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Monolinea
Current rating: 6.1 (565 votes)
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- Added: 02 May 2005
- Designer: Kemie Guaida
- Submitter: Hans E. Hyttinen
Review:
Kemie has a well-stocked portfolio and a nice little site to showcase it. Javascript is coming strong this year, as more and more designers and developers find out how to use it without disturbing the natural flow of the document. Kemie proves that javascript can replace many of the typical flash-like effects without loosing accessibility points.
The colors are nice and well thought out, as well as the icons and typography. The interface stays out of the way from the content and that is always a good thing. Maybe she is over-using rounded corners in the interface design, and some of the margins and paddings might be too small and causes the layout to seem cramped and squeezed in some sections.
The site does not seem to render properly in IE, and for a commercial site you cannot afford to be snobbish about browser support. Otherwise a beautiful clean site with some nice javascript effects and a strong portfolio.
Reviewed by David Hellsing
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Great portfolio.
This is really nice portfolio, a 'must see' one! I like interface details like 'loading' GIF and JavaScript fade trickery. However, with a few adjustments David already pointed out (paddings), this will be even better. I would also like to see more intuitive navigation. Kudos for the icons and illustrations!
Sorry, my bad. Thanks for the correction Chavalina.
I really like this site. Especially love the javascript enhancements to the navigation experience particularly the sliding focus. Plus, all of the navigation seems to be accessible if javascript is turned off. Nice.
Hmmm. sorry to double comment but I have just noticed something I think should be done better. If you click on a main navigation item, the secondary navigation changes to reflect your choice but the actual content stays the same until you choose that secondary item. Should maybe default to the first sub-nav item so that everything stays in context. Still like this site a lot though.
Nice site, but for some reason Safari keeps reloading the stylesheet on every page. Something to do with Safari's cache I guess.
The navigation breaks in Safari 2.0. The background mouse-over thing renders half way down the page and covers up body text.
Problems with the navigation in both Safari and Camino, (different problems, as mentioned above), also noticed the stylesheet reloading in Safari.
Does not work flawlessly in Safari 1.3 either. Some white boxes cross the screen somewhere down hovering the contents instead of being at the sub-level navigation bar. The "interface design" pixelated hand does not fit to the rest, even if it's supposed to be that way, I don't like it.
I've been a Kemie fan for a long time, and I was excited to see her redesign.
She was rushing for the May 1 Reboot, so I'm sure she's still trying to work out some of the bugs.
yes nice javascript effects...and nice colors shemes...
This sites design is great (I really like the icon work). I'm not a fan of the font choice for the nav tabs and sub-nav though...it doesn't seem to fit. That's probably just me though.
This is what I would clssify as outstanding work, as far as the color scheme goes.
The site is beautiful but the font used in the header and the buttons doesn't really fit the look of the site. A better fit would of been a modern sans-serif font. Other than that, the website is flawless. I love it.
Wow, this is a very stunning website. Left me in awe when I realized that those weren't flash elements, but were made entirely in CSS/JS.
My only complaint is the superfluous use of rounded elements in the nav bar; and some problems dealing with how text is handled. Else, everything looks perfect in my eyes.
I give major props to whoever made this website. With the soothing layout, color choice, and especially the extensive and creative use of Javascript--I give this website a perfect score.
Another great colour scheme that really works. Will join everyone else in applauding the JS menu rollover - stand-out feature of this site definitely. Very high quality stuff all-round as far as I'm concerned.
P.S. Unfortunately the mouse and illustration icons do remind me a bit of MS clipart...sorry!
A great design that shows that there is no need to implement a website using Flash to get such effects. Great colour coordination, impeccable use of JS. And great portfolio too!
Kemie has got pirated by Template Monster :(
http://www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/9113.html
That is really sad, getting the site pirated by Template Monster. I really don't like that company!
I see "TEMPLATE 9113 HAS BEEN REMOVED" on that page, so seems owner bought the template, what is wrong here?
its normal..