Resoundingly, the first. The second one is full of huge tiles that take up so much screen real estate, it's hard for me to scan over what is available. Crammed at the bottom are a ton of links, in no particular organization that was immediately apparent. The entire site is plastered with huge images everywhere, that don't really add to the content and just distract from whatever it was I was theoretically there for, and really don't help me understand the site at all. Also, the zoom effect on tiles keeps grabbing my attention when I was really just trying to move my mouse across them to get to something else that I'm now distracted from.
> * Nicer to to look at?
Depends on what you mean I guess; if you came to soak up pictures of smiling faces, I guess the second. But personally, I don't dislike the first.
> We don't live in a HTML only world because no one wants to live in a HTML only world. Some techies might but 99% of ordinary people do not.
I'm afraid this is a really awkward statement. There's no way to argue against it or really say anything to the contrary. You've framed it such that anyone who disagrees with you is "a techie" who in your definition does not represent any norm.
Resoundingly, the first. The second one is full of huge tiles that take up so much screen real estate, it's hard for me to scan over what is available. Crammed at the bottom are a ton of links, in no particular organization that was immediately apparent. The entire site is plastered with huge images everywhere, that don't really add to the content and just distract from whatever it was I was theoretically there for, and really don't help me understand the site at all. Also, the zoom effect on tiles keeps grabbing my attention when I was really just trying to move my mouse across them to get to something else that I'm now distracted from.
> * Nicer to to look at?
Depends on what you mean I guess; if you came to soak up pictures of smiling faces, I guess the second. But personally, I don't dislike the first.
> We don't live in a HTML only world because no one wants to live in a HTML only world. Some techies might but 99% of ordinary people do not.
I'm afraid this is a really awkward statement. There's no way to argue against it or really say anything to the contrary. You've framed it such that anyone who disagrees with you is "a techie" who in your definition does not represent any norm.