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Design RantsJune 03, 2008
Last night I launched a long-needed redesign of my business site, Bright Creative. The site had been languishing for years, but fact is, it is a business and I do keep my contract work at arm's length from what goes on over on this here site, so I decided to keep it rolling along instead of folding it all into one.
Of course then I got ambitious, so it's been in the works for months while I've tweaked. Designing for yourself is never easy, is it? I feel like I could spend the better part of a month continually tweaking and making improvements, but I finally hit the point where it was "done enough" to launch.
While this is design work I'm quite pleased with, I still see things I think could have been done better. It might be more interesting to write up my notes on those first, so I'm going to do this in two parts: first the rants below, then I'll follow up with another post on the parts I'm happy with.
- Typography
I had this grand goal of keeping all my text in HTML and avoiding image-bound text or sIFR entirely, while avoiding looking like HTML text if I could help it. I looked for effects and typefaces that might accomplish that, and landed on Microsoft's ClearType set. The headers were going to all be Candara, and the body text all Calibri, and that looked pretty nice in Photoshop.
But oh, the pain when trying to get a browser to duplicate it. Firefox OS X does not render Calibri well at all. Seriously, what is this? The kerning is all over the place, and look at that crazy overlapping of the link on the right; there's no fancy letter-spacing happening in my CSS that could explain that, it's just what 13px Calibri does in Firefox.
So I found a CSS hack that would allow me to keep the Calibri in Safari, and step down to Lucida in Firefox… except that the x-height of Lucida is quite a bit larger, so the type size contrast in the two versions was not equal. Since those without the most recent versions of Office or Windows don't have Candara/Calibri anyway, my fallbacks weren't going to work well either.
I ended up scrapping Calibri and running with Lucida for the body text. The headers are still Candara, or Georgia if it's not installed; I did save some Candara into an image for the top navigation despite it all, but the headers throughout are styled HTML text (more on that in the follow-up).
And after all this ordeal it felt like the finely-grained type control I had carefully planned got away from me; I have three different type sizes for body copy in various spots, when I only intended to have one or two at most. It's all still functional, and looks okay at a glance, but I still see areas where it should be a lot tighter.
- Readability
I put up a link on Twitter last night, and one of the most frequent pieces of feedback I've had since was that text contrast was too low, the brown-on-brown is hard to read. Yep, guilty.
Embarrassingly enough, I spent most of my design time on the portfolio and home pages, neither of which have excessive text on the brown textured background. And then when I started working on content pages like Services, I realized there was a problem.
Since then I've gone back in and smoothed out the background behind the main text area on content pages, so there's less distracting texture. It still suffers from a text contrast issue, but short of brightening up the entire background texture, that's probably as far as I'll go.
One thing further compounding the matter is the anti-aliasing method used to render the text. With sub-pixel rendering everything appeared a bit darker and thicker, and that really helped the contrast. However, the fades and animation effects I've used in parts of the site caused flickering between sub-pixel and regular anti-aliasing, a known issue where the best fix is to manually force regular non sub-pixel anti-aliasing by setting the opacity of the parent element to 0.9999. As soon as I kicked this in, the readability took a big hit.
I'm not sure if/when I'll come back to this issue; it's not something I'm totally happy with, but it's also something I may end up just having to live with. (Automated contrast checkers tell me the brightness contrast is okay, though I think you and I both know just by looking at it that it could be better.)
- Expandability
You'll notice in some parts of the site, resizing text in your browser causes it to expand gracefully, but it falls down on the home page and the portfolio pages. I always try to design for text expandability, but those two pages had to be the exception this time.
There were a few factors at play here. For one, my image sizes are already large (see below), and creating even more for expanding text areas was starting to feel a little silly. And absolute positioning on the home page in order to overlap textures seamlessly caused me to force hard pixel values for text area heights. I did think of trying an
overflow: autokludge to force a scrollbar in the portfolio, but the script for the sliding pages just doesn't allow that. Interestingly, turning off script allows
I don't really have a good fix for this one. I ran out of ideas, so no text expandability. But I feel really bad about that, so the guilt makes up for it, right? Right?
- Markup
Yeah, so, viewing source is going to get you a whole mess of extra wrapper
divs and such. I had a lot of images to layer, it had to happen. Did you know that you can nest your
divs so deep that Firebug stops working properly? I do now.
The real shame of it is how unnecessary most of them are. With multiple background images ala CSS3, I could get away with far, far fewer. But alas, I live in a world where supporting IE6 is still necessary, so I'll just keep my dreaming to myself while I propagate the useless
divs throughout my markup.
Also, you may notice a bunch of empty
<i></i>pairs here and there. These are as semantically neutral as reusable empty
divs or
spans, only with less characters. That's a trick I picked up from Eric Meyer along the way, I think in conjunction with the A List Apart redesign, though I'll be damned if I can find the post in question now.
- Images
I still have this philosophy about using the PNG format — it's great for throw-away images that I can effectively hide from IE6, but for core site UI elements, it's still GIF all the way. The alpha hacks and colour profile issues just aren't worth it. So I had to find fun and creative ways of overlapping compex faded imagery with 1-bit transparency. The amazing thing about doing it this way? IE6 testing was actually fairly painless this time around. I did not expect that.
The upshot, however, is that I've got 556k in images for the primary UI elements alone, not to mention the 6MB of project-related images. I'm not saying all that would go away with PNG transparency, but I bet I could shave off a few bytes. This is the sort of site where heavy imagery isn't a huge ordeal, but still. A half meg of images rubs over a decade of image optimization practice the wrong way.
I think that about covers the ranting. Next up: the fun scripted bits, the design notes, the copywriting, and more.
Reader Comments
Really nice redesign, really like the soft bright effects on your logo and header navigation menu.
Also a great job with the background textures, header textures and the div.wrapper borders.
I guess the well structured texts also help with readability.
Icons disposition on Services is great. And also loved the entire Portfolio section of the site.
Really nice job!
Very nice - sincerely. But of course, one niggle that has little to do with you and more to do with the nature of web design: I know that portfolio sites are never elastic, but I sure wish they were. As my eyes have gotten worse, I've been setting the minimum font size in Firefox up and up, which makes things start to run out of their frame at times. It sucks that beauty and precision are so often the enemies of flexibility.
very nice design, very nice indeed. One little bug though - the 'portfolio . services . about' menu doesn't display correctly on hover in FF3 RC1. The hover states are offset horizontally by about 20px from where they ought to be.
Love the graceful degredation too (had to remember to allow no-script for the googleapi url as well as your own domain)
I feel your pain David. I have been designing for 7 years and it seems like I go through this every time.
It always feels like quick sand because the more you start changing the more you find and the worse your markup gets. I am working on a large site right now that started off very clean, the css was thought through well on my part, the color pallet was simple and complimentary. Then I started getting feedback from upper management and as they have moved something one place then moved another, then moved back the first thing it is turning into a mess.
At the end of the day though you have done as you always do and you have created a good website.
PS - the bug with the main menu hover state is only viewable with JS disabled. Works fine with JS enabled.
@Jemaleddin - "I know that portfolio sites are never elastic, but I sure wish they were…. It sucks that beauty and precision are so often the enemies of flexibility."
No kidding. I wish we had the ability to size imagery relatively to text size, that might make more elastic precision design practical.
@Matt Wilcox - "menu doesn't display correctly on hover in FF3 RC1. The hover states are offset horizontally by about 20px from where they ought to be."
Okay, that makes two reports of this. Hmm. I'm still running 2 for now so I haven't seen it in action. Every browser I have access to treats the nav identically, so I'm left wondering what changed in 3.
@Matt Wilcox - Aha, that makes more sense, and I can replicate it. Okay, my error after all. Thanks for digging into it, should be fixed.
I'm curious which pages are so deeply nested as to break firebug. At first pass the site looks nowhere near as bad as some sites I've seen(including a drupal generated site I had the misfortune of working on that had the worst case of div-itis I've ever seen) and nowhere does firebug choke.
I spent some time wandering through the site initially enjoying the rich decoration that betrays a great love of detail and care but the lasting thought I'll have is your written content is superb. Engaging, informative, clarity. As a potential client I'd be armed with all the facts. Time well spent there I think - and a lesson learnt here.
I like the new layout much better than the last one. The shiny hover-effects are great. It's a bit dark, but I like it. Well done.
Well done! I found the structure and design of your portfolio section one of the best I have seen. The expanding images that fill the viewer work very well, as do the other details such as Events maps. You have done a very good job taking content and displaying it in a way that is unique yet usable.
My first reaction was actually, "Bright Creative? But it's not very bright…" Yet even though some of the text is difficult to read, it still gives off a professional feel. Kudos, thanks for the great examples!
I could not help but note the timeliness of your post juxtaposed with a post by one of the guys at 37Signals today. See http://tinyurl.com/6fl5ot
It's all about why they skip the photoshop step in design and highlights some of the things you ran into.
Looks incredible Dave. It has a very rich quality to it, and I love the subtle effects like the navigation hover. I sometimes use jQuery for similar things, since it only takes a couple lines and really gives projects that "wow" factor without being too gaudy.
When I do image layering my standard operating procedure is to just roll with PNG, and then I create a second set of GIF images for IE6 that I override in a conditionally commented stylesheet. I put in effort to make sure it still looks good, but I don't mind if it doesn't look identical to the original design in IE6. Carefully setting the matte color on each image is often enough to look ok, although sometimes you have to lose a bit of glow or drop shadow on some images. For me the sacrifice in pixel perfection is acceptable if it lets me avoid those crazy PNG hacks.
Superb work, a labour of love no doubt about it. As always, the content is a joy to read and almost lyrical at times. I laughed, I cried, I laughed again… Thanks Dave.
I don't know why, but Opera (9.27) isn't applying the Windows ClearType effect to the font in your page. All those pixels are scratching my eyes! It's only Opera that seems to suffer from this.
Great work, Dave!
I'm always amazed that given how 'clean/modern' a lot of your client work seems to be, that your personal work is so flourished…
Hopefully none of the above adjectives will be interpreted as being bad, as they're not meant to be in any way. I'm just commenting on what seems to me to be a pretty vast distance between the two…
IMO It's excellent design with great detail and excecution, but I have to say the text is too hard to read when it's not on a white background.
Very good redesign, I like it. I've noticed the same issue you mentioned about text contrast, but the final result is good.
The site looks great. Sure there are a couple of areas which aren't as fine-tuned as you would like in a perfect world, but it happens. A project I'm working on right now is going to be just as bad, if not worse. There's unfortunately nothing I can do about it.
And, I think the post you are talking about from Eric is either http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/08/23/markup-missive/ or http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/06/21/technorati-redesigns/.
I was directed to this blog from Andy Rutlege's site. From what I have seen briefly, I like it, there seems to be plenty of good information to explore.
To today's topic, unlike most of your commenters, I don't like your new site design. My first impression of the home page was one of twitchiness. The background texture is far to busy. You say you've already increased the text contrast? Wow.
I DO like the banner area. That rocks.
In terms of your article, I believe you've committed some sins that you wouln't allow a client to get away with. Heck, it's your own site, on your own budget and you can do what you like, but it's also very good experience to eat your own dog food.
Repeatedly tweaking a design can stuff things up, as perspective and deliberate relationships to other elements become lost and it becomes a pile of neat, but unrelated elements.
On Typography.
It's my belief that too much importance is being paid to SIFR and the circuitous approach to typography that it provides. I have no direct experience with it, but you describe the same cross-browser issues that have been torturing us all for years. It's great if your client has the budget for this indulgence, but I continue to recommend against it, and live with the limited typography available. After all, the typography is not what the site is about, it's the information.
On Priorities.
ALL of my work comes from government and medium sized business clients. I spend a LOT of time trying to get them to focus on what is important in the site. Especially the government clients.
Of course, the important element in government and business site is INFORMATION. It's the reason people come to your site. You can have a site with information but without design, but the converse does not hold; you can't have a site with a great design but no information. Given this knowledge, the design MUST complement the information and never overpower it.
It's the designer's skill to present the information in a tasteful and consumable manner. I don't particularly want site visitors to go "oooooh pretty!"; I want my site visitors to be more subdued in their reaction to the colours and themes. I want them to nod and go "uh huh", and then nod again…. and then come back another time.
This site, Mezzoblue does that really well, although I'm not so sure Bright Creative does.
the same.
Thanks for indulging my rant. I really like your site, I fully plan to include this site in my morning blog reads.
@Ian – it sounds very much to me like you're critiquing the site against a generalized set of rules, without considering context.
It's a portfolio site. The information is the design. The design is the information.
When you say my goal with Bright Creative is to have people come back time and again, that's wrong. That's not my goal at all. When you say it's not a good goal to cause visitors to say "ooh, pretty", that may be true in a general sense, but that's wrong for a portfolio site.
My goal was to go for broke on the design. If you judge against that criteria, it serves my purpose very well.
I don't think so. I was judging the site against my initial reaction. The rest is clearly just (barely) related rant.
I partially agree, in that for a portfolio site the information is in the design. Primarily, though, the information is who you are, what you do, the presentation gallery of designs for other clients and perhaps some testimonials. I doubt that people would choose your services based upon a single visit to your site.
I agree that for a design portfolio site, it is more likely they do need to say "Oooh pretty" than for other sites, although this was not my reaction to BC.
Nonetheless, your client is happy. That is worth far more than the distant ramblings of self proclaimed experts; a category in which I am not alone.
Agree with Courtney Miles about the text looking scratchy and unattractive in Opera.
Also, on the subject of GIF v PNG; wouldn't you save yourself some bytes if you saved all your GIFs as 8-bit PNGs (you can use alpha or index transparency on 8-bith PNGs) and then used a PNG compression utility like http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer afterwards? That's the process I follow and the PNGs always come out smaller in file size than their equivalent GIFs.
I really like what you have done, congratulations on putting together a really nice site. When you do the soft eye focus test the text does get a bit lost but that is really only on the homepage. Thanks for your post too, enjoyed it.
I really like what you've done with the site Dave. I love all the texture and graphics. I was especially impressed with your use of jquery in the portfolio, it really puts it over the top in my opinion. Awesome job.
Dave - your new Bright Creative site is beautiful! Amazing work!!!
Nice work with the re-design, Dave. Congratulations! I look forward to reading future posts on the site's design process. I hope you'll write about your decision behind the site's grunge style, does grunge really describe your personal style, or is it simply a nod to the popular trend?
A couple notes: I do like that you applied a lightener background behind the content, but it looks too rough being so close to the edge of the text, I think a bit of breathing room on either sides of the text would look better.
I really like how your organized your portfolio pieces, but do wish to see more of your recent works, otherwise it looks like you haven't designed any new sites in 2008 ;-)
looks great dave. i see you've made a lot of the changes you've already noted and others that your readership have mentioned.
inspirationbit brings up a good point. grunge has made a come-back. i remember when the aged/grunged/distressed look was a current trend, and it seemed to have faded a way (no pun intended). glad to see the prominent folks in the business are bringing it back. you, bryan v., as well as many others have done a good job of not just totally destroying this trend and actually making it a usable design element.
Dave, I see you used a gradient over your page titles. That is a really great way to make text "not appear like html text" which is what I recently did on a clients site.
I totally feel you on the useless wrapper divs. I just redesigned my site ( http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/ )and had to opt for a bunch of wrapper divs to accomplish the design I wanted. I'm still waiting for CSS3 support for multiple backgrounds as well.
My only complaint of the new site is it has a large footprint of 524 KB. I've been trying to determine a good way to handle dialup users on large sites. The best I could come up with is allowing them to choose a separate stylesheet without many of the images and just background colors.
A question for you as well, do you serve your xhtml site up as xml or as text?
I think the redesign is great. I find your method of enlarging portfolio images to be good and a touch different to what I'm used to (but not different in a bad way), although it seems like your enlarged image's dimensions are restricted – which could only pose an issue to you really.
On a side note, I noticed some ugly markup visible in the Rosenfeld screenshot of topics. It's located in the "News" section at the end of the only news item's copy snippet.
I still like this site's design more!
You spare no effort, and the result is really great.
Your philosophy about typography ( keeping all my text in HTML and avoiding image-bound text ) and about images is the right way for the future i think and i hope everything works in IE8.
I've followed your work for years Dave and have always liked what you produce. So I'm a bit disappointed to see you create what amounts to an inaccessible site due to a poor colour scheme.
The layout and styling is really good, the portfolio looks great, but the colour scheme on the home and about pages is awful. You clearly put a lot of thought and effort into the overall style and detailing, but this was lost on me as I switched it all off so I could read the content!
It seems you've made choices about the readability of text based on the assumption people have Cleartype or other anti-aliasing. Many people don't. I don't, and the body text looks like a very dark brown on a medium brown; it's very hard to read. (FireFox2, 1280x1024 Philips LCD, default colour settings, no anti-aliasing).
I know you've commented on the contrast issue and suggested that you won't tweak it again, but I urge you to reconsider. I really think you should brighten up the background and remove some of the distracting texturing; I think it would massively improve the readability of the site.
Once again beautiful design.
The site looks great.
one issue in ie6 the .png images show that oh so wonderful bluish greenish texture…
Very clean design. Coming out with any free Wordpress themes any time soon? I wouldn't mind using something like this, it would be a great contribution, and would blow away most of the themes out there right now.
you're RSS feed has been failing to load for me lately (maybe a week or two now)
Great design, Dave. The site degrades nicely in IE6 too! I would also like to see some new WordPress themes. =) I'm new to WordPress, but I love it so far. Keep up the good work.
I must admit, it is pretty annoying the way PCs display fonts. As i work on a Mac, all the fonts look fantastic. I haven't yet figured out how to be able to use fonts in a website. Which is on thing i need. I a lil fed up of using Arial, Trebuchet, Verdana, Georgia etc.
But then again, like you say, if you pick a nice font, will it actually look good on a PC?
When there are so many nice fonts out there, why not use them all.
Really nice redesign dave, very nice images, it's hard to use GIFs all the time i find, one day IE6 will fizzle away and we won't have to worry about it (that day can't come too soon).
you and your work has always been an influence to me so keep it up.
p.s. there's nothing like a bit of calvin & hobbes still eh ;-)
Looks amazing! Great job Dave
Dude! The text rendering looks awful here, specifically the anti-aliasing.
Firefox 3 (final), Windows XP with Cleartype turned on, on an Intel MacBook.
It's just fine in IE7.
Mail me and i'll get you a screenshot.
Fantastic work on the portfolio site Dave - is it just static HTML or have you built it on EE or WP or something? (I couldn't see any wp-content references)
FYI there are a couple of XHTML validation issues with missing closing DIVs on the Services and About pages.
Someone above mentioned the use of 8-bit PNG files. There's a great article on SitePoint that alerted me to their use and how they degrade in older browsers. As far as I know Fireworks is the only program that can export PNG8 files with more than one alpha channel (I believe you can get a Photoshop add-on to do it). I love Fireworks for designing and page layout of websites - fancy graphic work still gets done in Photoshop however. Check out the article - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/09/18/png8-the-clear-winner/
Only useful in low colour depth images however (even less colours available than a GIF due to how many are used for the alpha channels).
Great job on the new site Dave. I think that it turned out pretty well.
I would have to agree with you on the whole firefox/safari thing-every time that I get a chance to mess around with CSS and publish a site, I find that it takes me 3 times as long because I have to tweak things to work properly in the different browsers. I finally got fed up and downloaded several different browsers as portable apps on my flash drive and just tested them from there. It saved some time, but still, the tweaking can be horrendous. And don't get me started on the font thing…::grumbles::
Anyway, despite all the "fun" with tweaking, I think that it turned out great. Good job!
Great design. :)
A note on PNG colour issues: I use PNG for most of my images, both PNG-24 (if I need alpha transparency or for gradients) and PNG-8. Then some JPEGs when I need to.
I avoid colour issues altogether thanks to PNGCrush. I created a context-menu command (in Nautilus, on Linux) that enables me to PNGCrush all PNG images in a directory, or a single PNG image. It removes all gamma correction (I never use it though), and all embedded colour profiles. Works like a charm.
And I get smaller images that way, too. I work with The GIMP (great for pixel-precise cutting of design elements), which generates lightweight PNG images, but I still get a 5-20% file size reduction.
About typography on the web…
Is there a way to make sure that type on the web can be seen by every computer browser?
Do you suggest choosing alternate CSS based fonts in case the browser doesn't display the specific font?
very cool - i like the internal pages more b/c the ratio of whitespace is greater than that of the homepage.
On your portfolio page, is that Ajax used to scroll through projects? I assume thats what you use for the top right nav as well? (contact, about, portfolio)?
Very nice - Great job on the new site. Love the color scheme and layout - the whole thing renders fine here across all browsers on the mac, but I am on Safari 3 and FF 3, so no surprise there then!
PS: Did you use your own JQuery Plugin for the navigation on the portfolio pages? or was it a download? If so which one ;-)
I had that same problem with Calibri! I had to end up ditching it as well! oh the frustration! I really like the way the site looks, you did a really good job! I think you made the right decision just to go with Lucida instead of a hack anyway.
This is a very clean design. It has been a while, so I am assuming it is the same design we are talking about that is up there currently. The text could be more visible somehow, possibly with a different background but the rustic feel of the current background is pretty cool. It may be better to use a bolder text, it would show up more.
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Hi Folks,
Just got a noname 1GB SD Card, seen on lots of posts that brand is quite important for zaurus, but chanced on a cheap (£40) ebay auction. Card is used - normal usage scoring on contacts.
When I insert the card, the SD card icon does not appear
dmesg reports:
SD read CRC error : ffff : d1d7
VFS : Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
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#mkdosfs /dev/mmcda1
mkdosfs 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
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|2009-03-18, 17:16
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Not to sound biased in anyway though I speculate that the majority of those who would complain about the outcome of the story consisted mainly kids/pre-teens (aka the more immature audience) who simply like to play shipping wars and not observe the story from more adult and insightful prospective. They won't know what development means when they themselves haven't developed nor lived enough life to know what its like. I see the majority who understand and support the logic in that Ryuuji and Taiga belong to eachother derives from a more mature, life-experienced audience, for a lack of a better way to put it. Forgive my rambling, just a thought I had >_>
|2009-03-18, 17:20
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|2009-03-18, 17:22
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It's just this episode and last episode where she actually became important. It's... sudden.
The Ryuuji/Taiga thing has had a hell of a lot of setup though.
|2009-03-18, 17:26
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|2009-03-18, 17:26
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Ultimately, I liked this episode, but the developments were too many and came too fast for my liking. For about the last third of it, I was in "o_O I must not have heard that right...what!?" mode, which I don't like to be in. They did too much in this episode, that's all there is to it. I don't know how the books handled it, but...yeah.
I mean, I read some poster commenting on the maturity of their relationship and all that, and while there's some of that (and the pairing makes a lot of sense), I have a hard time digesting the fact that the story went from Taiga running away from her feelings to "This is my wife!" in 24 minutes. There has to have been some way to make this feel more natural and less insane. Yeah, they're eloping, but the whole thing, from Taiga to Minorin to Ami to Yasuko to them running away...it just went too fast for my tastes. It feels like this should have been at least two episodes, just to space it out a little.
That said, all in all, the (HUGE) pacing issues put aside, I enjoyed the episode. I'm interested in seeing how this all wraps up next week, but this episode is only getting an eight out of me.
|2009-03-18, 17:28
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I was focused on the utterly lame noises I'm reading on randomc and other forums where people are acting like they just got blindsided by everything. Seriously about half or better of the anime fans do get it (much better than the 90% humans-are-idiots rule). But you just have to stand in awe of those who basically proclaim they don't actually follow the relatively straightforward plot.
|2009-03-18, 17:33
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He's the sort of person to just accept this kind of development and go along with it.
A lot of people on RC only pay attention to the scenes with Ami in them, it seems.
|2009-03-18, 17:37
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Totally get what you're saying about "it could have been done better" -- everyone has an opinion about these sorts of things. But, from my vantage point, I'd say that even so, the writers did a fine job given the time available (maybe that last part is the operative part of the phrase). So in the end, in my ignorance, I can tentatively agree. Heck, I think many of us would agree that it would already be better if next week weren't already the end!
What annoys me is the whole culture that seems to encourage this sort of speak-before-thinking attitude, and acts like because they have an opinion about something there must absolutely be a flaw in whatever they're criticizing simply because they don't like it. That's nonsense. No blogger or forum poster is going to convince me, just by the virtue of their having an opinion, that they know more about good writing than the actual people who wrote the show. I guess it's sort of the old "everyone's a critic" bit, except that it doesn't help when those people are also both arrogant and ignorant. In general, I would love to see less outrage and more reasoned analysis, but clearly this isn't the way to feed one's ego online. People just want to be told "you're right, that was so totally stupid and wrong, and it's the show's fault for being poor!" rather than "the show may be just fine; maybe you should watch it again to pick up on all the things you missed the first time and think about it". More often than not, the problem is the latter and not the former. Anyway, pipe dreams...
|2009-03-18, 17:45
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One thing I actually was surprised by though is how strongly Minori apparently liked Ryuuji, and how she acted surprised when he decided to go with her and how hurt she acted when he said he wanted to be with Taiga. Up until this point I saw no signs that she wasn't satisfied with her decision and I thought she was fully prepared for everything it entailed.
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And unfortunately, this is internet. The place where we argue about stupid crap. Therefore, it's mandatory to have e-peens the size of Eiffel Tower, and thus, must convince others of our superior knowledge of how to write or direct a story.
Well, I agree about everything other than age part.
I hate kids. I eat babies, and use teenagers as slaves.
But don't tell anyone.
|2009-03-18, 17:47
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Oh I should explain - dependent on the individual, certainly anyone of any age can be reflective and insightful, just as you say relentlessflame. I tend to sometimes over analyze things; due to that though, from what I've picked up, the majority of shippers complaining about the series' outcome deem to be that of a younger audience given their "forum age" and what not. It's not a very plausible assumption to make I know, but judging by the context of their posts and their thoughtless declarations of which pairing should "win" simply due to their preference, its hard personally for me to not interpret it in any other way than that they come across as an immature audience.
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|2009-03-18, 18:10
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This episode is actually a perfect example. All the people who are like "this is so sudden", "it makes no sense", and "where did this come from"... this is so what being a teenager is like. Maybe it's because I'm the oldest with two younger siblings, so got to witness this same phenomenon? To Taiga and Ryuuji, this so makes sense and is all the world to them in this moment -- they're going to do this, and they're going to prove to everyone that they don't need anyone to tell them how to live their lives! They're going to be free from everything that holds them back! Because, mom, (dad,) just accept that I'm an adult already! But they're not. Obviously not. Painfully not. And this is absolutely going to dawn on them sooner or later. But for right now -- in this one single moment -- they've found each other, and that's all they need! World be damned! The fact that it makes no sense, is sudden, etc. is exactly the point because this is what it is to be a teenager. It only makes sense at the time and, in retrospect, was totally stupid. And it's only later on that you actually figure that out (and you spend the whole rest of your life "getting that" more and more).
So anyway, all that to say, I don't think you've over-analyzed at all -- I was just trying to give people the benefit of the doubt. In the end, it really is that sort of show that makes more sense upon reflection. And, in truth, maybe it does help if you have something to reflect about in your own life first.
(Speaking of which, have you noticed that forum trolling has changed over the last few years? It used to be that people would come into forums and post negative opinions only to get people riled up. Nowadays, you get the same sort of negative opinions, and the person seems to really mean it! )
|2009-03-18, 18:13
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|2009-03-18, 18:15
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But seriously, like relentlessflame and others been saying about people complaining about being blindsided because of the fast moving context, You have to remember that they have been doing that since first episode, there is alot of context(10 Volumes) they have to put into 25 episodes in less than 30 min each. Besides I think J.C. Staff did a excellent job on doing that, and I believe that this is the best series that J.C. Staff ever did.
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|2009-03-18, 18:27
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Oooh, I am looking forward to this episode. I don't have a problem with the Yasuko thing. It seems plausible to me from what we've seen so far. Like one of those bottle bottle bottle bottle EXPLODE kind of deals.
What I'm curious to see is how they work out these Ryuuji x Taiga developments. I never doubted from the start it would wind up Ryuuji x Taiga, but WOW what a long way to come in a single episode. I know it won't be 100% rational...I'm guessing that's kind of the point. Shooouuuld be interesting.
|2009-03-18, 18:27
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If you can enjoying watching Spice and Wolf, I think you should love this ones as fast-pacing version. Tatsuyuki Nagai did very good job in putting all pieces altogether in anime without trainwrecking it like other famous animes. However, his point of view in serializing this story doesn't work well with non-adult audiences.
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The new series, "Turbo: F.A.S.T." -- short for "Fast Action Stunt Team" -- is to debut in December in the United States and the 39 other countries where Netflix offers its online subscription service. The program will continue the animated exploits of the movie's snail hero, Turbo, who in the film pursues the improbable dream of competing in the Indianapolis 500.
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We welcome back our friend organization, Palm Springs Modernism Week, whose "Fall Season Kick-Off" will be a grand finale to Tour Day, occurring over the Columbus Day holiday weekend from October 11-14th. Their schedule will include architectural tours, a retro "yard sale," a swanky cocktail party, and the Modernism Week Double Decker Bus Tours. With this effort Modernism Week celebrates its partnership with Docomomo US and the upcoming launch of our newest chapter, Docomomo US/Southern California (who will host their inaugural Tour Day event this year). Tickets for "Fall Season Kick Off go on sale August 1st.
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Image (right): Photographer, Penny Pehl. The Phillips House by architect John Sanders Chase, Austin, Texas.
Returning from last year, we welcome the Historic Albany Foundation who will host a lecture by filmmakers Mary Paley and John Romeo, historical consultant, Pat Bulgaro and Albany City Historian, Tony Opalka as they discuss their in-progress documentary, "The Neighborhood That Disappeared," telling the story of the vibrant Italian neighborhood that housed courageous immigrants and the Greatest Generation. Following the lecture, conservator Bill Brandow will lead a tour around the exterior of the striking Empire State Plaza that heralds the next wave of historic preservation and architectural appreciation.
Image (left): Photographer, Albert Gnidica. Empire State Plaza designed by Wallace K. Harrison for Governor Nelson A. Rockafeller, Albany, New York.
Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 5th when all Tour Day events, including those mentioned here, will be announced on our website. Watch the Docomomo US Facebook and Twitter account for additional sneak peeks and details about activities in new partner cities within Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, and Idaho.
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The Challenge
In the late 19th century, critical scholar Julius Wellhausen claimed the Biblical chronology of the kings of Israel was a literary invention for religious purposes, which had been edited and revised several times from a variety of different sources, rather than a genuine historical record.[1]
For the next 70 years, critical scholars continued to treat the chronology as historically worthless and irreconcilable.[2]
The Facts
In 1951, Biblical scholar Edwin Thiele published 'The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings', a harmonization of the Biblical record of the kings of Israel (originally as a doctoral dissertation). By the time of the second edition (slightly revised), it was recognized that Thiele's work was a significant breakthrough in establishing the historical validity of the Biblical chronology.[3]
Though criticisms have been made of Thiele's chronology,[4] [5] [6] [7] its value and general validity have been acknowledged widely.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
It remains the typical starting point for study of the chronology of the kings of Israel and Judah[13] [14] with few modifications,[15] [16] and has been applied successfully in other fields of Ancient Near East study, such as the chronologies of Assyria and Babylon.[17]
The reliability of the chronologies in 1-2 Kings has been supported by archaeological evidence; Grabbe notes that the chronology in these books 'agrees with what can be gleaned from extra-biblical sources', and that 'even if we had no external sources we could have reasonable confidence in the biblical sequence'.[18]
[1] 'That a process of alteration and improvement of the chronology was busily carried on in later times, we see from the added synchronisms of the kings of Israel and Judah,', Wellhausen, 'Prolegomena to the History of Israel', p. 278 (1885).
[2] 'Driver remarked that, "the length of the reigns of the various kings is not the same according to the traditional and the synchronistic figures. Since, however, it is clear on various grounds that these synchronisms are not original, any attempt to base a chronological scheme on them may be disregarded." Kittel stated his view that, "Wellhausen has shown, by convincing reasons, that the synchronisms within the Book of Kings cannot possibly rest on ancient tradition, but are on the contrary simply the products of artificial reckoning. . . The Israelitish numbers and the parallel numbers referring to Judah do not agree at the points at which we are able to compare them." Robinson also was impressed by Wellhausen's evaluation: "Wellhausen is surely right in believing that the synchronisms in Kings are worthless, being merely a late compilation from the actual figures given." * R. H. Pfeiffer's opinion was that, "The chronology based on the synchronisms is of course less reliable than the one based on the regnal periods, since the synchronisms were figured from the regnal periods. Neither chronology is wholly accurate . . . In spite of these discrepancies, inaccuracies, and errors, the chronology of Kings is not fantastic." 5 J. F. McCurdy expressed himself to the effect that, "Many of the numbers given, especially the synchronisms, are erroneous, as is proved by the fact that no attempt to harmonize the two series has been successful . . . Startling inconsistencies are also found where the several synchronisms for the same king are worked out." K. Marti gave his observation: "The synchronistic notes betray their character as 'subjective additions of the Epitomator.' It is clear, to begin with, that this noting of synchronisms was not in actual use during the existence of the two kingdoms. . . Almost along the whole line, the discrepancy between synchronisms and years of reign is incurable." C. H. Gordon observed: "The numerical errors in the Books of Kings have defied every attempt to ungarble them. Those errors are largely the creation of the editors who set out to write a synchronistic history of Judah and Israel, using as sources two sets of unrelated court chronicles. Combining two elaborate sets of figures was not an easy task. But even with due regard for the difficulties involved, the editors did not execute the synchronisms skillfully."', Thiele, 'Synchronisms of the Hebrew Kings – A Re-evaluation: I', Andrews University Seminary Studies, pp. 14-125 (1), 1963.
[3] 'A marked advance in biblical scholarship was made in the publication of The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, U. of Chicago Press, 1951, by Dr. E. R. Thiele. In his revised edition in 1965 (Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.), Dr. Thiele asserts the soundness of his basic thesis and conclusions as confirmed by scholars since his first edition.', editorial, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (9.1.60), 1966.
[4] 'Thiele's view contains positive elements, but it also poses numerous difficulties. He incorrectly understood the annals of Tiglath-pileser III, and his determination that Menahem died in 742 contradicts the testimonies of the contemporaneous Assyrian inscriptions.10 In his desire to resolve the discrepancies between the data in the Book of Kings, Thiele was forced to make improbable suppositions. He assumed that the system of counting the years of reign changed every few generations, or even after a few decades. This is improbable, and cannot be proved. Similarly, he presumes that the Northern and Southern Kingdoms numbered their years both by the local count and by that practiced by the other kingdom, also for short periods, while this practice ceased in other periods. Thiele even went so far as to assume that while this practice had fallen into disuse, there were scribes who continued to calculate the years in accordance with it. There is no basis for Thiele's statement that his conjectures are correct because he succeeded in reconciling most of the data in the Book of Kings, since his assumptions regarding Biblical chronological principles are derived from the chronological data themselves, whose reliability is unclear.', Galil, 'The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah', p. 4 (1996).
[5] 'but his harmonizing approach has not gone unchallenged, especially because of the many shifts in the basis of reckoning dates that it requires (e.g., Jepsen 1968: 34–35)—shifts which were unlikely in actual practice. The numerous extrabiblical synchronisms he invokes do not always reflect the latest refinements in Assyriological research (cf. E.2.f below). In many cases, he posits an undocumented event in order to save a biblical datum (e.g., the circumstances surrounding the appointment of Jeroboam II as coregent; Thiele 1983: 109)', Cogan, 'Chronology (Hebrew Bible)', in Freedman, (ed.), 'The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary', volume 1, p. 1006 (1996)', Freedman, DN (1996).
[6] 'Despite that fact of scholarly dedication, neither Thiele's carefully argued University of Chicago dissertation, nor anyone else's, has achieved as yet universal acceptance.', Kaiser, 'A History of Israel: From the bronze age through the Jewish Wars', p. 293 (1998).
[7] 'Not all scholars are convinced by this solution, and commentators on the prophetic books often accept that dates can only be approximate.', McConville, 'Exploring the Old Testament, Volume 4: The Prophets', p. viii (2002).
[8] 'The chronology most widely accepted today is one based on the meticulous study by Thiele. Wiseman, '1 and 2 Kings', Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, p. 27 (1993).
[9] 'Increasingly his chronological scheme has come to dominate the majority of scholarly works and it is unlikely that his system can ever be overthrown without altering some well-established dates in Near Eastern history, for Thiele's chronology is now inextricably locked into the chronology of the Near East.', McFall, 'A Translation Guide to the Chronological Data in Kings and Chronicles', Bibliotheca Sacra (148.589.42-43), 1996.
[10] 'Thiele's system of chronology has been well received over the past 40 years and is now accepted as the basis for Israel's chronology in a growing number of standard scholarly works.', ibid., p. 42; see for example: Mitchell, 'Israel and Judah until the Revolt of Jehu (931-841 B.C.)', Cambridge Ancient History, volume 3, part 1, p. 445 (1982); Finegan, 'Handbook of Biblical Chronology', p. 249 (rev. ed.1998); Hess, 'Chronology (Old Testament)', in Porter (ed.), 'Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation', p. 55 (2007).
[11] 'Thiele's chronology is fast becoming the consensus view among Old Testament scholars, if it has not already reached that point.', McFall, 'The Chronology of Saul and David', Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (53.101.215), 2010.
[12] 'Thiele's chronology (which differs from that of the present paper in only a few places) won the respect of historians because its dates agree with the following dates in Assyrian and Babylonian history: the Battle of Qarqar in 853 bc; the tribute of Jehu to Shalmaneser III in 841 bc; the capture of Samaria by Shalmaneser V in 723 bc; the invasion of Sennacherib in 701 bc; the Battle of Carchemish in 605 bc; and the first capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 bc.', Young, 'Tables of Reign Lengths From the Hebrew Court Recorders', Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (48.2.232), 2005.
[13] 'Thiele's work has become a cornerstone of much recent chronological discussion (cf. De Vries IDB 1: 580–99; IDBSup: 161–66);', Cogan, 'Chronology (Hebrew Bible)', in Freedman, (ed.), 'The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary', volume 1, p. 1006 (1996)', Freedman, DN (1996).
[14] 'Although some would prefer to see transmission errors where Thiele invokes the above principles, his chronology remains the starting point for all discussions of the debate.', Hess, 'Chronology (Old Testament)', in Porter (ed.), 'Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation', p. 55 (2007).
[15] 'After 40 years Thiele's chronology has not been significantly altered or proved to be false in any major area except in the matter of Hezekiah's coregency.', McFall, 'A Translation Guide to the Chronological Data in Kings and Chronicles', Bibliotheca Sacra (148.589.42), 1996.
[16] 'It remained then for others to complete the application of principles that Thiele used elsewhere, thereby providing a chronology for the eighth-century kings of Judah that is in complete harmony with the reign lengths and synchronisms given in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. The most thorough work in this regard was Leslie McFall's 1991 article in Bibliotheca Sacra.22 McFall made his way through the reign lengths and synchronisms of Kings and Chronicles, and using an exact notation that indicated whether the years were being measured according to Judah's Tishri years or Israel's Nisan years, he was able to produce a chronology for the divided monarchies that was consistent with all the scriptural texts chosen.', ibid., pp. 105-106.
[17] 'In a 1996 article, Kenneth Strand wrote, "What has generally not been given due notice is the effect that Thiele's clarification of the Hebrew chronology of this period of history has had in furnishing a corrective for various dates in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian history."28 The purpose of Strand's article was to show that Thiele's methodology accomplished more than just producing a coherent chronology from scriptural data. His chronology, once produced, proved useful in settling some troublesome problems in Assyrian and Babylonian history.', Young, 'Inductive And Deductive Methods As Applied To OT Chronology', Master's Seminary Journal (18.1.112-113), 2007.
[18] 'Grabbe suggests that the names and sequence of kings in Israel and Judah, and their approximate chronological placement, agrees with what can be gleaned from extra-biblical sources. To this extent the biblical framework (meaning primarily 1 and 2 Kings) is reliable: even if we had no external sources we could have reasonable confidence in the biblical sequence of Jeroboam I, Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Omri, Ahab, Jehu, etc. in Samaria, and David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijam, Asa, Jehoshaphat, etc. in Jerusalem, along with their interrelationships. Beyond that it starts to get more and more tricky, with decreasing reliability in the biblical narrative as the detail increases (this is a general statement, and there are sometimes exceptions in specific instances).', Grabbe, 'Reflections on the Discussion', Grabbe (ed.), 'Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty', p. 337 (2007).


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