Hello, im interested in new webdesign trends and i wanted to start a thread to discuss current webdesigns the forum members like. We can do it like that. Website: minglabs.com Why i like it: Its simple, not to much text, the color schema is consistent, the header animation is quite cool (its not a real sticky header, just try it) Hope to see many other cool webdesigns
Honestly, I rarely LIKE a design, because if the design is getting my attention, it's doing so at the cost of my getting at the CONTENT. To me a design shouldn't be flashy enough for me to go "wow, great design" -- it should be unobtrusive and not detract from what's actually important on the page; navigation and content. In that way most 'great designs' are to me some of the worst idiotic crap on the Internet -- take your example of that mung labs pile of manure. It reminds me of the old Wendy's commercial. It's a big bun. Very big fluffy bun. Big Big Fluffy bun... Insane amounts of whitespace to hide a complete lack of meaningful content, ten words per page-worth of scrolling, illegibly thin webfonts, images that seem to have jack **** to do with the page itself, broken heading orders (and therein broken page navigation), goofy scripttardery on the menu for Christmas only knows what... It's a laundry list of how not to build a website before you even poke under the hood at the train wreck of developer ineptitude with the gibberish use of numbered headings, HTML 5 bloat, that idiotic "wrap the html tag in a half dozen IE CC's" crap Paul Irish came up with to cover up developer incompetence, static scripting in the markup, abuse of the NAV tag completely missing what that's for, and so forth. You can tell it's a steaming train wreck of ineptitude; 470k in 28 files to deliver less than 2k of plaintext I wouldn't even go so far as to to call content is NOT good development, and if that's people's idea of good design, well... it explains why I want to line most 'designers' up for each to get a nice solid kick in the junk; since most people who crap out idiotic halfwit garbage like that don't know enough about HTML, CSS, or accessibility to be designing but two things. ... since again, CONTENT is king, anything that gets in the way of that, no matter how 'pretty' it is, is garbage. Trash like that stops being cool the minute it's being used the same way as shellac on a pile, no matter how much you polish it and how shiny the result, it's still just bug **** on horse ****! Probably why I hold sites like eBay and Google up as examples of good design -- even if their code and accessibility are train wrecks too; at least they know what we care about and what's important. CONTENT!
Google and Apple. Both take different approaches but they get their content across in a way that is simple/pleasant.
I like googles website the best, becaues it simple, but its effective as well, and its easy for reading