NYU's Computer Science Minor Website

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20 points·nydrewreynolds··10 comments

You can laugh all you want but: (1) This is computer science dpt, not graphic design school website, so not really a story of cobbler's children with no shoes. (2) well, yes, this design _is_ bad but you cannot imagine how many times I wished for just dark grey text on white background, simple sans font, plain HTML tags, and minimum of images supporting the content. I just want to read the damn stuff, not to marvel at all these exotic google fonts, fixed headers, oversized stock photos and cutesy icons. I find that I press Readability's "read now" bookmarklet much more than I'd wanted to.

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The Flash Player Version Detection script[0] dates this as AT LEAST 2007?!

[0] http://cs.nyu.edu/webminor/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js

CS department websites in general seem to be so, so very bad. Does anyone have an example of one that is good?

I would really like to see one too if anyone has a good example?

What's the point of this "Show HN" and what are you trying to achieve? Feedback?

Sorry about that. Removed.

I cant stand that much Comic Sans.

That's nothing compared to the brochure: http://cs.nyu.edu/webminor/WPA_App_Minor_Brochure.pdf

This site, designed to get people to create on the web, should probably look a bit more professional BUT lets keep in mind that this is an outdated site, the "Intro to Flash Programming" listed in the brochure is not a course they currently offer accourding to the most recent course list: http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2014/courses

Yes I saw the brochure haha. Yes, of course, I get it's an outdated site. I wonder why it's still up right?

I'm sure someone worked hard on that, we should all definitely make fun of them.

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