This site has been around for a while, but it still managed to impress. The typography is tight, the colour scheme fresh and the content superb. The site also has some really nice touches like the expandable right hand menu and live comment preview. Great Stuff.
Reviewed by Andy Budd
pretty slick. the firefox logo is tight as hell too.
Posted by justin :: March 3rd, 2004 at 07:10 AM
A well deserved winner. Shame your little thumbnail doesn't the site justice. Jon Hicks is one to watch.
Posted by LintHuman :: March 3rd, 2004 at 01:35 PM
Agreed, well deserved winner. Love the color scheme.
Posted by Tomas :: March 3rd, 2004 at 04:43 PM
I must agree, his site is amazing. Very very well done, and clean.
Posted by Josh :: March 3rd, 2004 at 08:44 PM
hellyes, the firefox logo is excellent - very clean, and it obviously scales very well.
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Posted by andrew :: March 3rd, 2004 at 09:06 PM
I've always been a fan of Jon Hicks' work and this award is well deserved. Congrats!
Posted by Ryan :: March 3rd, 2004 at 11:10 PM
one of my favourites; he deserves this award , with out a doubt.
Posted by Steven :: March 4th, 2004 at 05:43 PM
unsure why this site has been given any sort of award as it fails quite dramatically on a MAC running OS 9 ... *tuts*
Posted by Graham Sanders :: March 5th, 2004 at 12:49 PM
Graham - I've checked using Explorer 5 on MAC OS9, and everything seems fine. Could you let me know what browser you're using, and what problems you're having?
Posted by Jon Hicks :: March 7th, 2004 at 08:31 PM
FAO Jon Hicks
On a MAC running OS 9 using IE 5.0 you gain teh following problems:
1) Whole page scrolls to the right
2) Scroll bar underneath intro text taking you to an abundance of white space
3) Search box displays in 3 different areas depending on selection, a) initially appears at the foot of the page, b) on selecting 'easy reading version' and going back to the homepage the seach box moves up the screen and a white arrow now appears, it will do this also just by selecting info when on the homepage, c) i've even seen the search box appear before the text that says 'easy reading version'
Hope this helps
GS
Posted by Graham Sanders :: March 8th, 2004 at 09:35 AM
Graham, thanks for the feedback. Number 1 is odd, Number 2 only occurs on the homepage, and I can't reproduce the jumping search box problem. I'll see if I can find some way of working around these bugs.
Not sure about it 'failing dramatically' though.
Posted by Jon Hicks :: March 8th, 2004 at 08:06 PM
To bad it's designed for over 800x600: at 800x600 you get a horizontal scrollbarr but no vertical one thus chopping of the head of the page.
Posted by Luc :: March 10th, 2004 at 01:26 AM
Never mind my previous post. The problem described only happens when viewing the page from the link provided here.
When going to the ssite straight forward, the problem doesn't occur.
Posted by Luc :: March 10th, 2004 at 05:04 PM
Oops, seems i spoke to soon. The problem doesn't happen only in the artikels section. All other pages do have the mentioned problem.
To bad.
Posted by Luc :: March 10th, 2004 at 05:11 PM
The site now works in 800x600, and the search box problems that Graham mentioned should be fixed too.
Posted by Jon Hicks :: April 5th, 2004 at 11:51 AM
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