I can't work out if this website is awful or genius
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
It's called retro, popular everywhere except in IT :D This guy nailed it though :omg:
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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It's called retro, popular everywhere except in IT :D This guy nailed it though :omg:
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
I was going to say the same thing, more or less. The fan speed on my laptop went way up when the page loaded. A lot going on there. :laugh:
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
More common sense then genius. Advertising and all that goes with that, is what that site is all about. Keep your UI/UIX books, they are still relevant. :-D
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
In the US there is (was?) a newspaper for the theater trade called VARIETY. There's an old saw about what actors, etc., felt: "I don't care what you write about me, as long as you spell my name correctly." Fit's perfectly - who'd ever want to bother looking at the site? Now it's forwarded all over the world because of look - and isn't that the point - traffic and name recognition? !
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
Well, it stands out by being as gimmicky as possible, so it seems like that's working for them. On the other hand, I'd have to surrender my programmer license and take up goat farming if I'd written that site! According to Chrome Dev Tools, it took 13.3 seconds to fully load, and DOMContentLoaded didn't fire until the 5 second mark. It also appears to animate some parts of the page by continually downloading video from the server. Right now, I'm up to 841 requests and 28.7MB transferred. I suspect that the page size is theoretically infinite, since it never appears to stop downloading. Let's hope nobody who has a transfer cap accidentally leaves this site running in a background tab.
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
I remember this place when it first opened. It's located in the North East of England, and its site attracted a lot of hilarity here. I guess they have the last laugh.
This space for rent
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I remember this place when it first opened. It's located in the North East of England, and its site attracted a lot of hilarity here. I guess they have the last laugh.
This space for rent
Yeah, I saw her on The Dragon's Den (called "Shark Tank" in America I think). That's just her advertising "style", to grab attention at all costs and hope people shop. Not sure if it works or not TBH, I suppose it does on some people but she'll undoubtedly lose others. That style of site is still popular in some Asian countries though. I worked on a global platform once and all the countries had much the same layout and colours so it wasn't a big deal to migrate them all to the same platform, apart from either Thailand or Malaysia, I forget which....but it looked just like Ling Cars and that's how they wanted it to stay.
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
Did you do a "view source"? Awesome.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Did you do a "view source"? Awesome.
cheers Chris Maunder
That is totally bad ass :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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Did you do a "view source"? Awesome.
cheers Chris Maunder
:thumbsup:
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Did you do a "view source"? Awesome.
cheers Chris Maunder
Just did that before reading your comment - some real skill there.. :laugh: I particularly liked the javascript at the bottom:
// console.log("Welcome to LINGsCARS! Please help me, Ling's got me chained on her basement coding this website, HELP.");
And no table layouts! Yay! :thumbsup:
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
I vote awful. It honestly doesn't take the latest technology or even a lot of effort or programming chops to come up with something more modern looking.
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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Did you do a "view source"? Awesome.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Did you do a "view source"? Awesome.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
She was on Dragon's Den (US - Shark Tank) a few years ago and appeared as mad as a box of frogs!
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
Just took a gander at her Twitter page. This lady is a riot! Don't know if that is a good thing. :doh:
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Apparently it's a hugely successful business LingsCars[^] and maybe the website is deliberately awful to stand out. I think I've been doing it wrong all these years. Time to throw out all the books on UI / UX and just throw the kitchen sink at my next project :-D
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
Well, I can top that... (or at least equal that). Do not open if your an epileptic. Here you go![^] :wtf:
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