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Am I the only one sick and tired of rounded corners on everything? Can we please stop using them for every damned Web interface? They’re perfectly acceptible for “Hello Kitty World” or “Barbie’s Fashion Blog,” but for almost anything else I deem them unworthy of further attention.
While I’m at it, I would like to suggest that we stamp out using dotted underlines for links instead of good old reliable solid underlining. I don’t care if you want to leave off the underlining and only have it show up for hovering, but make it solid and forceful and gritty, for crying out loud!
Lastly, I have nothing against drop shadows or beveled edges. I am, in fact, a fan of interfaces that look like you could touch them, pick them up, lick them. I like floaty things (obviously) and visual tricks and all that, but at least try not to do what everyone else is doing. Yes, I have, in my time, copiedripped off other designer’s ideas, but I hope I managed to do something new and/or interesting with them and didn’t just bring them in wholesale.
Okay, now with that off my chest, I return you back to roaming the Web without worrying about how it’s presented to you.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Know what else is annoying? Stupid, boxed-in text, about 30 chars wide, that force you to scroll down every few seconds when you’ve a whole freaking wide page that could be used for layout.
Form should follow function, man.
Posted on January 6, 2006 11:29 AM
The only dotted underlines I’m seeing these days is the amazon produt links(from affiliate links). I haven’t found a way to sht these off.
Posted on January 7, 2006 1:54 AM
I find the design/layout of this blog to be far more horrific than anything you have mentioned.
Posted on January 8, 2006 10:40 PM
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