Monday, May 29, 2006

Tom, stop screwing around and hire this guy

Again, through diggdot.us, another great link. This is a sample design that someone suggested replace the main myspace.com look. To tom's credit, the current myspace.com intro page isnt that bad, but it would be a lot nicer if some of the user pages on myspace.com looked more like this.

Myspace layout redesign on deviantart.com

Please Tom, listen to them, and hire some web developers to clean the place up, and work very very hard at improving the default templates for people, because you have single handedly effected a time warp back 10 years in web design.

The phrase "you're website needs more fire", comes to mind in how to describe the average myspacer page. You should not give newbies this kind of power without training wheels.

It drives me mad that on half of the myspace pages out there I have to employ the horizontal scroll bar on 1280x1024 resolution. What the hell is up with that.

Some sites look moderately decent, like HipDave's page, where they are fairly clean, no freakish background, but then you get stuff like Tritonworld page, where you have some okay graphics, but the layout gets completely screwy.

And why oh why do we have to see every single freaking comment on the same page. Let the users have some other pages in here, maybe categories, this all on one page shit is madness. Now, maybe it's a bad mark against the general populace that this madness worked, but you have an opportunity to help improve the web dev skills of millions of young people. These people are actually interested in making better pages, throw them a bone and give them some automated tools to do so.

2 Comments:

At 8:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

the phrase ``your website needs mandatory ssl login'' should be of considerably more concern.

--Toasty

 
At 9:39 PM, Blogger JonnyRo said...

Yea, such a simple thing to implement. Maybe they were worried about the server load.

A lot of these startups are running right up against capacity limits for most of their lifespan. It makes sense however that since they were acquired, that more money be spent on security.

 

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