Nov 27 2008

Web Design

http://cogdogblog.com/3085

Functional Simple Web Design
Functional Simple Web Design by cogdogblog
posted 27 Nov ‘08, 11.00pm MST PST on flickr

No frills, but in zero clicks, goingtorain.com/ gives you your local weather forecast (detects location via IP address).

Maybe it is the start of some new minimalistic zen of web design…

Linktribution to Mashable.com

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5 Responses to “Web Design”

  1. Gareth says:
    November 28, 2008 at 10:30 am

    Interesting idea, needs a little tuning as it reading my ISP’s location i.e. London when I live in Wales.
    However I would be concerned if someone could tell where i’m from just from visiting a website mind, those other than ISP’s and legal bodies.

  2. Alan Levine aka CogDog says:
    November 28, 2008 at 11:48 am

    @Gareth: It’s been true for I think as long as the web has been around, that every request you make to a web server to get content, tells that server in HTTP header (the package of information sent to the web server) what your IP address is- which is not your address really, but where your IP is generated by your web host.

    10 years ago when I started looking at this information on my web server, I was stumped why so many of my visitors were from Virginia– til I realized that was the home of AOL.

    The number of these users has plummeted ;-)

  3. Jeremy says:
    December 3, 2008 at 2:19 am

    Here’s another good example of a minimalist zen design applied to search:

    http://keyboardr.com/

  4. inchoate » context is everything says:
    December 8, 2008 at 9:45 pm

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