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I'm beginning to plan a major redesign of a blog that I admin, and have been browsing the web a lot for hot pieces of ass web design. I've stumbled across some absolutely gorgeous ones, and some unique takes on popular forms of webpages. I'm not so much looking for content... but rather how the design compliments it.
The Snowsuit Effort - My new favorite website. Not only amazingly designed and presented, but incredible and breathtaking content. Jason Santa Maria - Cool analog to a book. Warpspire - Interesting front page... an amalgam of all his sections. So, what are some sites that you think are absolutely amazingly designed for their application, or offer interestingly unique design? (I've only listed blog-esque pages, but I don't mean to limit others to that) |
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Santiago Calatrava's Website has some cool pictures....its a good example of some flash.
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both of these were featured in communications arts interactive design annual:
www.noedesign.com www.gorachelgo.com a pretty awesome site: www.tokyoplastic.com |
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Oh yeah, and the seizure-inducing bright flashes on the following page don't help it either. *shrug* Primary Rules of Stellar Web Design:
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As far as ease-of-use and logical layouts, I have found that the English newspaper the Guardian has a great website. Quick, no nonsense, lots of easily identifiable and accessible information. And that's its purpose, no?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ While it's not the flashest of web pages, it blows away most sites that I visit in a given day. Last edited by AWR : 2005-11-16 at 04:50. |
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I used to be against it, but with the new text rendering engine, I am starting to support using flash. I especially like the ability to display fonts even if the user doesn't have them on his/her own computer. That is a god send I think.
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"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further" - The Great Gatsby |
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It's one thing not to agree with it, as I sometimes do, but calling it poor quality is wrong. Anyway, back on thread.
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I have to agree - a very powerful message and interesting too. Some of the sotries and some of the faces are incredible, they just have life written all over them. Nice choice The force is strong in this one |
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I really like the look of Binary Bonsai. Others may not, but I think its a really nice simple design.
It has certainly influenced the appearance of my blog and the redsign that i am in the process of. |
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Burton, the snowboard manufacturer, has had a really slick site (at least design-wise). It does require Flash -- I think -- but at least it runs smoothly, and I really, really dig its style.
That's the first that came to my mind. |
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best website design ever -
www.google.com |
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http://www.designarchives.aiga.org/
warning: this site contains moving parts. |
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I've never been a big fan of Flash based websites. It just allows for some very horrible things... like that 'scrollable' text area that only scrolled when you hovered over the up/down arrows - arrows that could render off your page. |
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*waits for someone to post the kick ass designer*
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