Ok. After 9 comments, it’s time to be constructive. Everyone is spitting on the design and walking away. I see this too much on these kind of galleries – likes & dislikes – no advice.
How about we all be more creative by offering actual advice to the designer of this website.
Designer of Clearspring ~ we can’t tell you how to design your site (or your clients sites), but you could definitely use more original color and/or layout elements to enhance the page. Maybe you chose Apple’s design because you felt some of the targeted audience (Apple users) would feel more comfortable here. Who knows. Regardless, there are ways to make this site look more original.
Being influenced by other designs is not a crime, but it’s best to use influences as a base, not a final outcome. You have a great color swatch going on in the main homepage banner. Use this to your advantage. Maybe apply more color like this to the overall design.
Ok. Here’s the list of ‘borrowed’ techniques this site has taken from Apple.com:
1. light background gradient
2. the main nav
3. colour scheme (apart from the blue)
4. main header font treatment (the gradient)
5. curved panels with drop shadows.
6. the ENTIRE footer bar – curved panel, font colour, layout, background gradient, drop shadow.
Is it me or does this whole site lack the plain subtleties of great design? I mean the footer is so poorly done, the outer glow is absolutely horrendous! It looks like someone took a “web 2.0″ styleguide and re-created it poorly.
A real bad choice overall for BWG, 1. The design itself lacks any real creativity as stated above w/ the apple comments and 2. The designer didn’t even execute said style well!
I feel the clearspring site is really well done actually it’s been a very influential site for me. To say it copies apple because it uses “a gray gradient” “large buttons” is absurd – so does every site on the internet.
Your comments are useless as they provide no useful information to anyone but yourselves, designer-wanna-be noobs.
You need to get real and start using the internet for things that really matter.
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Ok. Enough of the Apple.com clones already!
Personally, I love this cool clean look, whether or not it is copied from apple. But actually, apple’s site is metallic, but this one’s more blue-ey…
Thank you Foobar. It’s nice to see that a number of people are already sick of these crap-imitation mac-wannabe sites.
This isn’t that exciting. Too Apple like, and the glossy is too Web 2.0-like.
Come on Best Web Gallery. It seems like there’s a good site every once in a while, but then it hits rock bottom again.
Please excuse my question but how is it apple like? I can’t link the two at all.
@David Parel: Look at them side by side… i’m sure you’ll see it
Kind of off-point – but didn’t discreet logic have that logo treatment as well years ago? (font face, asterisk)
Its a shame that everything that looks clean and navigates well is an Apple clone… This is the web 2.0 look…until its not.
@Drew:
Looks clean and navigates well doesn’t equate to an Apple clone.
The Times Online UK? Facebook? etc. None of those are apple clones, yet are clean and navigate well.
Glossy buttons, big, fat, shiny icons, etc. = those are apple clones.
This site trying to ripoff Apple. Especially look at the navigation!
Ok. After 9 comments, it’s time to be constructive. Everyone is spitting on the design and walking away. I see this too much on these kind of galleries – likes & dislikes – no advice.
How about we all be more creative by offering actual advice to the designer of this website.
Designer of Clearspring ~ we can’t tell you how to design your site (or your clients sites), but you could definitely use more original color and/or layout elements to enhance the page. Maybe you chose Apple’s design because you felt some of the targeted audience (Apple users) would feel more comfortable here. Who knows. Regardless, there are ways to make this site look more original.
Being influenced by other designs is not a crime, but it’s best to use influences as a base, not a final outcome. You have a great color swatch going on in the main homepage banner. Use this to your advantage. Maybe apply more color like this to the overall design.
@Chikezie Ejiasi
Very well said.
sorry. Apple does NOT own white and gray. Nice job Foo!
Are you serious jbudd?!
Ok. Here’s the list of ‘borrowed’ techniques this site has taken from Apple.com:
1. light background gradient
2. the main nav
3. colour scheme (apart from the blue)
4. main header font treatment (the gradient)
5. curved panels with drop shadows.
6. the ENTIRE footer bar – curved panel, font colour, layout, background gradient, drop shadow.
maybe jbudd is the creator of this site LOL
Is it me or does this whole site lack the plain subtleties of great design? I mean the footer is so poorly done, the outer glow is absolutely horrendous! It looks like someone took a “web 2.0″ styleguide and re-created it poorly.
A real bad choice overall for BWG, 1. The design itself lacks any real creativity as stated above w/ the apple comments and 2. The designer didn’t even execute said style well!
Sub par.
I feel the clearspring site is really well done actually it’s been a very influential site for me. To say it copies apple because it uses “a gray gradient” “large buttons” is absurd – so does every site on the internet.
Your comments are useless as they provide no useful information to anyone but yourselves, designer-wanna-be noobs.
You need to get real and start using the internet for things that really matter.