Bin the white space

[acompton]

son of god

Shouldn't that be spelt with a captial 'G'?

* hides in lighting-bolt shelter *

[acompton]

To God Inc.

Please rush me the following miracle:

- Parting the Red Sea
- Changing water into wine
- Feeding the 5,000
- Healing the sick
- Raising from the dead
(tick one miracle only)

PS. I am over 18.

[gabrielcrowe]

Interesting. Are you saying that there is only one god?

[acompton]

Interesting. Are you saying that there is only one god?

Well the poster, Jesus, would have difficulty in being the son of several gods.

(or maybe not)

Add Jesus to your Buddy List - LOL

[gabrielcrowe]

Well, his father may be a god, but not actually *the* god.

Jont, I forgot to thank you for the initial post. turned out to be a fabulous thread.

[gabrielcrowe]

Can anyone suggest how else I should approach this, except from the left-field? Interested to hear views, pls.

What you've done, is cater for the lower demographic of the internet. Those people cant and wont appreciate well designed sites.

I don't mean well designed, as in pretty images and such, I mean well designed, and functional, w3c compliant and easy to navigate. I dont mean 'boring sites'. There are 'fun' well designed sites out there, that are a pleasure to navigate. The sad thing is, that if you were to clean up your site, with the same prices and infrastructure, it'd not work at all. This means the visual nature of your site is a only gimmick. Sadly it works.

There are massive amounts of noobs out there, that don't know their Explorer, from their 'exploder'. To them, the visual style of your site is good enough for them. To be honest, to me, it looks a little like the design of a cluttered porn site. Chock full of terrible affiliate schemes and nasty click-through. Your demographic is noobs, plain and simple.

Your site works because it caters for the inane masses of drones out there, for a quick buck.

Well done Ling, you just set the Internet back 10 years.

[leehack]

I think it'd be better if Superman didn't make the name look like lingscars.CON

[gabrielcrowe]

...actually, if you notice, every time that the superman logo is used, without permission, they blur it out. something to do with aggressive copyright. you might want to look into that.

[party_pete]

I love it..........now where is that link to actlance

[LINGsCARS.com]

Gabrielcrowe

What you've done, is cater for the lower demographic of the internet. Those people cant and wont appreciate well designed sites.


Err, no

My customers are predominantly top earners in top 10% of society. Eg, I have head of BBC, Ambassadors, Directors of Barclays Bank, Top policemen, many other high profile customers, etc etc, as well as highly ranked Army officers, airline pilots etc

These are not "lower demographic of the internet".

What they appreciate is the unique "personal" appeal of my site, the communication, immediate response and totally secure environment (behind the scenes) I think, that is is not a standard out-of-box site with clone-like approach to how it "should be done".

I just hate "standard" ways of doing stuff. That is truly catering for lowest denominator.

Who writes those rules anyway? It is like saying to IKEA or TK Maxx, "you do it wrong, What you've done, is cater for the lower demographic of the shoppers. Those people cant and wont appreciate well designed shops." because they break from traditional shopping experience. There are many things not yet discovered and invented, but certainly using a more fluid and unique approach is appealing to a large number of people.

That's the good thing about the internet, you can do whatever you want.

[Darren B]

Gabrielcrowe

What you've done, is cater for the lower demographic of the internet. Those people cant and wont appreciate well designed sites.


Err, no

.

Err Yes

the people you quote a not the majority of the online community, i guess it depends on your interpretation of lower demographic.

I think you miss understand what Gabe was saying.

[george]

Good thread chaps, apart from the God bollox of course.


I can appreciate your work LingBloke as its good see something different for a change (in my opinion).... and, as you say... it works.

I HATE waiting for flash stuff to load, I HATE popups that I HAVE to close, and a number of other things that are so often accepted as alright on `well designed` sites. I wonder how many people close Lingy's site straight away? Compared to a site like N1kes that shows you its latest must have trainer in 3D before you can advance to other sections.

Bring back wavey flags and suchlike! The lower demographic ROCKS.

[gabrielcrowe]

My customers are predominantly top earners in top 10% of society. Eg, I have head of BBC, Ambassadors, Directors of Barclays Bank, Top policemen, many other high profile customers, etc etc, as well as highly ranked Army officers, airline pilots etc

Ling you big noob.

You ARE catering for those people that have no idea about the Internet.

No matter how you butter it up, the people that actually 'like' your mishmash of a site are fatally unaware of good design. These people are 'the lower demographic of the internet'.

Just because they are bankers, it does not make them instantly user interface specialists, layout gurus or color psychology professionals, it makes them rich. Rich doesn't make you clever, resourceful, or even useful.

We have traveling folk living in a field near where I reside, that are richer than the people you mention. They don't even know what the Internet is. Your argument is not sound at all.

Your site is popular because its got your mad face on it and its 'design' is oddball. The media attention is whats driving the site, not your 'personal anarchy' spin on things.

I'd like to think that I'm a unique butterfly too sometimes. The web is too complex to pin down to any one 'correct' concept.

[Darren B]

I can appreciate your work LingBloke

Ermmm LingBird

[acompton]

The media attention is whats driving the site

Media attention is everything. The 'War on Terror' board game has never sold so well before this Indie article (and others):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ce-889287.html