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Show HN: My Newest Design: ZigZagLab (zigzaglab.com)

28 points by sallar ↗ HN
I just finished working on my latest work, zigzaglab.com.

It's fluid-responsive and retina-ready. Everything has been achieved using only CSS3 (except for typekit and google map loaders).

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mullr
I like the typography. The fade effect needs to go. The color scheme on the maps page, while neat, doesn't make much sense to me in the context of the rest of the site.
sallar
Thanks. I tried many color schemes on the map page, I couldn't find what I wanted. Google's color wizard didn't help much.
meerita
+1 to fade effect out. It looks nice the first time, then it tires you like an old bull.
sallar
What if it just occurs on home page for the first time?
mullr
What's it for? If you can think of a reason to have it, then you should keep it.
ehsania
it's very stylish, clean and minimal.i look forward to see your new works.
yitchelle
Great effort! Not meaning to hijack your Show HN submission, I would be very interested to read about your back story of doing a startup in Iran.
sallar
Thank you:) Many people are doing startups in Iran, and it's not a new thing. Iran is a developing country but there is a good market for technology-related startups inside the country. Unfortunately, there aren't many investors so we have to invest our own.
yitchelle
Thanks for your quick insight. I would be interested in reading about cultural barriers to having a startup in Iran. From your launch, it looks like the technological barriers are being tackled successfully, and I think the capital barriers are yet to be tackled.
rgbrgb
Looks good. One note: a tiny English glitch that stood out to me was that you say to contact you "in" Twitter and Facebook. Generally people say "on". If anyone knows why that's the convention, I'm interested.
sallar
Thanks, corrected.
vstm
I think your site is great (I really like minimal designs). I have found another tiny typo under /contact, in the h5-tag: "to open up you email client" should be "to open up your email client".
msvan
Looks great, congratulations! It would be even better if you had an attention-grabbing picture on your index page, instead of just black text on a gray background.
sallar
Thank you :) Well I have that huge Cinema Display with a picture in it. But you need to scroll a little.
hoseiin
perfect responsive and minimal design . congratulation dear sallar .
lovskogen
The first thing I read on the page made it sound generic. "WE MAKE COOL STUFF FOR WEB AND SMARTPHONES." - who doesn't?
salvadornav
Definitely looks good, congrats. (a bit puzzled to see this #1 though)
sallar
Thanks. Well yeah me too.
retube
All I get is:

INTERNET EXPLORER? SERIOUSLY? Please come back with a modern browser.

ummm.... No. (could you be any more condescending or hipster or alienating?)

sallar
Well that should only happen on IE <= 8.
phryk
:D I used to do that on my personal websites, too. Probably will with the next one again.
seivan
I like this. It has nothing to do with hipstery. If you don't want clientele with IE, this is perfectly acceptable.
sallar
since IE 8 doesn't understand ANYTHING, I had to do this. The whole website is made using CSS3.
seivan
You did good, fuck IE and users who use them. Education by force. It could be good to show alternatives, and leave it at there. For the "enterprise" that can't change, well they can complain.
retube
Fine. But why sound like such a dick? How about "We're really sorry but this website only works with...." ? or whatever. With that kind of attitude, I can absolutely promise you I am NOT going to copy-paste this url into chrome or FF.

Am just trying to help. If you think that language is fine, go with it.

sallar
Thanks. We'll reconsider the copy writing.
m4tthumphrey
Crashed my machine for about 30 seconds. Pressed back as soon as it came back.
sallar
That shouldn't happen. There's no javascript. Pure CSS.
johnx123-up
OT: What upvoters like in this post? Or am I missing anything in my Chrome?
phryk
I really, really like the logo. Most companies today don't go through the effort of coming up with a good one (or with one at all), but yours does it's job very well. But yeah, the fade effect ought to go; Would be nice if it only happens the first time you go to the page (ie. when a session is initiated or the visitor comes from a referrer like google).
sallar
Thanks :) My good friend, Arash Asghari designed this logo. and yes, I'll fix the fading thing.
seivan
Most people here seem to miss the fact that these guys are operating from Tehran, instead chose to complain about lack of IE support, transition or generic headline. Fuck you, fuck IE. I particularly like the fuck IE stance. You have every right to do so on your site.

Good work guys, keep it up.

davorb
It looks nice. How are you dealing with US companies (if at all)? I think that's interesting considering the embargo.
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nbevans
Works okay on IE10. Don't like the design though; just looks like yet another generic hipster Web design firm.
arianvanp
I like the design, and good luck with your company! I couldn't help but notice the arabic on the page, so I Was wondering if you have seen the programming language قلب already. I love how you can stretch the arabic letters to do code formatting (makes me jealous that our alphabet is so limited when it comes to caligraphy/formatting).

Seriously, arabic rocks for programming: * same reading direction as numerals (Heck, numerals ARE arabic) * code alignment by extending words (WOAH) * DUDE, IT'S ARABIC

So yes. I'm now gonna learn arabic just for programming. -hipster glasses-

قلب - http://qlblang.org/

P.S. : I couldn't help but notice that the designer of قلب pronounces قلب as alb. Whilst I'd expect it to be pronounced "qalb". Is this some dialect?

sallar
Thanks :) But we are Iranian and we speak Farsi (Persian). Farsi alphabet is similar to Arabic but they are not the same. This "Alb" thing is a interesting language though.
_tristanthomas_
Egyptian tends to pronounce ق as a silent letter. I don't know where the designer is from, but I'd guess that as the reason.
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