P. J. Alling wrote: > Mark Roberts wrote: >> P. J. Alling wrote: >> >>> Interesting. Gimmicky yet pretentious. >>> >> Funny, but "pretentious" is the one word I wouldn't apply to it. They >> just present the images without a lot of twaddle. That and the quality >> of photography pretty much sum up the few good things I have to say, though. >> > Their over all design is quite, pretentious. Think about it, this is a > site for someone who's never deigned to use a web site before. They're > quite consciously invoking the interface of a paper book, which is > somehow better than the metaphor used in general web design. Oh yes, > pretentious it is.
That's not pretentiousness, it's oversimplification. Thought the result doesn't work well, I admire their attempt to simplify the typical web interface, which is quite preferable to the common tactic of making it more complex. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
