Sites about web-sites ?

Jasbird wrote:

Hello,

I'm not looking for sites about "web design". I'm looking for sites
which discuss web-sites. In other words - rather than discussing the
nitty gritty of code, html, css, javascript, etc., I'm looking for a
web-site where people discuss things like
- does the site achieve its "purpose".
- how could that web-site be improved.

For instance, I just registered with www.digg.com and right away I
though of about 15 things I'd do to improve the site, such as:
- a better more specific list of topic categories
- allowing either html or bb code in comment responses,
- etc.

I fact I was so disappointed with digg that I thought I should
immediately write a better version of it myself!

So where do people discuss web-site functionality rather than "design" ?

For instance I discovered:
news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design, but no one seems to be
discussing site-design there. It just seems to be full of spam.

found this link awhile ago
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
it describes common problems with websites... mostly useability stuff.
it's an interesting read.. i wouldn't take *everything* it says into
consideration though, because..well..if you want a real easy to use
site, you might have to make a few graphical sacrifices..whereas i'm
more into the artsy goodness..geared towards younger generations
anyways.

Jasbird wrote:

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:58:37 +0100, Krustov <me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote:

uk.net.web.authoring
Jasbird
Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:42:35 GMT
k31hg21jm8ki9772to7mlrg8iqa2lteb1d (AT) 4ax (DOT) com

It's not so much that I wanted to discuss something specific right now -
although I was thinking about making a dig or two over digg - I just
don't think that a Usenet group is particularly useful - probably
because a discussion would get lost in the general traffic - which tends
to be over quite specific limited topics such as the perils of css with
browser X, and such (rather than over more general functional
site-design topics).

To be honest:
a) I was just looking to join a good web-forum where those things
(site-design) were discussed.
b) I'm thinking a putting up a new political discussion forum using
dotnetnuke and I wanted to float some ideas I had - I guess it's
probably best to do what I think would work and go with it - if it
bombs, it bombs - if it works: great.


I recently suggested on a tv newsgroup that a tv show on web design and
tv show on php scripting would be a good idea - but everybody hates
krusty because i'm a trolling bastard and all the regular users did was
slag the idea instead of supporting it .

I don't think there would be enough of an audience for a terrestial TV.
But web-radio or web-TV could work ... or a pod-casts.

While theres never been any proof that the tv networks do monitor the tv
newsgroup in question - i made the effort and trolled the idea for a
week on the longshot it would plant the seed of possibility in somebodys
head .

One good point the slaggers did make was that a tv show on web design
most probably mostly focus on shite like flash because it does visual
whizzo stuff all over the browser screen - and personally i'm in the
same opinion as them as unless the web design tv show did take the
stance of totally ignoring shite like flash and javascript a web design
tv show would be utter shite .

he's doing it again guys. he's changed the topic to his crazy tv show
idea.
i know i wouldn't watch it..but that's because i dont watch tv, and i
certaintly wouldn't watch a tv show where i have to sit through
commercials and crap i already know, when i can find the same
information on the internet and skip over the useless stuff.