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Not the best ad for a new framework when the web site looks like this

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I like the idea, but the screenshots (which were, perhaps by design, hidden behind a link) aren’t exactly compelling. It has that mid-2010s open source minimum-viable-website look

This page does not inspire confidence in the framework.

I don't need a non-ui piece of software to have the slickest site... but no lorem ipsum please.


I wish them success ... but with a website that looks like this I doubt their engineering efforts. https://mobifree.org (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TITC9bN )

I personally don't like this. 1) I don't like this style even when web startups do it... too much vertical scrolling, empty space, giant images, and icons; and 2) it just looks weird for a serious site to look like a web startup.

This is a modern government website design I like better: http://www.kk.dk


I'm sure the site contains a lot of useful data but the presentation is so ugly that it's hard to get motivated to dig in deeper.

Compare it to this, for example:

https://sourcemaking.com/refactoring/smells


Forgive me for criticising, but I'm not all that enamoured with the design. I find it too chunky, too slow, and somewhat adolescent.

I appreciate that the designer has put a huge amount of effort into the template, and has populated it with some excellent demo data, but I would never use this theme in a business application.

I prefer a cleaner, more subtle design (some might say a tad boring?). Here is an example of what I mean: http://envato.stammtec.de/themeforest/peach/login.html


I mean: It looks like there’s no product behind that, all blog posts are just about laying out a vision with stock photos, and illustrations that have zero meaning. This + design of the website looks unprofessional and I’m not convinced to enter my email address to see what could happen in the future.

If you choose this approach at least try showing actual footage of it like you’re showing on your Twitter account. I know they are static designs so at least change example.com to something that looks like a live one used by others.

It doesn’t have to be perfect yet by being authentic you’ll have way more success. :)


I like the idea, and executing and launching is always good, but the example website (https://luxury-villa.incostadelsol.com/) looks pretty bad as a tool to sell a €1,499,000 home. The images desperately need some attention as they're blurry on high resolution screens, the design doesn't exactly say "luxury" or "high quality home", and there's way too much animation going on.

Yeah it looks like a scam website. No offense but there’s like a billion landing page templates out there these days that look slick and are easy to implement. This is pretty lazy.

It looks like an HTML ad creator, not a "website designer".

The new site is also one of those sites you see and immediately close them because they look like all that SEO autogenerated garbage with zero content the web is flooded today. That might not be true for this site, but it looks like it. The whitespace, the generic cliparts, the stylized colors. Everything screams "form over function"

It's a reasonably sleek Wordpress theme [1], but pretty far off from Material Design proper [2].

The animation while clicking links/buttons typically gives away if something was designed to implement Material Design or not.

https://extendthemes.com/mesmerize/

https://material.io/design/introduction/


They need to hire a professional web designer. The web page looks like something that was resurrected from geocities.

It seems like it is geared towards building Ads instead of a generic design tool.

Oh, what's wrong with it? It looked nice and was considering using it for a marketing site.

I think people want it to look fancy, rather than just plain: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Most people don't benefit very much from having prettily-designed websites.


I feel the same way. It reminds me a lot of https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ where they pretty much say that they are server guys and suck at design. I respect that.

And the redesign in the article looks like someone grabbed a free theme and swopped some text and a image.


Disagree too. Perfectly clean and structured.

There are quite a large professional enterprises, where this tool is still in use: http://www.lancos.com/prog.html

It was an awesome tool, used it ages ago myself. And no, that isn't what the usual website looked 10 years ago.

On the other hand: No ads, no trackers, no popups. Probably better than 95% of websites today.


As honest as the text appears, I usually associate websites which look similar to this as outdated and untrustworthy. It's the type of website you often see for old freeware, which is why it doesn't seem so great to a potential user as they'll assume the website style may reflect on the service they're about to receive.

I would take a bootstrap style over this. Maybe that's just me.

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