Yes, I agree infinite scrolling is kind of inconvenient, but what do you guys think of one-page-websites in general? For example, a lot of company landing pages do this nowadays, and it looks something like this:
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some background pic
some call to action
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about section
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product section
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other people are saying section
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example usage section
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api docs section
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some social section
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footer
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And as you scroll down the page, various transitions and animations (powered by jquery) popped out telling you more about the product / asking you to make an account.
I personally have made a good handful of websites like this, but I never really enjoyed the scrolling down craze because I use Emberjs and dumping everything into one application.hbs really isn't what Ember is about. But what's the consensus out there? Do people enjoy layouts like this?
I think your amusement park analogy is spot on. It's really annoying to sit there and watch a bunch of bullets and text whiz by when I just want to read what the product does.
Loathe it. It's a gimmick. First one I saw was 'cool'. Useless, but fun to see.
Now I battle it. Are you scrolled halfway between this animation and that one? Good luck, things are halfway animated, or block things, and my attention is drawn from the information to this stupid moving thing.
It is somewhat more reasonable with a touch screen; either my laptop or phone, but I don't tend to do serious browsing on my phone anyway (I ain't a young'un, and my eyesight doesn't reward such activities).
At least it is better than the text on top of an image thing that used to be the rage (thanks Wired!) which made the page impossible to read.
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some background pic
some call to action
---------
about section
----------
product section
----------
other people are saying section
---------
example usage section
---------
api docs section
---------
some social section
----------
footer
-----------
And as you scroll down the page, various transitions and animations (powered by jquery) popped out telling you more about the product / asking you to make an account.
I personally have made a good handful of websites like this, but I never really enjoyed the scrolling down craze because I use Emberjs and dumping everything into one application.hbs really isn't what Ember is about. But what's the consensus out there? Do people enjoy layouts like this?
edit: formatting