The Perfect Website

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:46 am

Hey,
had this thought about 4AM this morning; What would be the perfect website in your opinion? As for me, my perfect website would bring all my RSS Feeds, Technology News, My bookmarks, links to my favorite websites, new mail messages, and a nice search function for Google

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So what\'s yours? Let\'s hear it

/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' /> No existing websites

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Sylo-X- · Post by **Sylo-X-** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:30 am

My perfect website is my google homepage =)

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:00 am

pfffft.. Can\'t be already existing websites. kthnx.

Gadget · Post by **Gadget** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:48 am

its more of a microsoft explorer sort of view, but it would be great!

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Post by **Tami** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:59 am

It would be great if said website would filter out all of the \"fluffy stuff\" in news stories or knowledge articles and just present the pertinent facts - pointform news stories would be fine with me. Plus a fast loading site, that would be nifty. The site would have to have a huge bookmark db to list all of my bookmarks LOL... 0.o

Endo · Post by **Endo** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:00 pm

Lol Dren, your perfect website is basically live.com ;p minus the google search. I dont think i could define a perfect website in honesty, having everything there would just be to easy lol

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:32 am

\"my perfect website would bring all my RSS Feeds, Technology News, My bookmarks, links to my favorite websites, new mail messages, and a nice search function for Google\"

so basically the google customisable homepage...

it does RSS feeds (as topics), it does tech news, you can add bookmarks and favourites, it can do gmail (and others via plugins) and it has google search... heh

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:39 am

No...not Google IG. Google still lacks things that I would want. It doesn\'t do bookmarks (Sure, it does for like an external site. That\'s no fun.), it doesn\'t do my favorite links, and it\'s design is simple, yet sort of ugly. And did you read the full first post and the posts after that? \"No existing websites\"...same goes to you shane

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Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:12 am

yes i did read it but we were just noting what you asked for is just basically a slightly modded google IG

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plus as for the no existing websites bit... i dont think either of us said that an existing website was \"our\" idea of a perfect website

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personally i think there is no such thing as perfection... as what i may find useful at this second may not be what i need in say... a weeks time

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I suppose the closest i can come to a perfect website would be for a site to encompass all new technologies... XHTML framework, CSS3 style, DOM behaviour, javascript with AJAX embedding, XML for serverside. For that site to be designed to ALL web standards (Design Standards, Accessibility, Usability, etc) EG: WAI, 508, WCAG. For it to be small in size, fast, contain no advertising, have only good content and for it to not break conventions or not work in ANY browser, text or graphical.

Yes that is what a perfect website would probably be... however it is impossible to meet all of the guidelines for web standards (literally it cant be done as some contradict each other), it is impossible to meet usability and accessibility and design principles for the same reason. And a downside of it using good modern technologies would be the lack of support by all browsers. So as I said before... perfection is impossible.

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ner0 · Post by **ner0** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:47 am

Alex, you make good points, however that\'d mean someone could make a website adhering to endless guidelines... yet only have the content \"HI\" and it\'d be your perfect website?

c\'mon, what content do you want? =P

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:27 am

I\'m not looking at a literal sense here. I mean a perfect website with content...not all this design usability color theory ajax infested css3 powered website.

Now before anyone does, when I say perfect content, don\'t go saying \"Not every bit of content isn\'t going to have typos\". Sheesh..literal people *smacks yall*

ner0 · Post by **ner0** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:51 pm

you forgot *except paul*

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:28 pm

+except paul

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:00 am

i dont think there is any content that would really make me sit up and go WOW, mabie im just a shallow developer but i look at websites for their beauty (both external on the site look and internal from the coding point of view), i mean a website already exists for pratically everything already

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i guess the site I find most useful is probably IMDB, i love movies and Amazons database (IMDB) is the best source on movies.

Sylo-X- · Post by **Sylo-X-** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:15 am

Okay. Here we go.

My website would be the coolest website in the world. It would be a bright blue background with bright red text and would have content such as "w31com3 j03 j00 ar3 teh aw3s0m3".
Yes that would be prefect.
And it would be infested with the stupidest flash games in the world. And it would use a webcam and see my boss coming and switch my perfect website to some pie chart or something. Then it would have technology news that made no sense or meaning to anyone...cause those are the best kinds of tech news. such as "the top ten worst inventions ever made" yes...perfection CAN be acheaved...losers

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:41 am

Sylo >.< I said no existing websites.. That\'s MySpace Profiles!

Sylo-X- · Post by **Sylo-X-** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:20 am

Please do not mention the poorly designed and coded myspace profiles around me ever again. Ill never shut up about them...

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Josh · Post by **Josh** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:35 am

/zipped.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(zip)\' /> Okay, sir

/blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' /> My profile is pretty though

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Vercz · Post by **Vercz** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:24 pm

hey mines pretty good...

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Josh · Post by **Josh** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:04 pm

lol... Everyone seems in shock at your facial hair....this something new to them? lol

Vercz · Post by **Vercz** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:46 am

yeah, i surprise grew it over the holidays

/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' /> being a geek is good for surprising people. didnt see anyone for a month or so, came back to school... BAM! beard =)

Sylo-X- · Post by **Sylo-X-** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:56 pm

I changed the layout on my myspace. Iv'e been liking green more then blue latley. myspace.com/lost__wishes

to@ds · Post by **to@ds** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:01 pm

For me the perfect website is quite simple really. Its basicaly what any website should do; be nice and easy to navigate, well laid out, concise, easy on the eye and deliver its chosen topic or service in a way thats easy to understand/use. Above all of that, I think it should put the user first, just in the way Killagraphix does with friendly staff and users with a wide range of skill and common interests. I think a good example of what I mean is www.bbc.co.uk Which has a huge wealth of information and I mean huge, is kept upto date to the minute, has huge archives of programes the BBC produce in both radio and TV and is nice and easy to use, and one I use everyday.