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AdaptD
Current rating: 4.8 (258 votes)
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A lot of great design is coming out of Eastern Europe at the moment. When I look at sites that have been submitted to the gallery for review it can be hard seeing the wood through the trees. I am happy to say that this one just popped out at me.
The initial view of the site says this is something a little different. It is not breaking new grounds but what it does do it does well. It is well coded, clean in layout and well presented. Again this is a high contrast site and it seems to me that a lot of designers are favouring this style right now.
The accessibility is not great. Some of the text is far too small and some of the contrasting colors a little too dark but having said that it does tick a lot of boxes.
I was suprised to see that it passed validation as so many sites I view that say they validate, just don't. Validation is not the be all and end all but the closer to the standards we can get the better for the industry as a whole.
AdaptD is a small web design and development firm based in Bucharest, Romania.
Reviewed by Simon Terrence
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The website has some problems on Safari: background offset and color profiles.
Not seeing any problems in Safari here, or Firefox.
Shoot them a contact if you've noticed something maybe.
I really like this one Simon -hang in there friend!
Yes there are some problems with the background images in safari and it looks perfekt in firefox. nevertheless I like the site.
After being greeted with a lightbox pop up asking me to take a survey I immediately left the site. I didn't even take a look at their portfolio, which is where I had intended to go.
No amount of good design, of which this is a decent example, can make up for such a blatant disregard for user experience.
This site was great before the pop-up, what were they thinking ?!
Hi guys. Thank you for the feedback. We really appreciate it. I'm very happy people like it. There is a lot more coming, we will add, update and upgrade a lot over the next couple of weeks.
We are working on the safari issues (thaks for the tip) and we are also looking into other more "exotic" browser.
And about the survey... well let's just say that wen we set it up for testing we were not expecting this much traffic...
Looks good in FF - no probs. But I really like the site in the portfolio "euroest arhitectura". Awesome use of images...