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On 17/12/2007, Stefan Goodchild <stefan.goodchild at realworld.co.uk> wrote:
> They should have gone with the new Web 3.0 "trend" which according to
> this guy...
>
> http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/11/20/how-to-destroy-the-web-20-look/
>
> ...  is to make websites that all look the same as they did back in
> 2000.  Which is as bad in my world.

Indeed. Although Elliot left a comment giving a thumbs up, he later
posted on his blog that people were missing the point. Which they are.

From:
http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/12/07/elliot-jay-stocks-the-guy-who-told-us-to-destroy-the-web-20-look/

mao: On last post on this blog, I presented your proposal "Destroy
web2.0 Look" and tried to transmit your original idea, which I think
is not anti the web2.0-look, just an invitation to avoid cliches and
to try and adapt trends using your very own design view. This post
caused lots of controversy and at some point the discussion lost the
focus. What do you have to say about that?

elliot: First of all, thanks for drawing attention to it - your post
went into great detail and got lots of people talking about the
presentation. I think it's inevitable that people wander off-topic;
the only frustrating thing for me was that a lot of people missed the
point. I mean, that's inevitable too, because without my commentary to
accompany the slides, I think the meaning was lost a bit. It was
actually meant to be quite light-hearted! But anyway, your
interpretation was correct: I'm not trying to say that gradients are
bad, or curved corners are bad, or whatever; just that these things
need to be used in moderation and that we should think twice before
using the same old elements on every website we design.

Tim