How to improve 37signals.com with 1 line of CSS Rant
27th April 2009 at 4am 17 Comments Tweet a link to this on Twitter ↩
Dear 37signals — You can have this one for free. — Love Sam :)
a:hover {opacity: 0.75;}
The boys at 37signals have clearly forgotten they are designing for an interactive medium and have instead redesigned with a great looking site that’s about as flat and static as you can get.
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Amen. I really have no idea why they would omit a hover state.
Steady now. I’m sure this is a WiP; we’re all waiting for some made javascript slidey touchy feely thing to go off, right?
I have to say, I hate it when hovers aren’t on a site – it may as well be a big jpeg.
For the Basecampers in the house, this one gets my vote:
pre { overflow: auto; }
Crikey, that really does seem like a huge oversight for a company focused on usability.
There seem to be a few designers who are considered to be industry leading, yet totally neglect basic usability principles.
Take Andy Clarke’s website promoting web design workshops – http://forabeautifulweb.com/ – a shocking example of usability design with links extremely hard to find. His website functions better if you just remove the page styling all together.
Well said. Without it, that site looks like a bad pilot episode of “Flashback 2000: When JPEGs Ruled the Web.”
Dear Sam Brown — You can have this one for free. — Love G :)
1. body {font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;}The dude at this website have clearly forgotten he are designing for an interactive medium and need to know that “lucida grande” & “lucida sans” looks like shit on Firefox on Windows XP.
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Amen, indeed!
Sites that don’t feature hover states on links are one of my pet hates. Just yesterday I critiqued a site on WebForumz.com with this same problem. I used a tone a lot more blunt and negative than yours and the criticism was still well recieved. Ryan Carson needs to stop being such a baby.
God bless the hover!
@G: If it’s good enough for FaceBook, Wordpress et al – I reckon the PC world will learn to survive, perhaps even support the Lucida revolution. And Derek’s right – it looks sweet on Mac ;)
I stumbled across this on thinkvitamin.com, read the post about negativity and wanted to come on here and buck the trend. but… well… after visiting 37signals I have to agree with Sam. Damn.