M122Arts

I like this site alot. I don't think it's crammed at all. I think it would have been 'tring' to hard to make each section another page. let the images do the talking.

That said, clearly they could have used a table for the obvious tabular project list, or am I just lossing my mind? I think maybe they got carried away ( divitus )... or they really ,really, really want people with non browsers to be able view their site? just my opinion, and before the 'zealots' break out the microscope on my own home page I am trying www.climaxdesigns.com/conversion (cssreboot member Nov. 1)

Eventhough not really anything revolutional the site looks nice, I especially like the contact form at the bottom of the page. But.

First of all, I think that site offering web designs shouldn't be so much targeted to developers. I'm quite sure that "Yes, less tables and more speed, baby" will mean nothing to anybody else but CSS designers.

Secondly as noted by david, the project list table is probably the most disturbing divitis-symptom I've ever seen. Come on, if the content is a table, use a table... if you find yourself naming a class "row", believe me, you are doing something strange... tables for tabular data. Try upsizing the font in your browser to see one reason.

Damn, I feel as I accidentally jinxed the site when my finger slipped and I gave my own review a 1! This site may not break any new rules and while it suffers from one case of divitis in the front page, the website's simplicity and straightforwardness still charms me.

Nice and simple site. But if I disable JS the divmania-table does not work. If I disable images the headers disappear. I think 'clientlistcont' should be done as a list. Thats my 100 dollars, I think it looks nice :)

Me like :)

Yes, this site is not 100% semantic correct, but the color scheme is really good, typography even better. And it doesn't look like anything else (more or less), it's quite unique. That is nice to see these blog-days.

But as Mr. Khmerang said, maybe the site is targeted to the wrong audience. As a web designer I certainly like it, but what about average Joe who wants a homepage to his company? Maybe it works, maybe not.

The first impression is “ah, this is good”, but a closer look will reveal some minor issues.

I think it's a very cool looking site, but it's a bit disappointing to see that resizing text doesn't make elements shift. Seems like an easy enough layout to do without fixed heights.

I agree with Mr. Khmerang about the targeting of the site. You aren't trying to get those of us that visit StyleGala as clients, but rather people who don't really care if the site uses tables or not.

That said, why DOESN'T this site use a table in that project list? Tables for tabular data. Probably could have saved yourself a whole lot of frustration doing that.

As Mike said, the site doesn't react very well to resizing of text, either. But there is no reason it couldn't with a few minor adjustments.

On the positive side, the background pattern is really attractive and I like the dark to light gradient from the top. And the contact form is interesting as well.

I feel like this site, with a few adjustments, could be better than it is.

Sure, the graphics are nice, but the markup on this site is too poor to deserve credit. Did you resize your browser window? The background on the top splits from the background in the body. And yeah, that should be a table there. This website is allright, but nice graphics are not enough to make a good website.

This web site deserves credit for its aesthetic achievements, but not much for its usability. For example, I know very few of my past clients that would even notice the tiny 'scroll' arrow in the 'selected projects' section, never mind know what it might do. This is a massive usability faux pas! People need to recognise the potential function of a user control. This is why the contact form fails too. Potentials clients won't have a clue what to do with that!

Also (and I know I’m being petty here), 'indicization' is not a word, as far as I can tell.

The background for M122Arts site is lifted from http://www.24-7media.de/ who allowed the pattern to be posted in the K10K pixel library and authorised it for "solely non-commercial purposes".

Goes without saying M122Arts are using it for commercial purposes breaking copyright law and demonstrating a severe lack of originality on their part.

Mental note: Never hire these guys.

That last comment is a bit harsh.

Mental note: Be kinder to my fellow man.

Harsh, but true.

True, the pattern seem to be coming from http://www.24-7media.de/

However you may want to wait a little before to post harsh comment like you did.

Who knows how they ended up using this pattern? They may have permission to use it. Or they found it some place where people offer free stuff they "borrowed" from others without knowing it was right protected? ...

Lee, you've got a pretty good eye for noticing this, but I would not say the same thing concerning your tongue.

Sorry, but I really don't like this site. I find it empty and uninspiring and what's with those div tables, pointless and unusable when text size is increased... just use good'ol fashioned tables, they are there for a reason.

I prefer his previous design, version 2. (http://www.m122arts.com/v2.0/index.php).

I'm not an English major or anything, but shouldn't the headline be, "Yes, FEWER tables and more speed, Baby!"?

Hello all. First of all thank both to critical and positive posts, obviously everybody has got his own idea and vision about things so every comment is welcome.

Mostly the one about our background pattern. In fact we used it because we found it in a cd we had bought!!! And I have never noticed that it was used for another site or obviously I had never used it! However.. a new pattern is on and with the sliding problem solved ;) !

Another thing I would reply to is the question of the "div table" in the homepage. You're right. I should have used a table, but.. It was a personal style-exercise.. I thought I wanted to try to put these data without any table to see if it was possible, so I tryed with my own site, not for a client. Is it so serious? Or it's justified that I experience to do it with my own site?

I AM an English major, and I back up Dave Simon. Having a grammatical error in the headline is no way to make a good first impression.

wich grammatical error?

let me know..

In Firefox the links for the client list don't get recognized as links, and in Safari they link to the wrong sections. Try Volskwagen.

there are no links for the client list actually! ;)

i found no links to information about the guys or their services, the html validation failed on several pages. to my mind the whole site is quite disorientating, though i like their showcase.