Stripe Generator 2.0

March 30, 2007 7:49 AM

Stripe Generator 2.0 - The Ultimate Tool for Web 2.0 Designers. (via)
posted by blue_beetle (52 comments total)

Oh, yes, my pretty. I'll be using that (even if it is yet another of those design trends that will seem dated soon enough). Thanks!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:52 AM on March 30, 2007

That is cool.
posted by chunking express at 7:53 AM on March 30, 2007

Hey! That thing generates stripes!
posted by The Deej at 8:03 AM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]

Neat. And what stav said.

In fact, I'd love to see a roundup of all the Web 2.0 Foo Generator utilities currently in play—and a website designed with nothing but those utilities. Hell, a whole cadre of such designs. Maybe a competition.
posted by cortex at 8:04 AM on March 30, 2007

oooh, foo generators. That would be very nice.

The site is pretty slick, but I can't say I've noticed many of the stripes. I guess I'm Stripe 2.0 deficient...
posted by rmm at 8:07 AM on March 30, 2007

Heh. Look at the navigation bar of this very site, rmm!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:11 AM on March 30, 2007

I'm wondering where all the stripes are as well. I had no idea this was a design gap that needed filling, but the tool is quite nicely done.

What we really need is a tool to mash-up all of the 2.0 "generators" to create entire sites on the fly, which will lead to SkyNet becoming fully self-aware.
posted by mkultra at 8:11 AM on March 30, 2007

Very cool. Thanks.

Soon to come:
<point>I was using stripes before stripes were "cool".</point>

<counterpoint>I stopped using stripes when stripes became "cool".</counterpoint>
posted by spock at 8:12 AM on March 30, 2007

How did they manage to make it so slow?
posted by delmoi at 8:15 AM on March 30, 2007

I don't see an option generate a glossy reflection like the stripe in the page header. Cheaters.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 8:18 AM on March 30, 2007

My favorite part was the part where you could make stripes.
posted by Kwine at 8:20 AM on March 30, 2007 [7 favorites]

Ironically, you have to reload to see your changes.
posted by DU at 8:21 AM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]

Yes, they forgot the glossy reflection. So 1.0
posted by jsavimbi at 8:22 AM on March 30, 2007

They can't make it too easy, Armitage. You have to generate, like, two stripe things and glue them together. Web design is hard work.
posted by cortex at 8:22 AM on March 30, 2007

There should be some kind of user content section--so we can see who makes the best stripes.
posted by Kronoss at 8:30 AM on March 30, 2007

Wow. It does exactly what is says it does.
posted by Mister_A at 8:33 AM on March 30, 2007

How can it be called Web 2.0 if there's no pointless comment section?
posted by zorro astor at 8:36 AM on March 30, 2007

@armitage, @cortex - how quickly you forget the AJAX Reflection Javascript library

and yeah. that's a lot of stripes.
posted by medium format at 8:37 AM on March 30, 2007 [2 favorites]

I got stripes.
posted by Methylviolet at 8:39 AM on March 30, 2007

Shiny Happy. People.
posted by Webbster at 8:41 AM on March 30, 2007

Yipes, Stipe's stripes!

I guess this is better than stealing the background from someone else's site and changing the color, which is what I've always done in the past. So thanks.
posted by iconomy at 8:42 AM on March 30, 2007

Does this website make me look fat?
posted by madamjujujive at 8:43 AM on March 30, 2007

madamjujujive, you look like the reflection of the moon in a still lake, as ever, a beauty incomparable in blue and silver, our heart aflame remembering you.
posted by cgc373 at 8:46 AM on March 30, 2007

No rss feeds? No community?
posted by boo_radley at 8:48 AM on March 30, 2007

Nice. The haters be dammed.
posted by OmieWise at 8:52 AM on March 30, 2007

now i just wish how i knew to use such stripes on my site :(

my site is still html 2.0 compliant!
posted by virga at 8:53 AM on March 30, 2007

There must be a Web 2.1 Alpha out that I've not played with yet, because I don't recall any striped tiled backgrounds.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:57 AM on March 30, 2007

Remember when thin (1px alternating) stripes and microfonts were all the rage? Yeah, those were good days.
posted by boo_radley at 9:01 AM on March 30, 2007

Does this website make me look fat?

Maybe vertical stripes would be better.
posted by kirkaracha at 9:03 AM on March 30, 2007

That's horrible. Really horrible.
posted by tellurian at 9:06 AM on March 30, 2007

This is a excellent tool for those of us who are not talented enough or cannot be bothered with doing our own basic graphics. Also, it makes it very easy to have a site that professionally looks like everybody else's.

I like that The Web 2.0 makes it possible to become a great web designer by using all of these nifty little apps.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 9:10 AM on March 30, 2007

I like the sarcasm so thick you can eat it with a fork.
posted by spock at 9:31 AM on March 30, 2007

I just made some kickass stripes.
posted by jefbla at 9:33 AM on March 30, 2007

Irony and sarcasm aside, this is actually useful.
posted by signal at 9:52 AM on March 30, 2007

Coming up next:
mystripe.com, the social repository for collaborative stripes and commenting about stripes.
posted by leapfrog at 9:56 AM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]

As the original version of my surname began with "mac," I wondered...tartan generator? That's two, right there....
posted by pax digita at 10:21 AM on March 30, 2007 [2 favorites]

Coming up next:
mystripe.com, the social repository for collaborative stripes and commenting about stripes.

Stripr?
posted by mkultra at 11:06 AM on March 30, 2007

It needs a community to bring together people of all stripes.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 11:15 AM on March 30, 2007

How is this useful and who would design a website that uses stripes all over the place?

yoogly
posted by Dillenger69 at 11:21 AM on March 30, 2007

I've seen some web sites that used two-tone narrow stripes of closely similar or complementing colors (say, a deep rusty orange and a dark cherry red) as background, and it looked pretty okay to my non-art-school-edumacated eyes.
posted by pax digita at 11:30 AM on March 30, 2007

Wait, this isn't a joke?
posted by solistrato at 11:42 AM on March 30, 2007

As the original version of my surname began with "mac,"

Hey, my computer's name does too! Is it Scottish?
posted by grubi at 11:57 AM on March 30, 2007

Course it is! Otherwise it'd be crrrap!
posted by bink at 12:08 PM on March 30, 2007

Mystripe.com, the social repository for collaborative stripes and commenting about stripes.

Will I be able to start my own stripelog? Er, strog?
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 12:24 PM on March 30, 2007

grubi, I think I just found you some apropos desktop-pattern fodder.
posted by pax digita at 12:26 PM on March 30, 2007

Course it is! Otherwise it'd be crrrap!
posted by bink at 2:08 PM on March 30

The winner.
posted by Ynoxas at 12:27 PM on March 30, 2007

boo-urns.
posted by Mister_A at 12:57 PM on March 30, 2007

Well, it tiles them quite nicely, at least. (I can never tile things properly.)
posted by IronLizard at 2:11 PM on March 30, 2007

This is one of those moments when I took something as being irony, only to read the mefi comments and realize it's serious.
posted by elwoodwiles at 3:42 PM on March 30, 2007

Wait, so are they sisters, or lovers, or what?
posted by dmd at 7:24 PM on March 30, 2007

As the original version of my surname began with "mac,"

Hey, my computer's name does too! Is it Scottish?

I've always pronounced it Mu-KIN-tosh.
posted by The Deej at 7:55 AM on March 31, 2007

Candygram!
posted by Twang at 12:48 PM on March 31, 2007