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Dress for Dialogue

Current rating: 5.4 (630 votes)

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Added: 17 January 2006
Designer: Mat Wiseman
Submitter: S. Aquino

Review:

I saw this site some time ago and got impressed by the consistency in it's design elements throughout the pages. I love the light turquoise blend in the header together with the flat red wallpaper and blacks. Great graphic details and a nice front page as well.

It took some time before I found the menu (it's located near the cross in the header), probably because of the white text color on the light blue background. The code is also quite bloated with div's in the header that could be re-done with cleaner markup.

From the Submitter:

"The aesthetics of conversation. Beauty shots of visual and written narrative with body. No bullhorn required"

Reviewed by David Hellsing

There are 16 guest comments so far.

at 13:20 on 17 January 2006, Marko Mihelcic wrote:

I enjoy surfing on Dress for Dialogue,very colorful and nice site indeed!

at 14:13 on 17 January 2006, Zeerus wrote:

I love the overall unique feel of the website, and a larger type size for the newer posts on the top of the home page seem to draw me into the site, or that specific post. Overall the design is very consistent and the colors work well together. The site is easy to look at and very useable, but web "beginners" may find the site a little difficult to navigate compared to the usual "right out in front" navigation they're used to

at 17:02 on 17 January 2006, Nathan Smith wrote:

I have always liked this site, and his latest re-design is great. The only thing I miss is the old olive drab green color from "Tone Shift."

at 19:32 on 17 January 2006, Dave wrote:

Wow! i saw this ages ago on CSS beauty.. still lookin good

at 20:58 on 17 January 2006, BigA wrote:

A rather nice balance of wicked worn and straight forward, clean design.

at 20:59 on 17 January 2006, Christian Montoya wrote:

It's about time! Dress For Dialogue is a great design indeed, very original too.

at 16:36 on 18 January 2006, Inguna wrote:

This is one of my favorite sites because it's fresh, a bit edgy, sophisticated color scheme, play of textures. Just love it.

at 21:41 on 26 January 2006, Norman McKenzie wrote:

A great design from Matt Wiseman whom I consider to be one of New Zealand's leading CSS web designers.

A great break away from traditional web site layout - this is a site for other designers to inspire and inform... Aside from the design, the site is entertaining, and the copy warm and friendly - and fun to read! Great work Matt - I love this site...

at 02:20 on 28 January 2006, Mani Sheriar wrote:

Cool looking for sure, but after looking around for a while I didn't have a clear idea of what this site was actually about. Worse than that, when I tried to read an article to find out I had a hard time reading the small, white, serif font on top of stripes.

Oh, and ... how do you navigate around? I know I could "figure it out" but I don't think I should have to - on anyone's site. It should be clear, but maybe that's just me.

For me a site has to look good, function intuitively, and be readable for it to all come together. (But I'll admit that, as a designer, 'look good' rates at the top, so I still enjoyed the chance to have a look at this site.)

at 15:34 on 28 January 2006, Trevor wrote:

I totally agree with Mani. My immediate reaction was "wow nice design" but it took some time to figure the site out, once I did I got to reading a post then felt a slight pain behind my eyes realizing it was fonts and the bright negative red :/

Overall it's great but I wouldnt be regular until something is done about font/background.

at 05:07 on 30 January 2006, Velaluka wrote:

has a CSS Zen Garden feel about it.

I give a 9/10

at 11:32 on 04 March 2006, jonas wrote:

This design is great and the look feels expressive. The color sheme is fantastic. Respect.

at 13:52 on 08 March 2006, Brock.be wrote:

The site sure is renewing, but some color combinations are just not my "thing" ( the blue and red f.e. )

at 22:20 on 19 September 2006, kieren wrote:

Nice looking site but it was quite slow loading even with fast conection!

at 17:35 on 01 October 2006, Ciezarowe wrote:

hi, color sheme is fantastic, saw this ages ago on CSS beauty - I give a 9/10

Mr Ciezarowe

at 21:36 on 25 November 2006, rachunkowość wrote:

8/10

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