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Posted on 14/04/06 09:40:19 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Contest 92: This way in
Came across the website Millionaires24 this week - a bunch of guys who have figured out that if you're going to fleece people, choose people with loads of money. This is an 'exclusive' email hosting service, open to only the world's richest people. These lucky folk get a standard 512 Mb web space, and address book, email forwarding - all the usual stuff, in fact, except it costs them $399 a month. Obviously, none of those millionaires got where they are today by recognising a crap deal when they see it. The front page on this website is rather lacklustre, though. They've tried for a kind of Audi burnished chrome look, and failed miserably. We haven't really looked at interface design before, but this one seems too good a chance to pass up. How would you entice millionaires into this site? There must be a better way than this! 
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Posted on 14/04/06 10:48:07 AM |
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maiden
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
Crikey, I'm no webdesign genius but that's as poor as it comes even when you login using the default setting the main site is less than exceptional. white background and a very *naff chrome nav-bar. *naff - Contemporary English colloquialism/slang for something very poor, underwhelming, un-inspiring, poorly crafted. Although it originally derived from the 1970s British comedy 'Porridge' starring Ronnie Barker as a subsitute for the 'F' word. |
Posted on 14/04/06 11:08:15 AM |
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BobbyJo
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
Yuk! It's gruesome 
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Posted on 14/04/06 11:59:41 AM |
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trinityofone
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I wonder if it was set up by an oppressed African prince? _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
Posted on 14/04/06 12:49:32 PM |
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maiden
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
Why are you thinking of loaning him some money so that he can release the millions of dollars held in trust - I know I am 
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Posted on 14/04/06 1:26:34 PM |
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Dek_101
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Contest 92: This way in
I am curious to know what drew Steve to this millionaire site in the first place? .... Sales of 'Dad Stuff' must be going better than he's letting on? He He |
Posted on 14/04/06 2:36:17 PM |
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mr.pbody
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
thank you for supplying the breakdown of the word "naff"...i wasn't sure if i should thank you, get mad, or hike my pants up. lol! |
Posted on 14/04/06 4:16:04 PM |
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Pierre
Constructional Confabulator Posts: 637 Reply  |
Re: Contest 92: This way in
I missed last week's challenge by a hair, being in a business trip for the last 5 days. I really enjoyed the entries and wished I had time to complete mine. In fact, I'm jealous... This week's is also quite challenging. The quality (or lack of) the front page makes someone ask himself:"Do I start from this or do I start from scratch?" This challenge makes me think of the animated GIF one of 2 weeks ago... User interface learning curve! _________________ |
Posted on 14/04/06 8:15:32 PM |
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WilliamGallagher
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
Please forgive me if I'm taking this off-topic for a second, but I've said that same thing about Porridge and just recently learnt that the word predates the show by years. The BBC/OED show 'Balderdash & Piffle' dated it to 1966 but suspects it's much older and there was some show - might have been the same series - which showed how the word was used in the gay slang language Polari to mean, um, well, nothing very terrible but perhaps not something I should say when I'm already straining the moderator's patience. But have a look at the OED: http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt/naff.html It's not clear whether the term really came from Polari or that the slang picked it up and I think it is clear that Porridge made it famous. As I say, this has nothing to do with Photoshop and as I should've said, I don't mean to sound as if I'm criticising. Just thought you might be as interested in this etymology as I am. William |
Posted on 15/04/06 10:21:36 AM |
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maiden
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
I take your point, but as this site is getting more and more International I thought an explanation was in order - so sorry if it seemed as little patronising it wasn't my intent.
I don't take it as a criticism actually it was quite informative and I am quite interested in the etymology of words. |
Posted on 15/04/06 1:21:46 PM |
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Pete
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
I thought maybe someone was jealous of all these millionaires and had a go at getting past security.  |
Posted on 15/04/06 7:16:51 PM |
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vibeke
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
This took a while, and then I had to sacrifice colour and size to get the size down. original looked much better.  |
Posted on 16/04/06 00:25:38 AM |
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Pierre
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
Wow Vibeke! This is cool! Now that I have expereince in animated GIF (HA!) I know the work that went into that. Really good job! _________________ |
Posted on 16/04/06 03:30:54 AM |
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raffy
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Beautiful,Vibeke!Great idea! _________________ Dogs have masters;Cats have staff. |
Posted on 16/04/06 04:27:21 AM |
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vibeke
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
It was a lot of fun, especially now that I have kind of figured out how to make things move. Friday challange 2 weeks ago was my first attempt. |
Posted on 16/04/06 8:03:46 PM |
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mr.pbody
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Posted on 17/04/06 02:23:52 AM |
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Pierre
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PS: The site that Steve is talking about has just started this Tuesday and is the subject of a small article on the site I use as a Home (branchez-vous.com)... _________________ |
Posted on 17/04/06 5:22:52 PM |
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tank172
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
Re: Contest 92: This way in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS: The site that Steve is talking about has just started this Tuesday and is the subject of a small article on the site I use as a Home (branchez-vous.com)... It's a shame I don't know French!    |
Posted on 17/04/06 9:15:40 PM |
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raffy
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Raffy decided to lend a paw to revamping the website: 
(Raffy in the Sky with Diamonds) _________________ Dogs have masters;Cats have staff. |
Posted on 17/04/06 10:54:48 PM |
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Pierre
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Re: Contest 92: This way in
Don't worry about it, it does not have a very high evaluation of it either...  _________________ |
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