Best site designs?

Dave! · 27-10-2009 11:08pm #1

Hey folks,

I'm not sure if there's already a thread about this (there probably is), but I've spent the last few days (between doing actual productive things!) looking around at various websites for some inspiration

There's some great designs out there.

Let's leave aside most of CSS Zen Garden's designs

eg. Mark Boulton's website
http://www.markboultondesign.com

I also love this one
http://twistedintellect.com

Isn't white space great???

Dave! · 28-10-2009 2:10am

Oh here's a couple I forgot about

http://www.subtraction.com

I love this

http://www.misterpresident.org

kgpixels · 28-10-2009 9:45am

Flash used to its full!

http://www.leoburnett.ca/FLASH/index.htm

Liam Byrne · 28-10-2009 12:38pm

kgpixels wrote: »

Flash used to its full!

http://www.leoburnett.ca/FLASH/index.htm

Class site to "play" with, but I had no idea what the site was about from the home page, it's pretty difficult to navigate, and I still have no idea what "big black pencil" actually do!

RobertFoster · 28-10-2009 2:01pm

And it resizes my browser window, so I've even less chance of knowing what it's about as I've closed the tab already.

Dave! · 29-10-2009 3:23am

This site uses Flash a bit more delicately to great effect

http://www.whitenoisestudios.com

HandWS LTD · 02-11-2009 4:29pm

Also, Mark Boulton's website says they design websites but it consists of errors. Thats not good for anyone who plan to design websites as a service.

Pixelcraft · 02-11-2009 4:53pm

It's going through a re-design so that's probably why. The site though is still well coded and perfectly accessible. Seriously, Mark Boulton's one of the best designer's around, and has been designing for a long time. I don't think any of us here are in a position to criticise his work.

HandWS LTD · 02-11-2009 5:12pm

Hi pixel.....you are prob right about that. I'm not critising him as a designer but the errors he has. Didn't think it could be a redesign.

I'll look again in a few months.

Dave! · 22-12-2010 12:29am

Hey folks, just wanted to bump this because I think it'd be good to have a thread to post good designs and perhaps critique them! I'm looking for inspiration and am always looking around at sites, particularly portfolios, for good techniques and the likes.

Feel free to post up more! I've a few bookmarked on the laptop, so will post some myself later

Dean820 · 22-12-2010 2:39pm

Jim Carrey has the most flashiest website known to man:

http://www.jimcarrey.com/

titan18 · 22-12-2010 2:52pm

http://www.2advanced.com/

I find this site to be quite cool

Abelloid · 23-12-2010 12:05am

I really don't like Flash... not sure why, but I'm instantly turned off sites that rely on it..

I do like this -

http://benthebodyguard.com/

anbrutog · 23-12-2010 2:25pm

Good thread.

I find Creattica to be a fantastic resource myself , some wonderful stuff there...

http://creattica.com/

Lostinspace · 23-12-2010 5:42pm

Hi OP,

I find that Web Creme is excellent. You could spend hours looking through it.

http://www.webcreme.com

anbrutog · 23-12-2010 5:43pm

Lostinspace wrote: »

Hi OP,

I find that Web Creme is excellent. You could spend hours looking through it.

http://www.webcreme.com

Never heard of that one , some great stuff there!

Vurnon San Benito · 24-12-2010 6:57pm

Never mind flash.
Look at Chris Pearson's website. Truly class.

http://www.pearsonified.com/

lil_lisa · 27-01-2011 10:46pm

This is a fun design:

www.oddodesign.com

(Although I personally love it just for the bus!)

TitoPuente · 30-01-2011 5:55pm

Doocey wrote: »

Never mind flash.
Look at Chris Pearson's website. Truly class.

http://www.pearsonified.com/

It's a pretty standard looking WordPress blog. Nothing special there whatsoever IMO.

desaparecidos · 01-02-2011 12:26am

All of these supposedly good designs are nothing more than pointless glossy brochures, which would fall on their arse if applied to a data centric real world website.

lil_lisa · 01-02-2011 1:39am

desaparecidos wrote: »

All of these supposedly good designs are nothing more than pointless glossy brochures, which would fall on their arse if applied to a data centric real world website.

This thread has absolutely nothing got to do with the data/databases in a website, how it processes/sorts data or even whether its functional in any way or not. This is about design. I think if you want to discuss the architecture of a website then maybe you should start another thread about it.

Pixelcraft · 01-02-2011 11:14am

desaparecidos wrote: »

All of these supposedly good designs are nothing more than pointless glossy brochures, which would fall on their arse if applied to a data centric real world website.

That's like saying my car would be crap if it was used as a bus.

Dave! · 04-02-2011 2:31am

This is pretty awesome

http://www.copterlabs.com/

Liam Byrne · 05-02-2011 12:50am

Dave! wrote: »

This is pretty awesome

http://www.copterlabs.com/

Have to say I hate it. The "broken-up" font is hard to read, and the site has far too little whitespace. The "enlarge on rollover" screenshots aren't z-indexed properly, appearing "under" each other, and the enlargement viewer is bog-standard.

The headers in the blog don't give you any idea that they are links (ironic considering the topic of the first blog entry)

Add in that the navigation jumps you around the place and I would have to say that that's a site that I'd rate very, very poorly.