How important is "web design" to you as someone browsing the web?

Tee Hee Johnson said:
I’m losing interest in the design/ui/ux these days, the thing that gets in my way is cookie/analytics prompts.

I feel I judge a site these days before I even get to the site!
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Unfortunately down to not wanting to get sued, these things are someone mandatory these days.
 
The most important factor for me is ease of use rather than looks. As long as I can find what I need your site to provide quickly amd its not frustrating to use thats good enough.
 
radderfire said:
All the cookie prompts are very annoying. Who actually asked for them? No-one. They just ruin the experience of surfing the web.
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Maybe so but they’re now critical for tracking on Google products like Analytics and are mandatory for using Google’s ad platform.

It’s an industry wide nightmare, Analytics tracks around 40-60% of what it use to because users(rightly or wrongly) can opt out.

It’s just the nature of the beast.
 
radderfire said:
All the cookie prompts are very annoying. Who actually asked for them? No-one. They just ruin the experience of surfing the web.
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Classic example of bad regulation. They should have mandated limits on data collection and handling instead of polluting the web these prompts. I use an extension to handle them but doesn't work on mobile unfortunately.
 
radderfire said:
All the cookie prompts are very annoying. Who actually asked for them? No-one. They just ruin the experience of surfing the web.
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It became law, the overhead in having every site having to implement these is silly. It would have been a lot better to mandate that browsers have to handle the summarisation and acceptance of cookies.
 
I think this depends more on how static your content is. Nothing wrong with the simplicity of Bootstrap but from a site maintenance point of view you might be better with a CMS which you maybe able to use Bootstrap as the theming framework but this would just be prettying up the back end. Some CMS frameworks are headless so the point of using one is for it to be the source of truth for a particular content type or types and it would just provide the admin back end structure including screens / pages. Some also provide an API for the content type(s) you create. Therefore having one source of truth to manage the content but you can build multiple front ends as required, web, mobile etc. If you think you'd want a mobile front end as well it might be worth considering React Native, one framework and codebase that could satisfy web and mobile. You also need to consider audience size and location as to how you implement the database side of things to cope with scaling and data redundancy to cope with failovers.
 
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Cromulent said:
I'm building a website and wanted some feedback. I'm a programmer with zero design skills so I've been using a prebuilt CSS framework (Bootstrap 5) to build my website. It is a highly technical site so doesn't have to look flashy or anything. I've seen some other sites in my niche which are also very simple in terms of design and they seem to be doing ok.

My main goal is to present the information in a fast manner so I don't want to require downloading kilobytes of JS and CSS just to view the website. I'll also be using a CDN to speed things up.

What is your view on this topic? Do you leave sites if they look "plain" or not very interactive?
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I only want interactivity if it improves the access to the information. Or the experience. Most of the time it doesn't.
 
I moved away from HTML/CSS 25 years ago and now focus on the content and use CMS. I am aware of the downsides but life’s to short.
 
throwaway4372 said:
This scrolling thing does my head in.

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I hate sites like this and will pretty much get out of them as soon as I can.

Meanwhile, someone somewhere is probably thinking, "how cool am I to create such a cool website".
 
Nabinium said:
@Cromulent speaking of websites, how did your website build turn out in the end? Managed to launch it?
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I got to a certain point and then realised there was quite a lot of stuff I didn't know or needed to refresh my knowledge of so I put it on the back burner for the time being. I still have plans to pick it back up though.
 
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