This site is fab, I don’t know why you guys don’t like it ^^
Love the overlayed backgrounds; the overall theme of super heroes which extends to the illustration, typography and copy; and nice progressive enhancement.
Personally I’m not sold on the whole transform and zoom thing in CSS3 but I think it fits well here.
Everyone is such a critic on this site! Ha ha. Just because it doesn’t appeal to you, doesn’t mean it needs to be bashed. It’s typical here, and elsewhere, that the only time someone wants to take the time to open their mouth is to complain. Constructive criticism goes a long way at helping a designer! Although this design is not one I would have designed, I respect it.
I agree with what you’re saying and you’ll see my defence of someone’s work in another website that has been submitted on here http://jamesmli.net/.
My only gripe with this site is that the…
• font choice is poor
• the layout seems tight and constrained
• the nav just blends in with the rest of the site and could be lost?
• With the poor choice of font, there doesn’t seem to be any clarity between the text, it all looks ‘bold’ to me
• There’s only 2 featured projects, where are the rest?
These sites are being criticized harshly because people who visit bestwebgallery frequently expect a certain level of work to be showcased…
Personally I think the past two featured sites were/are not up to snuff with what is usually posted on this site.
Don’t get me (or anyone else I’m sure) wrong. I am happy that the people who have submitted these sites are actually doing something rather than playing Halo or World of Warcraft all day. I think its great that they worked hard and completed their websites. I just don’t think they are ready to be showcased.
Not to mention one of the “Featured projects” links on this site does not work, and they both take you away from the actual site… Should probably load in a new window, wouldn’t you think?
Figured I’d chime in on this… I agree with Renee, but Marshall brings up a good point that you expect a certain level of quality, and I agree that this isn’t ready yet.
As for everyone knocking the typography, each typeface evokes a different feeling. I don’t think the typeface is bad, I just don’t think it was used properly. Overall I like the design it’s just subtle things that really make or break the quality of a site, on this particular site that seems a bit neglected.
Another gripe is there does not seem to be very much contrast to distinguish sections, projects, etc. Again this can go back to the typography with the same font for the intro used for headers, and not much difference in size or weight causes some displacement.
To Carl about the showcased projects, I agree. But then again maybe this is a new venture and they haven’t had enough time to secure or showcase client work. Building on that, the only working link for their work goes to a landing page using Arial in images for text and two images of a magazine. Nothing even remotely close to something to showcase on here.
The design isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen but its not necessary worthy of this gallery.
Little details like the angled images having jagged edges and the colors not really having much contrast don’t really help it out. Also the header illustration does a good job at telling the story of the company but it is a very basic illustration.
All in all it feels more like a scamp then a finished site.
I think people have got to bear in mind that some/possibly a lot of the sites on this gallery have not been submitted by the author so regardless of what anyone else thinks, obviously ‘someone’ thinks it is good enough to be here.
Saying that, I do have to agree with a lot of the comments above, it is difficult to judge this as it uses a lot of CSS3 techniques we are not so used to seeing at the moment in your every day sites, but if you can try and strip all those techniques back and look at the site as if it were someone looking at it on older versions of IE for example, the site becomes pretty plain.
I also think the sidebar detracts from the main ‘breaking points’ in the sections on the page. No matter how clearly you define the content on the left into sections, having a single sidebar is always going to make this less obvious.
I also really wanna see more form the work section…. Any ideas on if this will be expanding?
So for me, its points for the techniques attempted, but the base and core elements involved in the site are not the greatest.
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Bad design, ugly font, terrible portfolio, laggy website. How’d this make the front page?
@jeremy
In total agreeance, I’m starting to question the credability of bestwebgallery.com, is this all just about hte creators personal taste?
@ Carl
I believe it is.
Yikes!
I think it’s only here because of its use of CSS3.
Ugly site though.
That typeface is awful.
I love the design personally! The font choice is not so good though.
Until CSS3 is fully cross browser compatible, there is no place for it as yet.
And that doesn’t compensate for a lack in design and functionality.
This site is fab, I don’t know why you guys don’t like it ^^
Love the overlayed backgrounds; the overall theme of super heroes which extends to the illustration, typography and copy; and nice progressive enhancement.
Personally I’m not sold on the whole transform and zoom thing in CSS3 but I think it fits well here.
“Superheroes sans disguise”.
Tim Van Damme much?
Everyone is such a critic on this site! Ha ha. Just because it doesn’t appeal to you, doesn’t mean it needs to be bashed. It’s typical here, and elsewhere, that the only time someone wants to take the time to open their mouth is to complain. Constructive criticism goes a long way at helping a designer! Although this design is not one I would have designed, I respect it.
@renee
I agree with what you’re saying and you’ll see my defence of someone’s work in another website that has been submitted on here http://jamesmli.net/.
My only gripe with this site is that the…
• font choice is poor
• the layout seems tight and constrained
• the nav just blends in with the rest of the site and could be lost?
• With the poor choice of font, there doesn’t seem to be any clarity between the text, it all looks ‘bold’ to me
• There’s only 2 featured projects, where are the rest?
Constructive?
These sites are being criticized harshly because people who visit bestwebgallery frequently expect a certain level of work to be showcased…
Personally I think the past two featured sites were/are not up to snuff with what is usually posted on this site.
Don’t get me (or anyone else I’m sure) wrong. I am happy that the people who have submitted these sites are actually doing something rather than playing Halo or World of Warcraft all day. I think its great that they worked hard and completed their websites. I just don’t think they are ready to be showcased.
Not to mention one of the “Featured projects” links on this site does not work, and they both take you away from the actual site… Should probably load in a new window, wouldn’t you think?
Figured I’d chime in on this… I agree with Renee, but Marshall brings up a good point that you expect a certain level of quality, and I agree that this isn’t ready yet.
As for everyone knocking the typography, each typeface evokes a different feeling. I don’t think the typeface is bad, I just don’t think it was used properly. Overall I like the design it’s just subtle things that really make or break the quality of a site, on this particular site that seems a bit neglected.
Another gripe is there does not seem to be very much contrast to distinguish sections, projects, etc. Again this can go back to the typography with the same font for the intro used for headers, and not much difference in size or weight causes some displacement.
To Carl about the showcased projects, I agree. But then again maybe this is a new venture and they haven’t had enough time to secure or showcase client work. Building on that, the only working link for their work goes to a landing page using Arial in images for text and two images of a magazine. Nothing even remotely close to something to showcase on here.
This font is really ugly…and old style…Remember me the 80′s graphic.. I see better works, sorry…
I wasn’t gonna comment on this but what the hey…
The design isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen but its not necessary worthy of this gallery.
Little details like the angled images having jagged edges and the colors not really having much contrast don’t really help it out. Also the header illustration does a good job at telling the story of the company but it is a very basic illustration.
All in all it feels more like a scamp then a finished site.
My two cents
Well at least this has evoked some nice conversation!
This is the first site that aledesign didn’t like on this gallery.
That’s like the web design equivalent of Paula Abdul saying you’re not cut out to be a singer.
@dudey lol!
I think people have got to bear in mind that some/possibly a lot of the sites on this gallery have not been submitted by the author so regardless of what anyone else thinks, obviously ‘someone’ thinks it is good enough to be here.
Saying that, I do have to agree with a lot of the comments above, it is difficult to judge this as it uses a lot of CSS3 techniques we are not so used to seeing at the moment in your every day sites, but if you can try and strip all those techniques back and look at the site as if it were someone looking at it on older versions of IE for example, the site becomes pretty plain.
I also think the sidebar detracts from the main ‘breaking points’ in the sections on the page. No matter how clearly you define the content on the left into sections, having a single sidebar is always going to make this less obvious.
I also really wanna see more form the work section…. Any ideas on if this will be expanding?
So for me, its points for the techniques attempted, but the base and core elements involved in the site are not the greatest.