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Jake Tracey
Current rating: 5.8 (465 votes)
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- Added: 04 August 2005
- Designer: Jake Tracey
- Submitter: Joseph Wain
Review:
It has been said that of all the Stylegala reviewers, I'm the one who seems to bypass the visual design and gets most obsessed with how good the markup is. No sooner have I glanced a design and decided I like it than I'm in the Firefox WebDev extension ripping it to shreads and looking for errors.
Not this time. Jake's site has more than enough interface pleasure to fill any review.
The content is very carefully organised, and the colour palette is muted without being drab. The JavaScript tabs in the sidebar are nothing new, but here they're so beautifully executed (love the fade in/out) that they seem incredibly fresh.
The information hierarchy in the design is apparent, even though older items appear before the most recent, and although this site is small in scope Jake offers options aplenty around the main content. The influence of web application design (think Basecamp's user-centred interface) are obvious here.
Just one caveat to all of this. With JavaScript off, the tabs don't work. Jake has provided access keys as an alternative however. Still a great website.
Reviewed by Simon Collison
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I like the style and organization of Jake's interface. A clean departure from mainstream blogs, but not too much to account for "artistic" unreadability. It's all there. Clean, clean code.
Great job.
Realmente o design está muito bem planejado. Aproveita bem o espaço da tela e destina boa parte da interface para o conteúdo.
The design is excellent, the tabs are very cool. The only niggle I found is the LiveSearch spinner has a white background. Overall a clean and very readable site, with a big coolness factor.
Thats funny, I just found his site the other day and really it both the design, and the content. Good stuff. (he's a young guy too from what I can gather.)
Yeah nice, like the fluid design, works well - the javascript fade doesn't look cheesy either - looks quite classy. The layout also makes the site very easy to use.
Just lovely. Simon says it all in his review. I have very little to add.
While it's for a worthy cause the "Make Poverty History" banners are filling the web quite rapidly. Even for a good cause, I still don't like ads of any sort, it's the only thing I dislike hands on.
I loved the tab navigation! I would have liked to see a little darker color on the tab font, however.