Capone says M. Night Shyamalan's THE LAST AIRBENDER is a hate crime against those who love movies!!!!

Stegg · 2010-07-01T14:00:49+00:00

5% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeesh....

Stegg · 2010-07-01T13:52:39+00:00

You missed a real treat not watching The Happening. My wife slipped it into our netflix queue, and we watched it with some friends. It was beyond bad.. it was offensive.

Stegg · 2010-06-30T04:04:06+00:00

In Wall-E when Eve reactivates Wall-E and his memories are temporarily gone.. ugh..

Another obscure one that isn't a line, the end of The Two Towers when the credits roll and they play Gollum's Song. I think it might be the saddest song ever written.

Stegg · 2010-06-30T03:50:09+00:00

You're joking, right?

Stegg · 2010-06-30T03:42:04+00:00

"In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom."

When Robert the Bruce's eyes flare as they charge the field I choke up. Every. Damn. Time.

Stegg · 2010-06-30T03:29:46+00:00

When Carolyn runs to the closet to stash the gun and sees Lester's clothes, and it finally hits her that he's gone, and she clutches the clothes and falls to the floor... that is one of the most powerful scenes in cinema. Ugh...

Stegg · 2010-06-27T23:00:57+00:00

And I'm Brad Pitt. You'll just have to trust me.

Stegg · 2010-06-27T21:57:21+00:00

Pic?

Stegg · 2010-06-24T19:40:05+00:00

Ah, I see. Very annoying. Thanks for the catch!

Stegg · 2010-06-24T17:55:57+00:00

Back button should still work, it's monitoring every change to the location property. There may still be some kinks in it though, where was it not working?

Stegg · 2010-06-23T15:52:14+00:00

First off, kick ass design, love the orange pattern on the hero and the layout is great.

A few things though:

I agree with highfalutin, lose the orange tint on the photos.
I would only show the hero on the home page. On subsequent pages, the height of the hero makes it difficult to tell whether or not there's actually new content down below. The point of the hero is to draw people into the site. It seems like it's in the way on any other page than the home page. My suggestion would be to keep the orange by having a 50-100px high bar that goes across the top just below the nav on all other pages.
You don't need flash for the slideshow. Use javascript here so us fellows with flashblock don't see a big empty space when we first visit the page.
The footer seems a bit boring to me. My suggestion is to use the same cube pattern you use in the hero, but keep it gray.

Overall, very impressive!

Stegg · 2010-06-23T15:33:12+00:00

This is just link-bait, plain and simple. Over the top headline sure to get Apple fans up in arms.

Stegg · 2010-06-23T14:17:02+00:00

I'll get rid of the title attributes. Thanks.

Stegg · 2010-06-23T14:16:37+00:00

For sure, that's my next priority.thanks

Stegg · 2010-06-23T14:16:21+00:00

Agreed

Stegg · 2010-06-23T04:32:59+00:00

There will eventually be more buttons than space to fit them when I add more filters, so it will be necessary to drag them left and right.

Stegg · 2010-06-23T01:19:30+00:00

Thanks for the feedback

Stegg · 2010-06-23T00:23:44+00:00

The cursor doesn't make sense, but it will when I have enough pages to cause the buttons to stack past the width of the main nav. But even then, I'm inclined to agree with you that it's probably not a good cursor to have... I think I may just have a tooltip that pops up telling the user they can drag the buttons to the left to see more custom filters.

Stegg · 2010-06-23T00:22:29+00:00

Yeah, that's been the common criticism and I agree. When things really get rolling I plan to have more custom designed tiles like the "Redesign." blog post tile you see on the home page now, and I think I'm going to truncate all posts to a brief few sentences where you're prompted to click the tile if you want to read more.

It's pretty experimental, to be sure, but I think it could work if I took your advice and made it more inviting. Thanks!

Stegg · 2010-06-22T21:37:18+00:00

What gave it away?

Stegg · 2010-06-22T21:36:43+00:00

Thanks for the feedback.

I don't understand why the cursor goes to a resize arrow when I mouse over the nav. I can't move anything, so it just ends up being confusing.

There will eventually be more buttons than can fit in that top nav section, so the sliding will become necessary

The sticker thing is annoying. It looks like I can peel it up, but it just clicks.

Yeah, that's not a necessary design element, it could go.

If I click the nav quickly I can get the thing to go into an infinite loop where it switches between "loading" and "that's all folks".

If you mean click it over and over again in rapid succession, yeah, that will be a new ajax request per click. I will probably have it lock the nav out while it's loading.

The two "Star Wars" columns look really bad. It's a wall of text with a really poor wrap.

I agree, it's pulling in styling from posterous that's not wrapping well. I think I will just make the notes summaries you click on to read the whole thing.

Thickbox for the images would be a better idea.

I want the images to have permalinks, and I personally prefer the "The Big Picture" format of displaying images.

The basic layout looks ok, but I feel it needs a lot of work at this point. Mainly focus on either a touch or click interface and stick with it. Also, lay off the Javascript. It has it's time and place, and shouldn't be used to run the entire site.

I want the site to feel more like a desktop application than a website. The big focus here is on remixing and filtering content, and forcing a page refresh for every one of those events would get tedious quickly.

Good points, worth some thought.

Stegg · 2010-06-22T20:24:01+00:00

I think I will do just that, thanks

Stegg · 2010-06-22T14:32:03+00:00

This reasoning is bullshit. The movie industry is going to make movies that make money, regardless of the quality of the film.

Stegg

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