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Kent Sharkey wrote: Stamp collecting is a hobby too, you know people.
Do people still collect them since they became self-adhesive?
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Like this one?[^]
I come across this often enough, the huge fonts, little content, infinite vertical cheezy text and graphics that sort of fits in "chunks" on my monitor...
Personally, I think they suck. There's usually nothing meaningful on them, etc.
Marc
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Perhaps one of these: Single-page application [^]
For when you don't have anything to say...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Ah yes, Bootstrap abuse.
Don't get me wrong, I like and use Bootstrap. Even in it's un-skinned form. Things like the grid layout and the nav menu components make it too easy to not use.
But when someone starts using the same actual layout as the Bootstrap site? That sort of thing needs to be addressed with large quantities of fire.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Personally, I think they suck.
I agree. They are good, however, when you have no content, because a person who glances at your content will _think_ that you have content. 
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newton.saber wrote: a person who glances at your content will _think_ that you have content
Ah, yes, the old sock-in-the-pants trick. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Like a PowerPoint, scroll down to see the next slide. One can see the attention-span of their target-audience
Marc Clifton wrote: There's usually nothing meaningful on them
It's not MSDN, that's true.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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tl;dr - crap...
IMHO content is a different story - the design does not suck because the lack of content, but because of bad design...These are the main issues:
1. Scroll across different 'pages' but not stop between them, so even there was meaningful content you probably were loosing attention
2. Too much type-faces - kind and size and flavor. You never know on what to focus, so your eyes jump all over the 'page' without reading it really
3. Awful color schemes in 'pages' and between 'pages', that again makes the content unreachable...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
modified 8-Jul-14 9:06am.
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They're really great when you're trying to squeeze your signal to noise ratio as close to zero as possible.
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I don't very much dislike the layout (it's pretty modern and stuff, like you say, huge fonts and little content).
It's not functional, but it looks pretty.
What is particulary wrong with this website is that it doesn't tell you what it is they do.
Handling Exceptions? So whenever my software fails to create an invoice Airbrake knows what to do (without me actually having to do anything)? Seems really very unlikely.
In .NET it's quite easy to just log every Exception anyway. Once they're in the database you can filter all you like and most of the time they're pretty easy to fix anyway (Object not set to instance of an object at [Stacktrace]).
I can't find anything about their product in .NET except that it is actually possible...
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Fisher Price websites, inspired by Fisher Price operating systems...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Wow, tough crowd.
I don't really mind the UI design itself (I've seen better implementation).
But since I have no clue what it is all about....
"Iron.io has created a great new Airbrake agent for the New Relic platform. The agent grabs data from your Airbrake account and ..."
WTF does that mean?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I will say - Trendy!
When done right they can quickly convey the gist of the website.
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I find them informative and helpful, in that they inform me that there's nothing here, and help me to move along to someplace more useful.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I notice it's for some Ruby mess.... ptschaw.
i think a lot of the motivaton for these designs is to make the "responsive web" that much easier to implement... 
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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I've always assumed it was so they could guarantee the same experience on anything from a 3.5" fondleslab to a 36" desktop. that even if there's real content (which people using that style often forget) the experience is horrible on anything but tiny fondle slabs probably doesn't occur to the sunshines writing them because they have their fondleslab surgically embedded in their palm and never use anything else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The artists impression of the jet emissions[^] from the pdf press release[^] is pretty though; and the inset explains it pretty well without the text.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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If it is in a galaxy far, far away, it must be The Maw[^]
I'd rather be phishing!
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"D" was the next big thing back when I was in college learning "C", 14 years ago.
Has something changed?
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I think they stole the name. Read the article.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Nah, it's the language from 2001. Read the wiki page[^].
Note the reference to both Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu.
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Walter Bright decided to start working on a new language in 1999. D was first released in December 2001 ...
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Nope - it was lauded as the next big thing when I was at university as well - 30 years ago.
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