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Farwoods Design
Current rating: 5.6 (452 votes)
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- Added: 10 January 2005
Review:
It took a couple of views before I decided to add the farwoods design site to the gallery. I don't know - it's just a really solid site with some great standards-compilant coding and nice visual touches. It looks pretty standard at first, but there is a lot of nifty details going on under the hood. Super-clean, valid markup with a well executed accessabiliy effort and I also believe that the xhtml content is served with the correct mime-type. The overall design impression is not wildly innovative, but it stays out of the way and gives a pleasant overall browsing experience. Those rollover-dropshadows looks quite familiar though... Great job.
Reviewed by David Hellsing
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Its a nice site but for me it's too close to http://www.fortymedia.com/ to be counted as an original design
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Alright being constructive then, the layout does resemble 40 media and the drop shadow image on the left does look familiar. But still it is a solid design, I would have to say that the main navigation doesn't stand out enough.
This is indeed a nice site, but it seems that there is something that is just not quite right about it. I can't quite put a finger on it, but there's something that I just don't like. I still give it an 8, though.
I like the site overall. I think the layout works well. I do think that the large image on the left is a bit distracting to me and isn't too interesting as a photo. The colors work well. I think the headers look nice, but the rest of the typography is bland. It gets a 6 from me.
On the surface the design looks good. It sets some sort of expectation, however I feel that the expectation is as clouded as the central focus of the homepage. "What am I supposed to be doing here?" - design is about direction and directing - this is not very obvious here. I find that the flow of movement does not have a harmony. I don't think that the overall execution was done very well. This barely scrapes through, because it's painstakingly designed, but without a global vision. A 5.
Green is my favourite color combination i think... (when uset with itself that is)... me like!