Re: OT: Artlanging is now mainstream

* David J. Peterson said on 2009-02-19 10:33:02 +0100
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 12∞32 AM, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> >    http://blog.nihilarchitect.net/archives/161/161/
> >
> > Warning, it's both long and ranty and a bit angsty.
>
> I have to say, he's got me pegged on web design!
We know :)

> Half the time, I really don't know what I'm doing, /../
We know :)

> and I usually end up producing these monstrosities that work most of
> the time on most browsers that, when I learn the "right" way to do
> things, need to be gutted and rewritten. I'd like to be better at all
> this, but I'm just so damn lazy... (I don't know if I hope he
> navigates to other pages on my site, or hope he doesn't, lest he find
> out how little I know about PHP, too!)
The clue has always been to keep it very simple, without javascript, and
when it is usable everywhere, then start adding the bells n' whistles.

Oh and maybe not use colors that makes other people's eyes bleed :p

> > I dunno, but it resembles those sections in Monty Python's "Life of
> > Brian" where the People's Front of Judea is more busy fighting the
> > Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front and the
> > Popular Front of Judea etc. instead of fighting the romans.
>
> Kind of, except without the front. This is just one guy out in the
> boonies screaming at the rain.
The Judean Popular People's Front was also one guy: splitter!!! :)


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