Website designs that make you go: wow

Have you ever gone to a website and just thought: wow that design is amazing.

This is more to do with the look then the SEO. Pleasing to the visitor not the search engines.

I really like these:

http://www.mochiads.com/ <-- great cartoon looking simple style.

http://www.clubpenguin.com/ <-- a kids site, but it looks great. Full screen and cool even on my 22" monitor.

http://www.newgrounds.com/ <-- really like the colours and the rollover effects on links, aswell as all the pics.

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb


Do you have any links you'd like to share to websites that you think look great? (even if they are your own )

What to you think makes a website look great - and professional at the same time.

Cheers all.

 

http://www.coffeesh0p.com <-- I'm actually redesigning it right now. Thoughts?

 

Yeah that sucks.

 

I love the looks of Mixed Market Arts and John Cow. Two amazing and usable blog themes.

 

lol

Sorry, I know that was rude of him, but I just couldn't help it.

 

www.google.com - No, I'm not joking. Google has completely mastered the art of minimalism in web design.
www.apple.com - One of the more stylish websites on the Internet for the last several years.
www.ask.com - Sure, no one uses it, but it's still got a great design! The new "skins" add a lot.

 

I like good looking sites that don't use or use very little Flash. Just like the ones Phooey lists.

 

How much would you be looking at paying someone to design a site such as http://www.mochiads.com/

 

I completely agree. Sites that use excessive Flash are an instant turn-off. Pretty much any fast food and/or soft drink website falls in to this category. Take a look at www.buffalowildwings.com and tell me that the person that designed the site wasn't some sort of crazed idiot who's only web design skills consisted of Flash and basic HTML. I love their boneless wings, but their website makes me want to kill someone.

 

Sorry but in my opinion those two are far from "amazing".

Definitely agree with apple and ask.com, I think the skins are a great feature.

 

I like the way you can drag and drop items into your shopping basket
Design is ok

 

Mochiads's website is great, btw volll.com looks awesome.

 

My website (signature) is no where compared to the first :-( ......

 

I have only few links which i consider cool
see my signatures

 

Apple.com has a great design. I am not a big fan of flash or excessive graphics. Simple an easy to navigate works well.

 

I really like ChaCha, that's because the images are so "crystal clear".

I am not sure how they do it, but I haven't seen images like this as part of a webdesign before. Especially the hand and the mobile phone.

Jens

 

Agreed, that does -look- pretty cool, although I don't know how I'd rate the usability of it.

 

I have never tried to use it, I just stumbled upon it and thought it looked really cool

Jens

 

Where do you see that, Tobidotman?

 

I too am in search of cool websites so that I may get an idea on what my next website will be like. Thanks for the links tho.