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Oxford Hotel
Current rating: 5.2 (566 votes)
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- Added: 13 May 2007
- Designer: desero
- Submitter: Andrei Don
Review:
When first visiting the site I initially thought it was another flash website, but a further investigation shows that it is rather a great use of JavaScript to get the same effect.
The site itself is clean and easy to use, which is a great place to start. The navigation is clear and easy to understand, even though I don't speak the language. The site uses a sliding door approach to display their content in an small space and on the same page.
My favorite part of the site has to be the "Garlerie Foto" page. The gallery is really intuitive, fun to play with, and an amazing showcase for the Hotel. It is a little buggy without JavaScript enabled, but it still works.
Even their form validation is cool. The best part of this site, for me, is that even with the cool features and nice uses of JavaScript the site still validates and even works without JavaScript enabled!
A great job all around by the people that created it.
Reviewed by Seth Aldridge
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The font size is far too small and a major deficit concerning the overall appearance. What good is a site if I cannot read its content? There is no way of increasing the text either.
Otherwise I like this design very much. Simple and aesthetic design. Very nice.
Visually this is very pleasing. I was also pleasantly surprised that the site remains usable when javascript is disabled. And even without the css, one can still get information from it. Somehow it managed to crash firefox, but I assume that this was only a one-off.
Even though I must admitt that the text-scaling is poor, the site made a very good overall impression on me...
Given that scroll-bars appear at 800 x 600, this site would benefit from some slightly larger text, as even my young eyes are annoyed to read it at that site. Given the target audience of such a hotel I think they're trying to appeal to an older field as it is, the fact that manually resizing isn't handled well (and the menu doesn't enlarge) makes this even more of a problem.
That all said, the rest of the design is pleasing and the responsible use of javascript is well done.
Inspiring. It wouldn't surprise me if we start to see a whole crop of these fancy-transition, fixed-size combo's in the near future. Thanks for sharing this one Seth.
It kindof breaks if you enlarge the font size too.
Great idea though, I really like the concept and it looks good.
The navigation doesn't works with Javascript off in Opera.
The navigation doesn't work in Opera with Javascript off.
It also breaks the back button. Does somebody know of way to create this effect WITH back button support?
I am sort of bothered by fixed height sites, that being said they have really done a good job. You'll never get the box size right only for the average window size, if there is no allowance for the design to be larger or smaller than the average, there are js/css solutions to determine window size and serve up an alternate sized design.
They might of allowed overflow scrolling, wouldn't that of been a better option than having the text hidden off the bottom of the containers, if the user bumps the text up?
Having the gallery scroll vertically, really fits the design.
The use of golden ratio layout is very nice too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
I'm not mixed about one thing, great gallery site, nice use of mootools js library.
Do you really need that many containers?
Oh God yes... :)
Nice Website problem is a no skale the font-size from Navigation.
Great looking design. One thing I had a hard time with was finding out exactly where it is. I had to read the comments here to be reminded that I can infer that it's in Romania through the URL. But I can't find location info on the site. Should that stuff be obvious even for those who don't speak Romanian?
Very impressive site alright. I assume you saw it featured on the daily slurp yesterday? www.dailyslurp.com
For me 6. Is good but too much brown, and too small text in menu.
"It's nice and original but everyone seems to be forgetting the biggest problem with this (and all Flash) sites" had to read that line a few times, but lets be clear for others, this is not a flash site, however, the comment is valid because of the framing and use of javascript.
No one said this was flash, anyway many comments on this site were written just for the sake of being written.