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#1 2009-05-02 08:41:36

chetmiles
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The JS Website: It is what it is.

Before it was revamped, there was an illustration on there by Guttuso.  I didn't really know the name too well, but took it in my head with me to Italy and when in and out of every bookshop I could find in Pisa, then Florence, until I located something. 
I used to love the old adverts, and only wish they'd been a bit bigger.
Some things change, some things stay the same.  I'd very much like that shot of Ken, John and Jeff together reinstated; maybe it will be. 

What I have found, though, over the three or so years I've been looking at it, in whatever layout, it's been in the spirit of the shop and the guys who work there.  Too often I look at something and it's all singing, all dancing and I'm soon off it - within seconds. 

There's a lot to be said for olde-worlde charm.  Even sometimes for modernists. 

Carry on, Big J.

 

#2 2009-05-02 12:09:54

Just Jim
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

Seconded.

JG translates the JS ethos to the Net.

Nobody else has.

 

#3 2009-05-02 12:12:43

chetmiles
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

Nothing quite like a labour of love, is there?

 

#4 2009-05-02 12:15:33

Just Jim
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

It makes all the difference.

As you know.

 

#5 2009-05-02 13:49:08

1966
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

I guess it's just right. It's about as web savvy as the big boss himself wink

Some said the site was "bad" - and we have good reasons why - but I guess it was never meant to be a prize winning example of a website in the first place.

I can see its charm and why you like it as it is.

Last edited by 1966 (2009-05-02 15:04:50)

 

#6 2009-05-03 05:20:26

The Laird of Enfield
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

Only thoughts I had aboot the site were that from a commercial point ay view I thought he mighta encouraged folk to order some stuff online - given that the business seems to be struggling somewhat thought it coulda been selling to folk unable to get to the shop on a regular basis.

Course maybe he consciously didnae want to go doon the online retailer route.

 

#7 2009-05-03 05:52:22

Just Jim
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

Talking to JG once he said that he felt sure that if he was to tell JS he would no longer be doing the website John would just shrug at the very most.

He ain't bovvered.

 

#8 2009-05-03 07:04:56

chetmiles
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

And he's right not to be.  And that's why he's different.

 

#9 2009-05-03 11:18:14

The Laird of Enfield
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Re: The JS Website: It is what it is.

 

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