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.
Elliot Jay Stocks 27 April 2009, 04:48
#1
Amen. I really have no idea why they would omit a hover state.
devolute 27 April 2009, 04:49
#2
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?
Dave Ellis 27 April 2009, 04:56
#3
I have to say, I hate it when hovers aren’t on a site – it may as well be a big jpeg.
Chris Wallace 27 April 2009, 05:07
#4
Wait, they have a website?
Ethan 27 April 2009, 05:17
#5
For the Basecampers in the house, this one gets my vote:
pre { overflow: auto; }
Spencer Fry 27 April 2009, 06:36
#6
The “world is flat”?
Cyprian Gwóźdź 27 April 2009, 08:57
#7
Cool. I love irony and stinging sarcasm :-)
Spencer Lavery 28 April 2009, 00:33
#8
Crikey, that really does seem like a huge oversight for a company focused on usability.
Nebbercracker 28 April 2009, 02:42
#9
Hahahaha = “you can have this one for free”. I love it!
Matt 28 April 2009, 03:55
#10
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.
Ian 28 April 2009, 04:40
#11
Well said. Without it, that site looks like a bad pilot episode of “Flashback 2000: When JPEGs Ruled the Web.”
Thibaut Allender 28 April 2009, 05:25
#12
Well, you could apply this “patch” to any website ;-)
G 28 April 2009, 06:33
#13
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.
:D
Dan 29 April 2009, 02:29
#15
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.
Pete 29 April 2009, 02:31
#16
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 ;)
Mr Chambers 29 April 2009, 23:14
#17
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.
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