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Cluttered websites, too many fonts/colours and generally over-"busy"
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Zeyneb:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on September 04, 2020, 12:40:21 pm ---Almost all Chinese websites are pretty much a waste of time, except maybe PCB Way. Most of these manufacturers have no idea that a well designed and informative website that provides value-add will help their marketing enormously. China has a long way to go.

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I'm wondering how chinese target audience would think about that. Does it bother them to a degree to decline doing business with a company which has a website like that? Maybe some of our chinese members can share their opinion about that?


--- Quote from: VK3DRB on September 04, 2020, 12:44:09 pm ---You forgot www.ibm.com. Full of marketing verbal diarrhoea, severely lacking in content.

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Alright IBM too. But for my own well-being I try to forget about those marketing diarrhoea experiences.  I don't think we do need IBM IT services right? I know some small dutch webshop where the owner put on his website something along "If you don't like what we are offering, take your business elsewhere!" But you know he does add meaningful specification to the products he is offering. I love that.
Rick Law:

--- Quote from: Jeroen3 on September 04, 2020, 06:07:04 am ---The entire webpage is loaded in 800 ms. Impressive these days.

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This looks like a "brain dump" by folks wanting to share knowledge/information - focused on substance and not appearance.  More like pages of notes rather than pages from text books.  In notes, only the important point with illustration needs would warrant a quick sketch, the rest are scribbles.  Want better pictures?  Go to the million-page text book and hunt.

In my opinion, the cited webpage is not bad at all.  It lacks just one thing: a better way to identify "Lesson" (main topic). 

Right now, the header for the lessons use similar font as sections under the lesson, so one has to look for the words "Lesson P..." in something like "Lesson P4 - Bitmap Functions on the Atari Lynx" to be able to identify it as start of lesson.  It would make lesson start a lot more distinctive if they use a different color for it.  Once one realizes "Lesson P..." starts a lesson, it became less of an issue but an issue still.  A "Lesson List" right at the top of page would remedy that, and making that list active with links to the appropriate line would be great.

The speed made up for a lot of faults.  One could scroll very quickly to scan up or down for the topic (lesson).  It is easy to miss but the speed made up for it - largely but not totally.

I prefer this over the overly active pages.  Substance vs Appearance, for me, substance wins.
magic:

--- Quote ---too many fonts/colours and generally over-"busy"
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Just have Asperger's instead of photoepilepsy, problem solved ::)

But the menus should be on the left.
floobydust:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on September 04, 2020, 12:40:21 pm ---Digikey's website is cluttered and busy, but it works a treat [...]
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Digikey's website is terrible, it's slow and bloated, full of analytics and buggy programming.
Here (pic) it's sorted by ascending capacitance, seeing anything stupid? It's doing a Radix sort or something. Sometimes it returns no hits yet I know the part exists and can find it.

When I complain to Digikey,  the response is "have you tried clearing the browser's cache?", "have you tried another browser?". I tell them this isn't a browser issue but they don't understand.
Also, the top 25% of my screen is a wasted flymenu that never seems to work/display properly or be good for anything. I could go on with bugs and gripes, but I think this is a better example of what OP is upset about.

It's getting worse at mega-corporations because their web developers are clueless about the content and just keep adding shit to justify their existence. I'm sad Digikey's website is going backwards as far as customer experience, it used to be a killer website.
Rick Law:

--- Quote from: floobydust on September 05, 2020, 06:00:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on September 04, 2020, 12:40:21 pm ---Digikey's website is cluttered and busy, but it works a treat [...]
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Digikey's website is terrible, it's slow and bloated, full of analytics and buggy programming.
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Buggy website makes me worry about their security.  With a commerce sites where you have payment info, for me that is a cause for concern.
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