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- adidax, on 10/11/2007, -2/+33It only mentions rounded corners once, this cannot be a good design guide.
/sarcasm - HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/8243/diggxz0.jpg
- hipnerd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28It's just not realistic for someone with a site that gets a very modest amount of traffic to pay for a Digg-proof hosting plan on the off chance that they get slammed with a tidal wave of visitors for a few days once a year,
These people aren't cheap. They're (generally) not bad designers.They just are casualties of their own success. It really can't be helped, and the constant bitching about it doesn't accomplish anything. - Higgins, on 10/11/2007, -0/+247 Surefire Ways to Get Your Webserver Hosed.
1) Get Dugg - BoneheadFarker, on 10/11/2007, -6/+26Bah...I buried it for lack of flashing text and contrasting colours. Blue text on red FTW!
/before I get buried, that was a Geocities joke... - zzz@tkz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14It's not really the web designer, it's the server. Granted a person could limit the load on the server by using little to no images (looks way better anyways), but even then it wouldn't be the web designer too much, it'd person paying the bill.
- xerus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15I heard that they're replacing duggmirror with Dr. Phil.
- albiniak, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17holy crap.
who web designed her? she's amazingly hot, and probably validates to boot.
http://www.larissameek.com/
http://www.larissadesign.com/
zeldman, sorry bro, but you just got cut. - fullman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Um, it's the YouTube plugin embed that doesn't validate. Duh? Don't be an ass.
- VSack, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11You're more than likely getting dugg down for your uber wicked awesome usage of capital lettering. Caps Lock is not cruise control for awesome.
- noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10That's not her site.
- restlessdesign, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12I love when people put "Valid XHTML" at the bottom of the page, and then the site doesn't validate:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.larissameek.com%2F - JimmyTheClam, on 10/11/2007, -8/+15Her website is already CHUNKED after only 70 something Diggs?
Yep, that's an accomplished web designer alright.
So, what's that trick she does with her tongue? - rosefu, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Larissa Meek is definitely talented. But there are a ton of female web designers (and many that also use valid CSS/XHTML).
Another great designer is Veerle. She also has a ton of tutorials on her site. http://veerle.duoh.com/ - AngelDragon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8263486442627234005
What does she do with her tongue? - gnalakalaciath5, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Finally, some people that understand true style.
I've personally been really attached to the and tags lately. Maybe we should start a site (we could develop it together!) for real designers. - smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6first off, she's a web _designer_, not a web developer.
secondly, as others have mentioned, that's not her site. she just wrote the article.
last of all, this is likely a logistical problem, and has nothing to do with the way the site was designed. bandwidth and server hardware limits will always impose a problem regardless of how well a site is developed, which has nothing to do with design either. - rss2pdf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Just because a hoster is cheap doesn't necessarily make them bad.
The key is to be real nice to the hoster's support staff...and to warn them in advance of large impending traffic spikes. Often they can do something to help. - alxdelrge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I think the idea behind the -isms is you can apply it to any generic design genre.
It's not meant to be an art class lecture, but a clever way to describe different online design trends.
Don't get your feathers so ruffled haas. - kevinold, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5That link didn't show up right, it's http://www.rikcat.com
- jonnyq, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4... which will be perfectly valid HTML5/XHTML5 when the standard is finished :-)
- mizlame, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It wasn't written to be based on historial art movements but web-design movements using art for examples. You make some good points about art history however.
- negativefx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6From the wikipedia link YOU posted: "Meek is an accomplished artist and web designer."
- frantic24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3saw her picture and had to research... dude, she's for real with a hot name to boot. Holla Larissa!!
- franksands, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3My dear friend errik, as stated before, this is not an art history article, it is a web design article. So, by using star trek as an example she probably reaches more people. This by no means indicates that web design people are dumb, it is just that the ST reference saves time and is more adequate to the mood of the text. No question the article is historically inacurate, but there is a thousand more polite and tactful ways of delivering this points. So by being a troll you lose all your credibility.
- beelz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5http://www.larissameek.com/about/
pics / bio - noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Good point but this is not her site.
- franksands, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2If you don't have time to spend in a task, you will never succeed in it.
- Linc4Justice, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Dug down for overemphasis on graphics rather than site layout.
Dug it right back up again when I saw what she looked like. :-) - crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2look, I found a picture of errik!
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4420/tantrumqp5.jpg - webwright, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I would point out that (with a little research) I found out that she dated Fabio. -723 diggs for dating Fabio! EW!
- spectre_25gt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It's a great article, but the author really should take more care throwing around all these "isms". It's plain to see that there's no background in art history there. #5.1 is a perfect example. It has nothing at all to do with futurism.
Actual example of futurism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blast2.jpg - franksands, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1One thing is how the future actually is, and another is something that looks "futuristic", like the star trek tricorder.
- Errik, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2***** that, she is wrong, very wrong, dead wrong. She is claiming to be a designer, and using the terms of design and art incorrectly. This is unacceptable.
Also all forms of design are connected, to art as well. Be it Industrial design, Graphic Design, Interactive, Architecture, etc., they are all tied to the movements of fine art. To say its just "general" is *****. - fullman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3It's definitely Larissa, friend and coworker.
- slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Its just ok!!
- Dracos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1More graphic design that wants to be web design.
Buried inaccurate. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Should be named 7 Web Design-isms: 7 Unoriginal overused styles that Work
Wordism? You mean Visual communication? MHA! - iamdexter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That is an interesting article.
http://www.naturalizer-shoes.org/ - spidoman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Just remember guys, you can never have too much flash. :P
- theadvinci, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Bacardi DJ website design looks cool.
- smacksaw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Noticeably missing from the list:
New FARK.com style - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't care what anyone says. Collagism is ugly. "Futurism" is nice, but is usually unfuturistically wasteful, with lots of useless metallics/gear ornamentation. The future will be more like how Apple's software is going, minimizing the functionless framing and maximizing the content. That's efficiency, that's the future.
- alabut, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Holy crap, what a great article. This is definitely a few levels above the usual articles on "style" as applied to web design. It reminds me of the book Fresh Styles For Web Designers: Eye Candy From The Underground.
Link to Amazon's page of the book: http://tinyurl.com/2gddeo
Yeah, it's an old book but still a great read and was pretty influential on me personally back in the day. - angle45media, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0has anybody met this web designer...i heard she's super hot
- franky76, on 09/29/2008, -0/+0Give me some tips on when to use a style, when not to use it, what other styles this one goes with and which ones it will clash with. Maybe even discuss some variants of each style. As it is, she just seems like some random graphic designer who can mimic what she sees
http://www.adidasshoess.com - Omar12, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Good article. Makes a lot of sense of where to look for inspiration when you are designing a website.
- web7in, on 03/30/2009, -0/+0good article for web designers like us...
http://web.bizbangladesh.com
http://web.bizbangladesh.com/website_design_develo ... - zzz@tkz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Duggmirror didn't cache it, and it is down as of now.
- megaman2005, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0My personal favorite is less is more.
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