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God's Smuggler

Current rating: 5.3 (402 votes)

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  • Added: 10 November 2004
  • Designer: Jon Hicks

Review:

Nice little mini-site with the classic book concept and right-wing tabs. Interesting rollover effect on the nav, I'm not sure if it looks like I'm grabbing the tabs or pushing them down. The minimal approach works great for this type of site, but I would like some more images and other visual goodies in the book. Nice rollover effect on the dates, even if they are based on javascript. That image-map map over england doesn't look too good either, I'm sure that could be done with lists and absolute positioning. Otherwise a clean coded site with some nice graphic details that you would expect from a guy who was our .

Reviewed by David Hellsing

There are 4 guest comments so far.

commentat 17:17 on 10 November 2004, joos wrote:

When you roll over a date, the text disappears beneaneath the Iframe so you can't read what it says. Regarding the design - it's yet another torn paper site which is difficult to navigate. I think it's being to clever when a simpler format would have worked far better. From a users POV it is frustrating to use.

commentat 19:30 on 15 November 2004, Stark wrote:

I don't think it is at all difficult to navigate, in fact its a lot easier to use than a lot of the very 'blog' inspired sites that always seem to be featured. Big easy to read tabs, clear home button, nicely presented content.

Another good job by an excellent designer, its nice to see something different being put out there rather than evey site looking like a blog.

A good example of 'usability' not being the be all and end all of the web, welcome back creativity.

commentat 16:56 on 15 December 2004, Scott Johnson wrote:

Regardless of some of the minor bugs that some may have seen in this site, I believe that this is another excellent example of Jon Hicks' fabulous work.

commentat 17:12 on 15 December 2004, Jon Hicks wrote:

Just to clear a couple of things up. The javascript is there to add the event information, not to create the rollover effect (this is css, with a small javascript to make it work in IE - suckerfish menus basically). I'm not sure the map could've been done as a list with absolute positioning, as it would've restricted the clickable area greatly.

Anyway, thanks for covering the site!


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