Good home page?

**Ocean1** · 2nd August 2007, 09:23

What do you think?

http://search.grainbox.com/

**ZeroIndex** · 2nd August 2007, 09:42

nah, still prefer this one

**avgas** · 2nd August 2007, 10:01

nah this one

**imdying** · 2nd August 2007, 11:19

Apart from the worst laid out page ever, it's a good concept.

**Filterer** · 2nd August 2007, 12:33

Originally Posted by imdying

Apart from the worst laid out page ever, it's a good concept.

+1..........

**Ocean1** · 2nd August 2007, 12:59

Originally Posted by imdying

Apart from the worst laid out page ever, it's a good concept.

Probably because it wasn't so much "designed" (as in the modern marketing sense) as sorta congeled together (by a plain but well sorted techie).

**FlangMasterJ** · 2nd August 2007, 13:57

I stumbled upon this jewel a few weeks back http://www.google.co.nz/

**Zuki Bandit** · 4th August 2007, 18:51

This ones a shocka!

**ZeroIndex** · 4th August 2007, 21:44

and then there's this one

**xwhatsit** · 5th August 2007, 01:45

It's ugly as sin and is hardly the epitome of good HCI design, but it's fast-loading and useful. If I was the type of person who uses a mouse a lot I'd consider this, but as a user of Vimperator and myriad Firefox `quick searches' I already have the ability to do what this page offers.

Homepage set to blank. If I want to search Wiktionary, I just hit Ctrl-L and type `wk SomeWordIDon'tUnderstand'. Google is `g'. Wikipedia is `wp'. Allmusic is `am'.

Your page (you are the designer, I assume?) is a close approximation of this for mouse users. Pretty it up, lay it out more sensibly, put some Google text ads at the right of the screen and you might be able to get some money for beer if you're lucky.

**Disco Dan** · 5th August 2007, 01:55

You cant beat this for your home page... makes kiwis feel right at home...

http://tinyurl.com/2j7zvr

**Bren** · 5th August 2007, 09:22

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

You cant beat this for your home page... makes kiwis feel right at home...

http://tinyurl.com/2j7zvr

OH MY SWEET MUTHAFUKA, That is some sick shit....I LOVE IT!

**Ocean1** · 5th August 2007, 14:33

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

It's ugly as sin and is hardly the epitome of good HCI design, but it's fast-loading and useful. If I was the type of person who uses a mouse a lot I'd consider this, but as a user of Vimperator and myriad Firefox `quick searches' I already have the ability to do what this page offers.

Homepage set to blank. If I want to search Wiktionary, I just hit Ctrl-L and type `wk SomeWordIDon'tUnderstand'. Google is `g'. Wikipedia is `wp'. Allmusic is `am'.

Your page (you are the designer, I assume?) is a close approximation of this for mouse users. Pretty it up, lay it out more sensibly, put some Google text ads at the right of the screen and you might be able to get some money for beer if you're lucky.

I didn't design it, (but I know who did) and I agree it looks crude, but I like it.

And no, I don't use a mouse (much), I use a spaceball.

**xwhatsit** · 5th August 2007, 21:07

Originally Posted by Ocean1

I didn't design it, (but I know who did) and I agree it looks crude, but I like it.

And no, I don't use a mouse (much), I use a spaceball.

Spaceball! Wicked

They're pretty rarely seen these days, but recently I was in one company's labs where they do work on navigation systems and spend a lot of time with maps. They all had trackballs, might've been spaceballs. Apparently ideal for scrolling around huge maps.

It does look crude; there's nothing wrong with that (except for marketing to the general public). The interface I spend most of my time looking at is nothing more than white text on a black background, can't get much cruder than that. However there are a couple of usability concerns with the interface, such as better `tabbing' order, textbox/label alignment etc. But I take it it was written by a programmer, and for a programmer those things are perfectly acceptable

I, too, detest the HCI side of programming.