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A smary blog site that is sure to make you blush at times. Overall great blog site design. Simple and pleasing color palette. It is not overly busy and is easy to maneuver.
A great design website full of lots of design ideas and information. Very nice layout and set up of the page. Simple and very easy to use.
A wonderful site full of inspiration and ideas. The layout of the website is clean and well organized. It’s easy to manuever through and keeps the viewers intrest.
One of my all time favorite websites. I would love to work here someday. I think the site is full of wimsy and character. It is easy to manuever through and the way that it is designed it makes you want to look at the next page and then the next. Great layout and design!
One of my favorite sites to explore. I want to purchase everything. I think using the old school video game font really adds to the look and feel of the site. The bright use of colors also plays along with the fact most of the items on there are toy cameras. Even the style of font for the logo works wonderfully.
The Converse Official Site is just a really fun well designed site. The theme of the site changes according to the color on the color wheel that the visitor chooses. It looks like a scrape book with various photographs on it and hand drawn illustrations. The background and navigation are all just a basic black and white design but the product graphics bring color and life to the page. All of the graphics are also movable and when clicked brink the information to the front of the screen. I think the font and style choices seem to follow along with the overall theme of the site.
Of course I may be a slight bit bias being they are my favorite shoe!
In the article “The Elements of Content Strategy” by Jason Santa Maria, he was looking at the common occurrence of web designers and bloggers everywhere. He was discussing the habit of putting so much emphasis on the design of a page and the graphics on a page, that there is a complete lack of focusing on the content. I completely agree with him on this subject matter. I think more attention needs to be. There are flashy pages all over the web but what keeps a viewer returning to your page is the actual content. If you don’t have that you don’t have visitors!
The Awesome – JavaScript website has a fun cartoon or comic book feel. It kind of appeals to the computer nerd. I like the simple black, white, and gray color scheme with just that pop of teal as an accent. The script font for the logo works with the cartoon superhero but is will accentuated with the more modern font for the rest of the page. The layout for the page is clean and easy to navigate with the buttons along the middle. When you mouse over the navigation you get a pop up bubble that tells you about what content that button will take you to.
The Florence and the Machine website is just a fun website design. It is for the band Florence and the Machines of course and it doesn’t look like your average band or music website. It has a kind of eclectic old feeling to it. It has roses and plastic lungs and butterflies…. just an odd assortment of oddities. The overall feel of the site though is very well done! I love the dark muted graphics, the wood grain background, and the vintage looking photographs. I think that the colors and font choices really reflect the overall theme of the site and the movements and sounds that continually run also add the viewers experience.
The SCAD website to me is everything a website should be. It utilizes clean and simple design, making it easy to navigate and explore. I love the black background and the way that the images fade into the black background but you have a punch of color with the pictures that acts as a navigation system. I think that the way the pictures slide to reveal the larger image is a really cool idea visually. It lets the user participate in the website experience in a fun and creative way. I think the simple text and modern font compliment the overall feel of the site. For an academic site that is trying to get potential designers to attend their school they have done an excellent job of showing what their school has to offer.