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http://tlrobinson.net/misc/sequoia.html

by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

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gizmo• 17 years ago

No <marquee>? I'm disappointed.

Scriptor• 17 years ago

Might not work in all browsers, but check your status bar.

davidw• 17 years ago

It could definitely use a "this site best viewed with Mosaic 1.0" or something to that effect.

raquo• 17 years ago

Look at the status bar!

jrockway• 17 years ago

Wow, I really miss the days of black text on a gray background. * sniff

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slyn• 17 years ago

Expect it to make a glorious comeback because of OLEDs: http://static.arstechnica.com/amoled.jpg

source: http://arst.ch/60n

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timdorr• 17 years ago

Wow, trendy stuff. I'm going to have to start using that window.status trick they're using.

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icey2• 17 years ago

Needs more blink.

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jonursenbach• 17 years ago

And copy/pasted DHTML snowflake effects.

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tlrobinson6• 17 years ago

Apparently the BLINK tag doesn't actually work in some modern browsers, so I had to reimplement it in JavaScript. If you'd like to use it on your own site, here's the code:

    var blinkOn = 1;
    window.setInterval(function() {
        var blinks = document.getElementsByTagName("blink");
        for (var i = 0; i < blinks.length; i++)
            blinks[i].style.visibility = blinkOn ? "visible" : "hidden";
        blinkOn ^= 1;
    }, 500);

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icey2• 17 years ago

Well played, sir.

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ars4• 17 years ago

Just a small note - you should not explicitly set the visibility to "visible", set it to the empty string "" instead. This way you don't overwrite the default property if it was something else.

And you can skip the blinkOn variable by:

  blinks[i].style.visibility = blinks[i].style.visibility == "" ? "hidden" : "";

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catch23• 17 years ago

You don't need all that complexity. just use CSS:

text-decoration: blink

Works in FF 3.5

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zaidf• 17 years ago

Where the marquee at??

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nopassrecover• 17 years ago

Needs more of this site: http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.brucelawson.co.u...

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earle• 17 years ago

This is actually more informative than their current site!

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falsestprophet• 17 years ago

And at least on par with their last site as I remember

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aresant• 17 years ago

Fantastic. Their new site is ridiculous "look how trendy we are".

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gaborcselle• 17 years ago

I actually think their site is pretty cool / innovative.

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webwright• 17 years ago

Seriously?! If search engines had AI, I can see it being cool/innovative. With the current state of search technology, it's a usability disaster.

Problem #1 - language. Is their portfolio page called "portfolio"? Or "companies we've invested in?" Is their contact page called "contact"? Or "Get in touch?" Do they have a blog? Searching for "blog" seems to indicate that they don't-- unless it's called something other than "blog". Search is hard and they are making their users play "guess the right search query" when a scan/browse action would be easier and less error prone.

Problem #2 - scan-ability. So say I AM interest in learning more about their portfolio. Roughly what types of companies do they back (what's the search query to answer that question?)? What have they backed most recently (again, what search query?)? Who works there (a search for partners suggests "Energy (partners)")? Scanning is a huge part of web behavior.

Problem #3 - discoverability. What about what I'm NOT searching for? They have some GREAT content around how to pitch VCs, what ideas are VC-worthy, etc. With a content-free page, there is a 0% chance of me learning about stuff that I didn't know I was looking for.

Problem #4 - SPELLING. Take a look at their partner page (if you can find it). Are there any names there that you might have trouble spelling/searching for if you heard it at a dinner party last night?

We don't have to guess with usability. What they SHOULD have done is write down 5 tasks that people might do at their site and had a few friends run a few informal tests.

I'm willing to turn in my UX designer badge if my guess is wrong and this UI increases task performance speed and reduces errors.

Hrm, as I consider it-- I guess your comment doesn't dispute all that. It probably can be cool, innovative, AND a usability disaster.

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mrtron• 17 years ago

Man I love that under construction animated gif.

That was a standard on all sites for so many years...

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jamesjyu• 17 years ago

yeah, because really, when is a site not under construction??

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antidaily• 17 years ago

I lol'd.

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rabidsnail• 17 years ago

It's a webpage from the future! All of the tags are lowercase and some of them have these "style=" attributes with some weird programming language in them!

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thomasswift• 17 years ago

The top text blinks.... Plus 1000 points

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sirech• 17 years ago

needs a bright green background to emphasize the tree connection.

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hughprime• 17 years ago

What, and lose Netscape 1.0 support?

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nostrademons• 17 years ago

Also missing the punch-the-monkey banner.

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JoelSutherland• 17 years ago

A colleague of mine wrote about agencies moving to this odd, search-style site a few months back:

http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/big-ad-agency-websites...

It just doesn't make any sense. It's not even trendy.

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wkdown• 17 years ago

I can understand submitting this link to Digg / Reddit / 4Chan.

But why here? It's nonsense

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ars4• 17 years ago

Yah, it does seem that way.

It's actually a list of companies that Sequoia Capitol has invested in. So it's sort of an in joke given the startup focus this site has.

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tlrobinson6• 17 years ago

It was actually inspired by this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772027

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kwamenum86• 17 years ago

Many more of those companies should have gotten the "Cool" animated gif...

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whalesalad• 17 years ago

Was spelling capital wrong part of the parody too?

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tlrobinson6• 17 years ago

Yes.

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zandorg• 17 years ago

OMG so hilarious!

Budd Ugly is a classic of web design parody, except that my buddy (a hypertext legend) thought it was a real site!

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ars4• 17 years ago

Doesn't validate, you have a </P> tag - what is that? Everyone knows you don't close your <P> tags.

What's that extra slash after the BR and HR?

And </li>?? Since when?

Where did you learn to program HTML?

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tlrobinson6• 17 years ago

Sheesh, sorry. I fixed it, per your suggestions. Also, all tags and attributes are capitalized, and there's no quotes around attribute values.

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