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Cactuslab
Current rating: 5.3 (622 votes)
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- Added: 08 April 2005
- Designer: Matthew Buchanan
- Submitter: Mat
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First thought: Ooooh, lookit the pretty backgrounds (re: bubbly body and Hilroy lined-paper content)!
There are a few things that CactusLab does different: one, The company's name doesn't have the word "design" after it. Two, the logo is quite enormous, but it doesn't seem that way because it's so simple and graphically strong. And three, they use the ".lab" extension after every section/filename.
They took their name and all the "lab" connotations and ran with it. Talk about strong branding, and managing to keep it elegant and simple. I love their very restrained use of flash in the small sIFR headlines and their continually bubbling cactus beaker.
My caveat? The navigation is kind of blah, and the products pages look incredibly different from the rest of the site.
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And where's the "Connect 4" game? Where is it? That was so cool.
Besides that, excellent redesign. Only the portfolio thumbs could be a tad bigger.
I love this site, excelent colors... the water background is great. It is just nice to stare at
Ok, so the flash logo is cool; but, hell, they could replace it with image on other pages than the main one. I mean, it's quite distracting when it's on every page - sure, keep it bubbling, even keep it in flash, but don't draw it from scratch every time you load a new page.
Otherwise it's pretty neat, but I can't say that it's something special overall. The only special thing is the background, which I really like.
definately one of my favourites.
Navigation box doesn't change when I increase my font size - maybe an alternate stylesheet with bigger fonts would be a plus ?
Nice site otherwise
I like the way the 'exercise book' both contrasts and ties together the liquid graphics, whilst at the same time focusing the eye on what is important - the content. Take away the vertical pink and horizontal blue lines and it would not work. Great stuff!
The site is original and the background is very appealing. Though, IMO, the central column is a bit too narrow, especially on my widescreen PowerBook. And the navigation menu could be a bit more interesting, with some nice little details. And the logo IMHO is way too big.