Hmm...I wonder what the RocketTheme team has been up to?
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- marinus
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I truly believe web design is changing, it is getting simpler and more efficient for the user experience. And, in that light I do think the weather.com has made amazing changes for the better and I think many other sites will follow the trend.
that could be true, and specially google breathing in my neck to make sure my sites load fast....but with templates putting in all kinds of code in it loading many kb's of scripts doesnt make me a big friend of google... - Subscribed to Joomla + PhpBB template group.
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- prim
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Weather.com is pretty plain and boring. You should measure weather sites against
www.yr.no
instead. It has all the info you need for normal users and it's presented in a very pleasant way.
The site automatically saves your latest city searches on the frontpage for easy access.
If it's not in English you can choose language at the top right.
99% of the weather sites out there sucks UI-wise... - Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
A template is only as good as the content that goes into it
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- Patrick Toulze
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google breathing in my neck to make sure my sites load fast.I don’t use everything in rocketTheme templates and I even replace most of the extension with my own. It will be interesting to have some kind of tutorial, how to trim down a template — Yes I know I can do it myself, but it will be a lot easier if you guys give some directions. That will be cool... I think...
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- Cretan Studies Association
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I really don't see anything special about weather.com either, except for the pleasant soft colour tones at the head and bottom of the page...
I agree with those who argue that it doesn't make much sense to favor a particular style, even more to call a particular trend "the" trend...
Thing is web designers build websites, but not only web designers use them and there can be much discrepancy between the sense of aesthetics of users and designers (as well as between members of each group, of course, but a certain dynamic is produced within each group)
For what is worth I have strong negative feelings about the sense of usability and aesthetics coming from OSs, Apple's or Microsoft's...
In fact they represent everything I dislike about design in webpages nowadays and it keeps getting worse and worse.....wasted space, big buttons, blocky compartmentalized fields...(concerning OSs, I try to make them look like Windows 2000, but with more pleasant colours and tones, the only thing I like really about newer OS)...
Sites I like may be redesigned and then at best you see the structure of information, not the information itself...it saves time for me to glance a webpage and get as much information as possible from that single look, I don't want to have to navigate 2-3 menus to find what I'm looking for.
When I look at a webpage I want to see the equivalent of an open book, I want to see as much information as possible in a single window, while at the same time maintaining legibility...I would endorse touches or brushes of graphics as long as they don't interfere with the text and they are discrete...
For me text and writing is pleasant as a sight itself, hiding it subtracts from the design...
If design starts antagonizing legible text, then the goal has been missed, as far as I am concerned... - You can call me George
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- xtianus
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Cretan Studies Association wrote:
When I look at a webpage I want to see the equivalent of an open book, I want to see as much information as possible in a single window, while at the same time maintaining legibility...I would endorse touches or brushes of graphics as long as they don't interfere with the text and they are discrete...
For me text and writing is pleasant as a sight itself, hiding it subtracts from the design...
If design starts antagonizing legible text, then the goal has been missed, as far as I am concerned...
so you're going to LOVE Windows 8 and its metro style theme... because everything you're saying is what they are trying to implement.
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The genius in this design is not a bunch of damn shadows and buttons 3 dimensional-ness coming into your eyes like steve jobs on lsd... but rather, all the pertinent information you need dynamically changing real-time as the information updates itself.
Again, we can agree to disagree about what you think and what you feel and think works for your individual needs... But there is no denying that a change is coming and choose your weapons wisely.
Lastly, to the www.ty.vo or whatever that webpage was... I am not trying to hold the holy grail of weather pages to www.weather.com - my point was simply to illustrate the before and after change of the evolution of how weather.com changed from one style trend to this newer style / trend. that is all. the ty weather page is a good one no doubt and uses a simplistic template and should be recognized as such.
you know what RT template that I feel came pretty close to being a really cool, lite, and innovative template -
Momentum - IMHO
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xtianus wrote:
Cretan Studies Association wrote:Yes we can agree to disagree...When I look at a webpage I want to see the equivalent of an open book, I want to see as much information as possible in a single window, while at the same time maintaining legibility...I would endorse touches or brushes of graphics as long as they don't interfere with the text and they are discrete...
For me text and writing is pleasant as a sight itself, hiding it subtracts from the design...
If design starts antagonizing legible text, then the goal has been missed, as far as I am concerned...
so you're going to LOVE Windows 8 and its metro style theme... because everything you're saying is what they are trying to implement.
The genius in this design is not a bunch of damn shadows and buttons 3 dimensional-ness coming into your eyes like steve jobs on lsd... but rather, all the pertinent information you need dynamically changing real-time as the information updates itself.
Again, we can agree to disagree about what you think and what you feel and think works for your individual needs... But there is no denying that a change is coming and choose your weapons wisely.
That screenshot you have included rather pinpoints the difference between checking and reading...checking is what the screenshot is all about...active reading, while having at the same time other relevant information close at hand, is another...
The first is very functional for what it is supposed to do...if it was sort of "expanded" it would have been more my taste...
You are also underlying the difference in perspective i was talking about...you are seeing the formulation and the coming of big trend and wish to ride the train, "choose your weapons", so as not be left out...
But it often happens that the dynamic within a particular group of people, designers, artists etc does not fit the views of the people outside it, related the fields or groups might still be...
And it's not of course an "art for the sake of art" thing...there are groups of professionals who are trying to define and establish a certain trend and at the same time they are trying to make a sale...
...their ability to make sales depends on constantly setting and shifting trends, on their ability to differentiate and at the same establish a standard
...they have to differentiate in order to create a product different from what they previously sold, so that people will want to buy it, as if they have something missing...
...they have to establish that standard if they are to really make money out of it...
At the same time they are trying to differentiate between each other, whether they are working towards the same trend or different trends altogether...
And as it happens in other fields of social interaction, those for whom these products are meant for, may not get to have the first or last word, in the sense that the professionals are not thinking in static terms, e.g. what the public, the demographic target wants, but they are in the business of shaping what the public wants, needs and asks for as well...
I am set in my ways in certain terms, and I am not interested in riding the wave so as not be left out of "the next big thing"...maybe I will feel more included in a following surge or shift for another kind of design, who knows...
I am certainly not a professional, though... - You can call me George
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- WBoro
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xtianus wrote:
Wait, you're getting off track. The new site is good and millions of people visit the site each day. The old site wasn't bad it was alright but the new site is a hell of a lot better. Furthermore, you'd be blind not to see the trends that are occurring and act accordingly.No, I'm not getting off-track. I'm simply making points that you don't want to consider. The new site gets millions of visitors. The old site got millions of visitors. Neither version is particularly good.
xtianus wrote:I don't think anyone would want to be doing things "their own way" while the rest of the world is changing for the better.Your personal philosophy is not shared by everyone. The last thing I want to see is too many web sites that look basically the same. Vive la difference!
xtianus wrote:Now, everyone knows the 70's were better than the 80's but nevertheless the future of were we are now would not have existed without the experimentation and settling in of the "horrible 80's."There you go again, mistaking your opinion for fact.
xtianus wrote:I truly believe web design is changing, it is getting simpler and more efficient for the user experience. And, in that light I do think the weather.com has made amazing changes for the better and I think many other sites will follow the trend.I think you are going to be surprised at how many designers absolutely hate the 'herd mentality'.
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