Have to say when I first saw this site a few weeks back I instantly fell in love with it. Super clean, easy to use and a joy to look at. The only negative really is the lack of :hover states!
Joyent is a superbly designed website. It’s minimal without the need to use black Helvetica headings on a stark white background. It’s fresh with the need for gratuitous drop shadows and gradients. It’s simple without the need for gargantuan “CLICK HERE IF UR A MORAN” buttons all over the place.
Truly a stand-apart winner.
Now I’m to copy this sucker pixel for pixel….muhahaha
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The technology page’s diagram is really impressive, I thought it was Flash at first.
The navigation could definitely use a hover state
I agree, I love everything about this site. Great typography, slick 2 column grid system, easy to navigate, and great javascript.
Nav could definitely use hover states, would be my only comment. Even if just an underline like the body links.
+1 for Nav hover state.
Can’t imagine why they didn’t do that. Other than that I’m a big fan of this site. Fresh, clean, friendly, nice illustrations.
Like.
Have to say when I first saw this site a few weeks back I instantly fell in love with it. Super clean, easy to use and a joy to look at. The only negative really is the lack of :hover states!
Again, why did they leave those off? Madness
Hover states are there in IE, just not in FF.
@george – so they are! It seems the tag height is lacking in FF for some reason. Bump this bump and the bottom-borders appear!
After I posted, I used the dev tools in Chrome to have a look around and I realised there was supposed to be something going on, on hover.
For something as simple as a border on a link you’d think they’d manage to get it working cross-browser…
Like this very much. Seeing a few of these asymmetrical, center-aligned designs at the moment. 2010′s style?
What is even more impressive about this site is that its all produced within WordPress
its very good realy
Joyent is a superbly designed website. It’s minimal without the need to use black Helvetica headings on a stark white background. It’s fresh with the need for gratuitous drop shadows and gradients. It’s simple without the need for gargantuan “CLICK HERE IF UR A MORAN” buttons all over the place.
Truly a stand-apart winner.
Now I’m to copy this sucker pixel for pixel….muhahaha
Super fonts! Nice design.
Very good I will recommended to more friends