been for sale for 4 years now, I hardly think doubling the price is a good idea...
- MBX1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2apple.com needs a redesign. something in the style of their apple/pro websites: http://www.apple.com/pro/
simple, elegant. - crazyman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3This reminds me how much I used to hate the internet.
- CasaMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign"
http://alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign - ipodder81, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Only a couple of pics!? That's lame.
- guanyuhong, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0good !
- Sturmur, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This is about the 10th time I've seen this same freaking story on the digg frontpage.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -17/+12http://web.archive.org/
^^ 10 years of basically every site, minus the stupid commentary. - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2That's a damn good user name - funny, rofl!
- BrianPower, on 10/12/2007, -22/+3http://www.duggmirror.com
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