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For me, neither website renders without javascript. A blank screen's a poor first impression. Maybe it's a pet peeve but I'm sure I'm not the only one who blocks JS by default.

Also, making the panels on the right of the landing page opaque would aid readability.

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Thank you, I'll take is as a valuable feedback for the landingpage, which really needs some more improvement.

Regarding the non-JS users. I am wondering how you can survive in the modern web. That shouldn't be meant as offensive statement, rather than I have the gut feeling that most websites are more like apps currently, running heavily on JS. That really makes me wonder...

No offense taken. I use noscript to whitelist websites and grant temporary permissions to others as needed.

To clarify, I have no problem with you using JS. I know I may have to enable it go gain functionality sometimes. My gripe is that on your sites I get zero functionality without it.

I don't mean to cause offense either. Thought it may be something you hadn't considered is all.

You're absolutely right, I didn't consider it at all, shame on me, and a lot of shame. Actually, I didn't even think of it, although that is something I am almost praying when working with clients: make your sites at least usable without JS. Weird that I got caught there. Thank you.

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