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- Added: 08 September 2004
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Yet another large company goes standard, and thats a good trend. To my surpise, the design looks very un-mac. I didnt expect another apple.com design, but neither did I expect it to look so bloggish and earthy. The drop shadow is way too intense for my taste, and the colors makes me think more about gardening than hi-end mac hardware. Still, the site works fine and its easy to navigate and read. Some of the advertisement markup looks bad though and the logo should probably be clickable.
Reviewed by David Hellsing
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Yuck! This I didnt like. The text is too big and the site is just boring. Good content though
Really rather messy, visually. One of those occasions where one questions the need for three columns. Needs tightening up.
Also, users with 800 x 600 displays are required to scroll horizontally to see the whole page. This could be avoided entirely with some liquidness in the layout.
The old-fashioned mark-up for the ads just serves to emphasise the scope for some polishing-up here.
Drop shadows for the sake of having drop shadows is becoming a pet peeve of mine. The shadow on the right side of the tan column makes no sense. It creates the illusion that it is a flap of paper attatched to the header and is lifting up. The layout is still cluttered, perhaps only slightly less so than before. I agree that the ads need to be changed to go with the new look.
This is a good example of a standard, general public site that happens to be coded correctly. There is still good design in there - its not art though!
The coding might be good (except for the ads) but the design is just too sloppy for me, especially for a company that employs designers. They'd never layout the magazine like this...
I agree that the dropshadows have been overused. The ones around the MacWorld logo bug me the most and the left nav is like an incomplete Escher drawing with a shadows along the sides but nothing at the top.
Re: Drop Shadows
AmyO - you're so right. Unreasoned/ unreasonable drop shadows must go. It's details like this that help show the calibre of a design.
Hey lets keep the style in "style-gala". Otherwise change the name to "code gala".
Why fill up your entries with technically acceptable sites that look about as exciting as nail clipping?
There are a million blogs out there as good(?) as this ...
In fact - the thumbnail on this site is the best looking part about it ...
"Why fill up your entries with technically acceptable sites that look about as exciting as nail clipping?"
Marc: I agree that the redesign of macworld is a dissapointment in many ways. I still think its important to feature big companies who goes standard, and its good to discuss it. I could feature a zillion blogs that looks nice, but you've all seen them before havent you?
I commend & applaud companies wo go standards compliant.
A quote from your very own about page sums up my feelings however:
"We want to show you that good design and web standards are two sides of the same coin. Style gala aims not only to promote the finest and most beautiful websites that uses CSS and web standards"
I don't see "two side of the same coin" with this entry. Instead i see a website that wouldnt get a second look if it were anyone less important than
Cont - Mac World...
Ps - might want to strip the slashes out of the preview text area as it counts the slashes as part of the character limit my post above was cut short.
I agree about the dropshadows being overused. I think the they are more annoying for being logically questionable than too strong. The tan column is raised to different heights if you follow the edges around. (although i think monc did a similar thing with )