WSA Winner
Wednesday January 26th, 2005
My first award for 2005 and one with a slight 'agenda'. There have been some designers who implement designs using web-standards who have recently been talking more about design and using standards as a 'means to an end', rather than 'an end in themselves'. I hope that this will be the year when stunning creative design and standards-based code become 'just the way that things are done'.
When creative designs are implemented using web-standards, everyone wins, and this site is a perfect example. Gorgeous visuals, clever touches and a (mostly) intelligent use of Flash. Sure, the navigation is visible only with Flash enabled, but this can be easily fixed with a little replacement content. Perhaps,
<ul id="nav-main">
etc.
</ul>
#nav-main {
position : absolute;
top : -10em;
}
There are some sites that make me think I wish I'd done that!
This site is one of them, what more is there to say?
Oh, a belated Happy New Year!
Reviewed by Andy Clarke
#1
I really like the style of the pen :-) Great choice!
Posted by Remi P. :: January 26th, 2005 at 07:01 PM
#2
Pure art!
Great color combo, simple content design, and very readable. Congrats.
Posted by M.Saleh.EG :: January 26th, 2005 at 07:37 PM
#3
the 'rough' style of the pen does so not fit to that aqua sort of fade in/out background on the startpage..
i dont feel comfortable on that site..
splitting their portfolios doesn't make sense either.. i'd rather go for individual pages if they insist on that..
i like that vanilla/chocolate colors though..
Posted by Thom :: January 27th, 2005 at 12:24 PM
#4
Very nice! great drawings but......... doesn't the layout look a little bit like
this?
Posted by piet :: January 27th, 2005 at 02:57 PM
#5
oeps ... like this then ;)
http://www.iso50.com/
Posted by piet :: January 27th, 2005 at 02:58 PM
#6
This is hands down one of the best websites that I have seen. The artwork is great and so is the humor in the journals. Love it!
Posted by William Day :: January 27th, 2005 at 04:34 PM
#7
Very nice website. I explained use of flash integrated in xhtml in my website at this page :
http://www.gizax.it/vtre/blog.php?id=7&lingua=IT
but is in italian language :):)
Posted by Daniele Florio :: January 28th, 2005 at 02:48 PM
#8
I really like the style of this site. It is really interesting how they are using Flash for the header and navigation. Beautiful....
Posted by Bob Duncan :: February 2nd, 2005 at 02:20 AM
#9
I don't know, but the screenshot you took for WSA looks like a giant penis.
Posted by Neko :: February 4th, 2005 at 01:35 PM
#10
nice clean and simple site.
yes,looks realy like a penis :)
how does it work with a flash integration when a visiter has no flash installed?
tutorials ? links?
thx
Posted by dex :: February 9th, 2005 at 07:27 PM
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