The front page of this site is, somewhat ironically, a relic of a bygone era in web design. The logo beckons you into the “atomic age”; which was exactly the thinking behind a large proportion of sites from the Internet’s infancy, a time when everything was futuristic and space age, and everywhere made use of the space age metaphor.
Unfortunately there are a lot of reasons why this wasn’t true. In the fifties we were promised hover cars but ended up with the petrol crisis; in the nineties the Internet was promised as new, fresh and instant, yet what we in reality saw looked decidedly amateurish in comparison with magazine print, and was far from instant.
That is entirely the case with 1atom12. The logo is thoroughly uninspiring, and the page itself takes far too long to load. Since all the content on the front page (and there is a massive amount) is contained in a table, you don’t see any of it until it has all downloaded, it seems as though you are waiting for nothing, and I’m sure many will be inclined to reach for the “Stop”.
Though the content does go some way to making up for such lacklustre design and style, the navigation is based too much on guesswork so finding off-blog material will prove tiresome.
This site does border on the “Adult” from times, with a cam view showing semi-exposed breasts, but there isn’t enough to warrant such a label.
Whether or not there is enough on the site to warrant a visit is dependent on taste and patience.1atom12