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Patrick Haney, Not a Sausage
Current rating: 5.3 (612 votes)
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- Added: 09 April 2005
- Designer: Patrick Haney
- Submitter: Patrick Haney
Review:
In my brief time as a Stylegala reviewer, I've noticed a recurring trend: great design, but rough code. (Maybe I'm too uptight about structural markup?)
This site continues that trend. The only two headings used on the page, for example, are H4 and H6. It seems that Patrick may have fallen into the "big, bold and ugly" thought trap that makes people avoid H1 tags, even though they can be styled to look as petite and demure as anything else.
Don't let my initial negativity throw you, though. It's an easy code fix.
More importantly, this site is gorgeous. It has an crisp Apple aesthetic that's hard to achieve without being parody. The layout is fresh and appealing. He succeeds admirably at breaking out of "that standards look."
The visual details help seal the deal. The green ribbon, the blue burst, the list bullets, the double rounded borders, etc., all help provide a rich, pleasant, and surprising user experience. It's amazing the difference a few well-chosen details can make.
Overall, a great design for inspiration and ideas, and a great role model for designers wanting to break out of the CSS-based design echo chamber. Whether he's a sausage or not, Patrick knows how to make a tasty site.
Reviewed by James Archer
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Very nice website, although he could do something about the "not a sausage" stop-sign; it doesn't look too good. Otherwise it has some very nice touches to it.
But there's also the code... which is quite ugly.
It is not a sausage, I will give him that much (not a typical run of the mill css site).
Keep up the creativity. U-RAH.
Resize the text one notch in probably any browser. The boxes don't stretch to fit content.
Other than that looks pretty good.
Not a fan of large sausage signs either. My buddies in college probably would have been though.
Wow, I'm honored. I honestly didn't see my site being featured here, at least not so soon.
Your comments on the lack of H1 tags is right on. The reason I skipped them wasn't to avoid the "big, bold and ugly" trap though. I suppose I thought I'd use them for something larger than the heading of the page, but in retrospect I should've known that would be the larger text. Something I need to fix for sure.
The code. Yes, it's not pretty. The CSS needs to be cleaned up quite a bit, this I know. Also, as Robert mentioned, the text doesn't resize well. Something else I need to take a look at.
Thanks again for the feature. I'll use the spotlight as motivation to clean up the site further.
PS. No, I am not a sausage.
I thougnt that it was quite creative in that Patrick made his site look like a big box of soap (which is not a sausage) when he used the "Version 2.0" box.
I like the humor in his design.
kharris (might very-well be a sausage.)
I like it a lot. A very nice design that breaks quite effectively with the traditional blog layout. Nice graphics too. Good job!
Nice site, visually impressive, but not as nice as this site I found - www.curriegrafix.com
looks to be accessible too, very nice indeed
I find it hard to know where to look, but I guess that once I read everything I would find it easier the next time. Everything is there on screen without scrolling so that makes up for it feeling a bit cramped. I have my browser font set at 12 minimum and the text fits OK in the boxes for me (Opera 7)
www.curriegrafix.com is excellent, I cant recommend you visit this enough, I was too was blown away!
Why are you turds spamming about some other site (the curiegraphics) here? Posting here is for posting about the specific site of topic.
I must say, I think that Patrick site is very pleasing to the eye and has a touch of much needed humour.
WE NEED MORE HUMOUR!! Sorry :S I just keep thinking that the internet has become stale and boring.
Well... not bad.
Gorgeous is the right word.
But I still think CSS rules over everything in web publishing, anyway.
Aldo