Skip to Content


Gallery / FortySeven Media« previous | next »

FortySeven Media image

FortySeven Media

Current rating: 5.4 (262 votes)

Votes are closed for All Stars entries

  • Added: 20 January 2008
  • Designer: FortySeven Media
  • Submitter: Jonathan Longnecker

Review:

Portfolio and Blog of FortySeven Media, Kick Awesome Web, Print and Media Designers:

FortySeven Media or (47m), is making the grade in 2008, with it's new design that resonates a lovely warm color palette and a mix of "ink on paper", ever so slightly grunged, new yet vintage-looking layout characteristics.

On the creative side, besides the graphics, the 47m site throughout has some flair in the copywriting and content areas. The right mix of fun, funny, and useful content even makes the blog appear to be a keeper, so you might want to add this one to your RSS reader.

On the technical side 47m has thrown in a varied menu of tasty treats including; sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) Head Tags, jQuery slide-toggle elements (click the "Contact Us" beneath each portfolio entry), solid web standard techniques, and bringing it all home with the ExpressionEngine content-management system.

These new kids on the block, namely Jonathan Longnecker and Nate Croft, look to be an up and coming young design firm.

At least I'm digging there stuff so far in 2008, and I hope you all will too.

Reviewed by Tyler Gossman

The Zen of CSS DesignThe Zen of CSS Design
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites.
Buy at amazon for only $26.39

There are 10 guest comments so far.

commentat 22:14 on 21 January 2008, Fundraising Ideas wrote:

Nice use of colors.

commentat 12:37 on 26 January 2008, Steve Tucker wrote:

Great website, really pleasant to browse around. And I love the 'Dont hire us' bit. Well done 47m!

commentat 14:21 on 27 January 2008, Emo Hair wrote:

Im loving it. Nice inspiration to create such a beautiful well designed theme..

commentat 00:46 on 29 January 2008, annie wrote:

Nice site but why o why is it every site designed in expression engine is soooooo slow to load pages?

commentat 16:14 on 29 January 2008, ty wrote:

The load time is ok here, it could be the add-on's like the jQuery UI elements, and the sIFR slowing down the load times as much as anything.

I think the sIFR titles would load last, so it is not a simple top down load order as is the norm.

commentat 03:04 on 31 January 2008, Chris Olberding wrote:

i like the design and colors. but and i know this is petty, looking through their portfolio made me think they slurped down the 'web 2.0' design ethos a little too greedily. looking at this or any one of their sites i'd have a positive reaction, but taken as a whole i'm less sure about that.

commentat 13:58 on 02 February 2008, steven wrote:

The load time is ok. web 2.0 desing can be applied well

commentat 13:10 on 05 February 2008, Adrie wrote:

Considering all the graphics, I think load time is very good. Also, the "vintage"-look is a source of inspiration for me.

commentat 02:46 on 06 February 2008, TerryReeves.com wrote:

Very eye catching design. Gives a very "homey" comfortable feel.

commentat 23:51 on 10 February 2008, ehliyet wrote:

The link appears to be broken or the site must be down.


Gallery by month:

Gallery by rating:

Gallery All Stars:

Comments / recent

About digimurai: Very nice design. Give me more.... [more]

About digimurai: Hmmm...Design is ok but nothing gallery worthy. I ... [more]

About from scratch design studio: [...] hampered the execution of this design.... [more]

About from scratch design studio: I've no issues at all against featuring flash site... [more]

About from scratch design studio: I think posting a flash site on the (formerly?) pr... [more]


Search

Features

Stylegala BookStore
The Stylegala BookStore has a massive archive of great books for you as a professional..
Bullet madness
Bullet madness is a list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons uploaded by our users.
CSS Reference
An alphabetical list over the most common CSS1 and CSS2 syntax and properties.

Sponsors

Logo design for $149

Advertise here