WSA Winner
Tuesday December 14th, 2004
Catch this Christmas edition while you can. Kansas City based designers Look And Feel have made a site worthy of the Lee brand.
Muted colour palette, clever (and very 'fitting') treatment of images and well structured XHTML Strict. It isan enormous shame that Look And Feel have chosen to opt for fixed font sizes within the CSS and a few too many links open in new windows, but every site must have room for improvement somewhere. And this one is still a belter.
Reviewed by Andy Clarke
#1
Well I'm pretty new to Web Standards but the "Lee Jeans" Christmas edition website. Is pretty cool. I love the great color platelet, also the flash is very creative and flows with the overall look. It seems to remind me of "Toy Story 2" with all the old 50's Cowboy art and toys.
Posted by Sid :: December 15th, 2004 at 01:15 AM
#2
Kansas CITY based designers. Look and Feel is in Kansas City, MISSOURI. Just an fyi.
Posted by mel hogan :: December 15th, 2004 at 01:04 PM
#3
The fixed font sizes are a bit mysterious, because the site scales fairly nicely in Firefox ...
Posted by Cameron Adams :: December 15th, 2004 at 02:57 PM
#4
hmm, is that link correct? All I got was a flash movie. IMO: Flash == Bad.
Posted by travis :: December 15th, 2004 at 03:34 PM
#5
@ Travis: I've amended the link to point straight to the site in question (USA). Yes, the home page does include a (very nice) Flash movie, but this does not exclude it from an award IMO.
@ Mel: Ahh... Kansas City huh? American geography was never my strong point :( But ask me where Volgograd is and I'll point to it on the map. Ho hum... ;)
Posted by Malarkey :: December 15th, 2004 at 03:46 PM
#6
The Flash content is implemented politely and "in the spirit" of web standards. What bugs me though is that if a user agent has javascript disabled, they get a totally useless site -- the css renders and thus hides the text-navigation but the flash navigation never loads because it's rendered using javascript. I think they should've taken that into account.
Posted by eric :: December 16th, 2004 at 05:02 AM
#7
Very slick site. One of the best CSS sites of 2004 in my book.
Posted by Andy Budd :: January 26th, 2005 at 11:59 PM
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