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Hiram College
Current rating: 5.6 (386 votes)
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- Added: 17 September 2004
- Designer: Cameron Moll
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Its always good to see designs that departs from the typical blog-dropshadow style. Even though the Hiram College site uses dropshadows extensively, they are carefully placed to avoid irritation, in contrary to a certain . The colors are modest and nice, no sparkling colors nor grayscale, they feel smooth and comfortable. The tabs works fine as well. The photography could be improved though and I would not call the design wildly innovative, but nonetheless a nice site with some great positioning of elements.
Reviewed by David Hellsing
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Pretty and functional, but everything seems a little slow loading. And if you're going to go fixed-width, go all the way. Don't half-ass it. Looks good, though.
For a conservative college like this, I think the colors and layout fit perfectly. I like the rotating main image on the front page. Most of all, I like the structure given to the content. Wish my own university (purdue.edu) had its own site this well organized!
Jace: Explain how this site is half-assing it.
This site is great with the choice of colors and drop shadows, yet I notice the slow-loading.
Absolutely beautiful classy style. Clean, well executed. Photography is a bit suss. But overall, it has the instant wow factor. Text colourings complement the overall colour scheme and it's easy to read and digest. I don't find it slow at all but being in europe I may not be exeperiencing the same traffic jams as guys on the US. Worthy addition.
Beautifully organised, visually-speaking. Typographically just about spot-on, too, showing a deeper appreciation for the scope of varying weights and mixing serif and sans fonts than one or two of the higher-rated sites here (at the time of writing).
There are quite a lot of pages to be found behind each of the global navigation tabs. The IA appears well-organised - navigation is a pleasant, transparent experience, all reinforcing the site's stately calm. ;)
Sorry for the confusion. I really like the site. I think it looks great, but they 'half-assed' the fixed-width thing. The backgrounds go all the way (full width), but the text doesn't. I just think it would look better if they'd either go with full width or fixed width.
The background going full-width horizontally gives a nice effect for this particular design. The site wouldn't look as good without it. Similarly, it wouldn't look as good with the text going full width. I think it was a good design decision for this site, and I hardly see how that's 'half-assed' considering either way probably takes the same amount of effort.
Anyway, I think the design is great!
I agree that the background looks nice and helps flesh out the page. I don't think this was a half-done site at all.
In fact, for the school I work for, we are looking at his horizontal and vertically-stacked menus, and thinking we might do something similar.
cute layout, i like the difference betceen the blue and the gray