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- sakuraz, on 10/10/2007, -6/+93I disagree.
Hosting: The Easiest but Most Important Part of Web Design - jcaino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39a browser created 404 error really is about as simple as it gets.
- aussieaubs, on 10/10/2007, -2/+38*****!! when will digg put a duggmirror link in - they are the cause for these sites going down.... provide some alternative you pooheads!!
- peaches017, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26The most veteran blogger's hosting dies after 50 diggs?
- Darkyuubi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23And nothing more simple than a 404 page.
=D - AgentOrn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Nothing says simplicity like error 404.
- Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Higher Diggs = More Visits
- msodrew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9how the ***** would mod_rewrite help him?
- Drexus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8"So what then is the key to good web design..."
Effective web design is the same as effective media design in general. Information design is where it starts. Learn about information design and simplicity will look like a fresh paved road to any design challenge. All graphic designers have been taught this, and every industry pays us to show it to them. If you can't communicate your message in a short and precise manner using the least amount of visuals, then you won't get it across. The subconscious mind is many times faster then most would believe, yet it is 90% responsible for our individual reactions. You can't argue with what you have seen. - Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8There's a 1 in 5 chance we're living in a computer simulation.
- honus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6You meant to say "most veteran blogger down under with no hosting..."
Or is this part of that whole Aussies censoring the Internet thing? - photonload, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Another site down. Digg really needs to figure out how to fix this sort of problem.
- rojano17, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6404, simple yet beautiful
- invertedtwisted, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7FAIL!
Posting the almighty duggmirror link is a huge responsibility, it must be said. - Syvl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If you have Firefox, there's a nice add-on called Dugged that puts in the duggmirror link for you.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4255 - championchap, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7But more visits != More Diggs
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Ah yes, "the most beautifully simple blog designs" with "the most bottlenecked server configurations".
Mirror anyone? - snowrider221, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9Can someone please move this to the images sect..... oh, wait...
- mentor972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not Found
The requested URL /2007/08/14/ivory/ was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.disassociated.com Port 80
I get it. The hardest part of web design is keeping your server up despite being on the front page of Digg...
Insightful. - betterth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4And down again =)
- orvtech, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4i think in your case the most hardest part is to configure apache to support 97 diggs.
mod_deflate, mod_rewrite, mod_cache are your friends - vanmeir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3His web site is even simpler than I expected. I read the whole thing in under 10 seconds.
- coldskool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3shopped... I can tell by the pixels
- 1310nm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5...404 pages.
- jp007, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Oh, it's down? I thought that it was just an example of a page with simplicity... :(
- h4mx0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's ironic isn't it? It's hard to be simple and it's simple to make something hard.
- borisyankov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The site was down at the 22th digg.
It's ridiculous that people continue to digg this article! - bdpf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yep simple: error 404
- kelly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2wow... that really is a simple design.
Sigh. - CushyL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Holy spam Batman... Why don't you just put your own video on Digg, instead of throwing the url in the comments?
- btbalance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I like them odds!
- stouffer67, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I guess that the hardest but most important part of web design is Not Found
The requested URL /2007/08/14/ivory/ was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.disassociated.com Port 80.
Who would've known? - Nick22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Oddly enough, seems like all the designs iv done are too simple, when I give a preview people start going "omg its way t00 s!mpl3". For me the hard part is finding a balance between simplicity and complexity
- PixelVision, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Am I programmed to be a deviant or is that my natural instinct?
- Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Bandwidth isn't the problem - server-side scripting (PHP, a la Wordpress, etc) is the bottleneck. Caching FTW.
- IronTeardrop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Server Capacity: The Hardest but Most Important Part of Web Design
- hman2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Here's the largest sized thumbnail I could get from Snap, so as to at least see a bit of the design:
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/2990/urlhttp3a2f2fwwwdisassosp8.jpg - abcgi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If Digg did start showing their own cache page after Digg's got above a certain number it would solve this problem, AND, if they removed advertising etc they could reduce the attractiveness of SEM spamming?
- HigherLogic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The key to effective web design can be summed up in one word: usability. Pretty sites are great—to look at—but people want a usable, accessible website that's not frustrating, that's easy to read, and loads fast.
- windwaker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2sometimes they do. you can't tell me that a story on the front page is more likely to get visits than one with one or two diggs.
- dotslashsocks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"It seems it is all too easy to grab a ready made theme or template...make a few hasty (and usually not so great) 'modifications'...The result is in fact a website, or blog, that is a disorganised mess."
"Thanks to the wide range of Wordpress themes and Blogger templates though, you don’t require a great deal of web design skill"
i.e, using themes/templates = fail, but I'll recommend you use them anyway...that's logic. - cVioletteRun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What a beautifully simple site! No complicated CSS, no flashy, unnecessary JavaScript, just simple, black-on-white, browser-default font text!
Gorgeous! - MedHead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The writer presented the sites as easy to use in their simplicity, but I found them to be the opposite: the simplicity was merely in their use of color, not their design. The sites were all basically walls of text.
- MonkeyFit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, except for easy to read, that would rule out digg as a site people want.
- alexgamerz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3the digg effect is the hardest and most important or wed design
- sakuraz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Whatever friggin brilliant stuff you've got to show, if the server's down, nobody can see it.
- Drexus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And this would apply to an intranet how?
- tubaros, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1its 22nd, not 22th, unless you meant "Twenty tooth Digg" of course :-)
- allenu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yes, but it was so simple!
- kevyn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1well done mike: you have just joined digg and given us spam in every comment you make. great.
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