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I come bearing a request of the noble denizens of G&T:
I am currently part of a team writing a paper at university, investigating automatic aesthetic measurement of websites. Problem is, we need a set of websites that we can use to test this engine we wrote. The even bigger problem is that these websites must be 1280x800 pixels or less and (I know...) have few background and images where focus is text. The first condition is easy, the second makes things very difficult. We have spent hours upon hours trawling the internet, trying to find website that match those parameters. We have had little luck.
So now I turn to you, G&T, and ask for your help. If you know of any websites that match the above conditions (even if it is really shit), could you post them here or PM a link to me.
P.S. I know this sounds like an H/A thing, but we need this fast and I came to the people most likely to get this.
tl;dr: we need websites for research paper that are less than 1280x800 and have few images with text as focus and few background images (background image condition is the least important of the conditions).
It's hard to find sites designed in the old "oh no, there must be no scrollbars and no images, because our users are too stupid to scroll down and have connections measured in bauds" school of thought nowadays...
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I don't mean to do a search, I mean the homepage.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html
What about:
http://gmail.com
http://hotmail.com
(many login pages are like this really)
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
http://mit.edu
http://harvard.edu
(most of such school homepages are small portal pages)