Not such a fan of this, although I’m never that keen on highly illustrated sites. I just feel that, while it is great use of ajax and all, it feels gimmicky and rather clunky to browse and doesn’t encourage me to explore the whole site. Good in some ways, bad in others.
@DanC: This version is kind of experimental. The whole goal was to try as many things in JS as I could. The previous version was more usable and content oriented.
@Adrian: I don’t really care, because I don’t sell anything. Not even design services. They’re all experimental tryouts. I have a permanent redirect though. Thanks for caring.
@DanC Do not mistake this for your everyday site to browse. Yeah, the top menu is hidden and I had the same problem to go back from one page to home. And I had to work my brains to figure out where the clickable areas might be.
On the other hand this is a designer site. Kind of “look what I can do!”. Something very personal, a signature if you want.
To complain about usability in this case is like going in an top-architect’s living room and then complaining you can not find similar furniture in Ikea.
Alex, I’ve been following your stuff for the last two versions now and I must say that this one takes the cake.
It’s obvious to me that this was an experiment, as there’s no cliche “work with me” text slung around everywhere. However, I do agree with Rich in that the navigation could be a bit more intuitive.
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Amazing.
Beautiful site, really nice graphics and animations. The only thing I didn’t like was the hidden top menu, I was kind of lost at first.
Not such a fan of this, although I’m never that keen on highly illustrated sites. I just feel that, while it is great use of ajax and all, it feels gimmicky and rather clunky to browse and doesn’t encourage me to explore the whole site. Good in some ways, bad in others.
Keeping your website as “versions” is never a good idea.
ie: http://www.yoursite.com/v2/index.html
Really bad seo practices.
Thanks guys.
@DanC: This version is kind of experimental. The whole goal was to try as many things in JS as I could. The previous version was more usable and content oriented.
@Adrian: I don’t really care, because I don’t sell anything. Not even design services. They’re all experimental tryouts. I have a permanent redirect though. Thanks for caring.
@DanC I can see why you’re not such a huge fan of heavy illustrated websites >:)
You like more minimal design, like 24ways.org perhaps
Stay young, stay foolish… and … original!
@DanC Do not mistake this for your everyday site to browse. Yeah, the top menu is hidden and I had the same problem to go back from one page to home. And I had to work my brains to figure out where the clickable areas might be.
On the other hand this is a designer site. Kind of “look what I can do!”. Something very personal, a signature if you want.
To complain about usability in this case is like going in an top-architect’s living room and then complaining you can not find similar furniture in Ikea.
I dig the aesthetic but I think something could be done to make the UI stand out more… maybe some tooltips?
@Rich – They’re on my to do list, unfortunately. I have work stuff also on my to do list
Nice, other than that I think you have a slick design going on. Good job.
Alex, I’ve been following your stuff for the last two versions now and I must say that this one takes the cake.
It’s obvious to me that this was an experiment, as there’s no cliche “work with me” text slung around everywhere. However, I do agree with Rich in that the navigation could be a bit more intuitive.
In any case, bravo.
@DanC 24ways wants their everything back.
@Alex I can understand the desire to experiment with your own site and test out new things, I just found it a little hard to use and confusing is all.
As for all the 24 Ways references, it certainly influeneced my design but so did many other sites and offline inspirations too.
It seems two websites cannot share even a few similarities these days without people immediately jumping down the designers throat.
Time to get over that I think.
I love this website really original and nice taste in color and effects.
AB always try new things and that is really inspiring.
Congratulations.
Nice design..even I don’t like the scroll in every page…But is a great work! Congratulations!
Great jQuery, love the use of effects. Not sure why you would use a Squire Strat though
@Chris – Because that’s my guitar
Ultra Cool, your previous site design was also something special Alex!
Rock On… brotha’!
Love to see this is not a Flash website, good work as usual
Once I figured out the UI, it was a fun site to surf through. I like it.
I like it — looks awesome on my 27″ imac