[HN Gopher] A Dao of Web Design (2000)
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       A Dao of Web Design (2000)
        
       Author : hypertexthero
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-08-25 15:08 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (alistapart.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (alistapart.com)
        
       | blueridge wrote:
       | A List Apart still has one of the most calm and readable websites
       | on the Internet. It is perfect and it should never change.
        
         | esafak wrote:
         | Is the huge title background supposed to be obscured by the
         | menu? That doesn't look right to me. Even apart from that the
         | whole design looks off. Too many font sizes. Unwarranted visual
         | emphasis; who cares if there are no comments yet? I'm not going
         | to comment to 'fix it'. And "Become a patron" is capitalized
         | but "no comments yet" is not. This is not a site I would turn
         | to for advice.
        
           | phailhaus wrote:
           | Yeah I just tried to scroll up since it looks cut off.
        
           | pcurve wrote:
           | It's been like that for a long time and it's an intentional
           | design element. They could get away with it because the site
           | used to a bible for most web designers and had huge brand
           | recognition
        
       | hypertexthero wrote:
       | Good to read this article again from time to time.
       | 
       | Redarding the Tao Te Ching, my favorite translation is this one:
       | https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html
        
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