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rayrag commented on Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS webase.com/... · Posted by u/harrisreynolds
Your landing page is ugly to be honest, half of links in the footer goes nowhere - this is unprofessional and lazy. There's no clickable demo, not even overview of components. Why do you lauch your product at current state? Why submit it to HN?
There are plenty of other web builders based on Tailwind or Bootstrap, often they have free tiers, and you're charging 249$, for what? For 300$ you can get Tailwindui* from creators of Tailwindcss or something like Shuffle.dev that has components for Tailwind/Bootstrap/Bulma.
rayrag commented on Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered [video] youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLu... · Posted by u/KolmogorovComp
This reminded me of another classic - saving a cat in russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Nr31Lv6H8
rayrag commented on Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend? · Posted by u/ekpyrotic
https://twit.tv/shows?shows_active=1 - more than dozen podcasts: tech news, apple, windows, google android and more.
https://latenightlinux.com/about/ - linux
https://changelog.com/podcasts - few podcasts about various tech subjects: tech/js/ai
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/ - linux, self-hosting
https://www.latent.space/podcast - new podcast about ai
https://syntax.fm/ - mostly frontend webdev
https://shoptalkshow.com/ - mostly frontend webdev
rayrag commented on Visual design rules you can safely follow anthonyhobday.com/sidepro... · Posted by u/tontonius
It’s worse than that. I liked this article, but it was anonymous and undated. I looked around the site to find out who this was. Despite the author wanting you to know about him, what other people think about his skills, etc., he seems not to want you to know what his name is. I find this kind of thing bizarre. Does he want you to guess it from the URL? I finally saw his name in his page about “books I wrote”.
I think his design ideas are sound. But visual design without any notion of information design is like having a beautiful car with no wheels. Or something.
> It’s worse than that. I liked this article, but it was anonymous and undated. I looked around the site to find out who this was. Despite the author seemingly wanting you to know about him, what other people think about his skills, etc., he seems not to want you to know what his name is. I find this kind of thing bizarre. Does he want you to guess it from the URL? I finally saw his name in his page about “books I wrote”.
I'm guessing that his website is work in progress or/and he's learning cms he's using.
>I think his design ideas are sound. But visual design without any notion of information design is like having a beautiful car with no wheels. Or something.
Sure, but you should learn from multiple sources as not everyone should teach about everything. It's up to you to connect that knowledge.
rayrag commented on Visual design rules you can safely follow anthonyhobday.com/sidepro... · Posted by u/tontonius
> Use near-black and near-white instead of pure black and white
Please don't. Reducing contrast of text makes it harder to read. Even if you do it just a little bit, it still makes it a little bit harder to read. Worse, a lot of designers seem to get carried away with this and end up with gray-on-gray text that's impossible to read for anyone over the age of 30.
Plus it doesn't even look better. I guess this is subjective but I frequently open the devtools inspector to edit people's CSS to turn their near-black into black and their near-white into white, and every time I'm like "Wow, that looks so much better!"
Maybe I'm just a systems engineer with no sense of taste but I absolutely don't understand why anyone wants this.
For me pure black text on pure white background looks good, but pure white text on pure black background it doesn't look good, my eyes are getting tired faster but that also depends on what font family/weight/size is used. For thin font weights (100-300) maximum contrast increases readablity, for regular/bold weights it's not neccessary to be pure white on pure black.
But you're right that they built a pretty ugly landing page. Especially the color palette and fonts selection. I don' think this should detract from the service offered, so I hope they fix this quick.
I think it's UI builder that has predefined set of components that user can customise - globally (by customising 'theme' - font family, primary colors etc) or per component (padding, margins, overwriting theme settings). From these components user creates pages/templates. User can create there own components if they want so that's good.
Bu OP doesn't show those predefined components even as images, ever more there's no information how many components there are. And predefined components are important feature of most web builders as they can save a lot of time. Also well designed components (good color scheme, typography, spacing) helps develovers without design skills.