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Sunday November 20th, 2005
You want proof that you can make a CMS site with plenty of content completely Standards compliant? This site is it.
The folks at Pixelworthy have beaten the Ektron Content Management System into submission, allowing them to produce this hard rockin' magazine's site entirely in XHTML 1.0 Strict validating code.
And the design's pretty nice too: good whitespace for actual reading, just the right amount of angles, and some decent photography. However, that doesn't necessarily save the writing :P I'm still trying to figure out whether this guy liked the album or not.
Reviewed by Cameron Adams
#1
Mixed feelings about this one.
The imagery is nice (albiet unoriginal - what is it with grunge nowadays?), and the navigation is intuitive, but all the white space just seems out of place.
It almost seems as if they designed the site without content in mind, and made space for it at the last minute.
All in all a good design. I am just too critical :P
Posted by Zach :: November 24th, 2005 at 05:38 AM
#2
I agree with Zach in terms of design, but less so. I really like the site, good representative of web standards. With some image replacement and some simple link focus, it'd be more accessible and even better. Otherwise, very well done. Nice to see the use of lists. Congratz.
Posted by Mike Cherim :: November 25th, 2005 at 01:13 AM
#3
very nice... slurp!
Posted by Fabio Polisini :: December 3rd, 2005 at 01:04 AM
#4
Hm, I think every midrange CMS is ready for xhtml and standard compliant contents. This site is no 'proof' for that - the half of here nominated sites have been produced by using a content management system but using more elegant content than this one, I think.
Sorry, but in my opnion this site isn`t a good example for a standard compliant use of cms based content - the template design is okay but none of the text contents looks designed...
Posted by Frank :: December 3rd, 2005 at 03:41 PM
#5
Well, I don't like it seems boring to me. For me the color are unusual maybe that's why I don't like it but overall, good work.
Posted by Reuler :: December 4th, 2005 at 03:22 AM
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