Another pearl is the Sheldon Brown bicycle repair site: https://www.sheldonbrown.com , the content is so good people maintain it even though he passed away.
If you ever want to take a peek at the “man behind curtain” read http://lite.cnn.com/en and compare it to the sensory overload that is their homepage.
When you peel back the css and javascript you’ll find there is very little substance. Furthermore, the writing is perhaps on a 5th grade level, maybe lower.
Thanks for the response! And I agree, it's like some sites just don't have content. I have nothing against videos, images, CSS, and JavaScript (hey, I am professionally a frontend developer :)) but often it is just not motivated.
In a way, I think this trend is downgrading to people if you can say that in English. Most people are not stupid, they see through it - I think, or I hope. It would be ok (even extremely motivated) with spectacular imagery and so on if it for instance was a Design site, but quite a few sites where there is no such link seems to think that visitors can't 'see' that they have nonsense Stock-images instead of real content.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 24.6 ms ] threadIf you ever want to take a peek at the “man behind curtain” read http://lite.cnn.com/en and compare it to the sensory overload that is their homepage.
When you peel back the css and javascript you’ll find there is very little substance. Furthermore, the writing is perhaps on a 5th grade level, maybe lower.
Long live excellent content!
In a way, I think this trend is downgrading to people if you can say that in English. Most people are not stupid, they see through it - I think, or I hope. It would be ok (even extremely motivated) with spectacular imagery and so on if it for instance was a Design site, but quite a few sites where there is no such link seems to think that visitors can't 'see' that they have nonsense Stock-images instead of real content.
Nicely put btw: 'sensory overload'.