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- geoken, on 10/15/2007, -2/+216What do people from Poland have to do with great web design?
- MutatedNantuko, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32I saw the title and thought the same damn thing.
- Mongoose, on 10/11/2007, -6/+28You'd think a site dedicated to web design would put more stock in contrast.
- geneticlemon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19"He wound up cleaning the wound gingerly."
"The woman would polish the Polish antique." - woofers07, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13I like how the first element discussed is text clarity, when the designer uses a medium tone text on a dark background which is great for legibility (actually it's not).
- sambapati87, on 10/16/2007, -8/+19It really bugs me that the "design" category is under "Technology" on Digg. Technology is nothing but a tool as it relates to design!! Too many people have Illustrator (or worse, Photoshop) and begin to call themselves designers. Not saying anything about the article's author, per-say (even though it is nothing but "Web 2.0" cookie cutter styles), I just needed a place to vent this frustration, as an actual visual communications design major.
- JeremyBanks, on 10/16/2007, -2/+11Alternate: Spell colour as "color" to alienate most of the world.
- wesd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I have never eaten turkey in Turkey.
- waxdart, on 10/11/2007, -14/+22More accurate headline: Make Your Website Look Like Every Other "Web 2.0" Site.
Seriously - adding drop shadows and gradients are not "great tips for web design". - FZero, on 10/16/2007, -3/+10I couldn't read the text. The colors are too dark and the website design is confusing. It lacks, you know, polish.
- zspeed78, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I once heard Polish is the only word that changes meaning when capitalized or not. 'My Polish friend never has shoe polish'
- dmbchris, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Am I the only one that thought about a polish sausage when I saw this topic? I must be really hungry.
and where's that polish you promised me? - waxdart, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9It's "per se".
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6i'm surprised that you're still at positive diggs. virtually everyone on digg is a self proclaimed graphic/web designer and any time you bash this mob for their idiocy, they go nuts.
and this article isn't about "great web design". it's about "web 2.0 SHINY! ROUNDED CORNERS AMAZING!~!!!!!111!!!!LOL!!!!" stupidity. - smhill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Me too.
I suspect Digg is gamed more often than not. That site hits the front page every time they post and the posts are alright, but not great. There are definitely better out there.
It is pretty suspicious. It is a minimal site with a ton of ads. It always to the front page quickly very often, and nay-sayers are always dugg down.
http://www.digg.com/design/Super_Slick_Dusky_Light ... - flashden, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6hehe yes I must admit that design could do with some polishing itself. I think someone else mentioned the lack of contrast which I'm often guilty of. Oh well, I'll add it all to my to-do list :-)
- wesd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Argh, I didn't know what to do!
I found the comment moderately amusing so I wanted to digg you up, but in the interest of your inner strength I dugg you down. - t1m0j5, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Spokojnie synu
- instabil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The most important "element of great web design" is usability. A page that's hard to read is just bad design.
- klick37, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I could have sworn by the title that it would demand you outsource to Poland.
- With, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Why's this guy getting dugg down? The truth: he speaks it.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3How ironic that the first tip is contrast when his own site has awful contrast on the text/background.
- SpiroPope, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I disagree. Certainly in my realm (industrial / product design), design is about fulfilling a need - to perform a certain task. Technology is an enabler for this, and interface is about how the user interacts with the item, so 'interface' and 'technology' are subsets of the overall design process.
- HardSide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3polaks dont put plastic on furnitures, thats jews.
- t1m0j5, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3did you read the article?
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3and don't forget behaviour/behavior, catalogue/catalog, and grey/gray.
personally, i use the british version for all of them, and also prefer logical quotations (british style also) to silly APA/MLA/BB style. - pyper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2And there sure as hell are not a lot of them left in Poland.
- markstory, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's a good looking design you have there. Good job!
- richashby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I've dug him up too. There's an awful lot of nonsense written about web design, and this kind of thing perpetuates it.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Dugg up for truth
- kimondo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Does anyone else think it looked better before the Polish? - the donate button was more prevalent, the contrast easier on the eye, and that shiny effect just looks dated now.
- ooh456, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I really like the light brown text on brown background. Oh that reminds me I need to take a...
- jacekpoplawski, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3A lot, for example compare allegro.pl to ebay.com.
- DeFex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Kurwa! watch your mouth!
- bpmox, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5I did my part to digg him up
- DiggMasterJ, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1Allow me to blow your mind: Turkey
- paris75, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2nice what tools did you use?
- Syntaxis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This typical "design" is popular because it makes novices feel good about themselves: everyone can make (read: copy/paste) a layout like that without too much effort. And when it doesn't look half-bad they write a tutorial about how they added shadows and gradients. I mean. That's like being exited over being able to change your -font- in OpenOffice Writer. That's just.. the basics..
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Is that tha-facto?
- RecoDesign, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You made a mistake yourself. So I clicked away and immediately to tell you that you typed the word you when you meant to type you're. Spell check doesn't catch everything. You still have to proofread. Everyone makes mistakes. Don't be such an elite ***** about it. You're not perfect either.
- jawbreaker4fs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You're still special.
- Leopards, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1For those that don't get it! The only word in English that changes it's pronunciation depending on whether or not it is capitalized is Polish ie. pertaining to or referring to Poland, polish ie. to make shiny or smooth and the substance used to do this!!
- zspeed78, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Damn, i no longer feel special haha.
- haroldk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I like the before and after views.
Lack of contrast between the tutorial text and the background is poor. Given how the reader's monitor is adjusted, this can make the text hard to read. - SurlyOpie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Frederic Chopin did a great job on my website
- wild, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dude, I am right there with you. Fellow VCD major frustrated by what passes for great design around here.
Tweaking colors in a CSS layout doesn't make you a designer. - mytruckhasdents, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the only difference i see is that apparently every new site is supposed to have a "digg!" stamp on it....
- DemDude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah, what a great example ;-P
- TheGonzo, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I thought it was a citizen of Poland
- drgmdp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yea, cause that site is really well designed
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