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Stuart Row Landscapes
Current rating: 5.5 (410 votes)
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- Added: 18 March 2005
- Designer: Brian Spaid
- Submitter: Brian Spaid
Review:
This site will probably chug on modems due to its hi-fi design, but this is a great example of attention to detail in what at first glance might appear to be a simple site. Take note, for example, of the subtle transparency on the main content area.
The off-angle images, the vivid photography, and the attention to detail make this a great site to study for fresh technique ideas.
There are some down sides, though. The extensive use of graphics will prevent the site from being peppy for some users; some of the text images appear fuzzy due to compression; there are a few unnecessary layout tables; and they seem to have missed validation by a single character.
All things considered, though, this is a fine new work by Media Pulse, and I hope to see more of this from them in the future.
Reviewed by James Archer
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Great site; The colors will make night to day. Good colors was choosen and site is good reading/navigations. The designer has lovely played with details and that i'am love, too.
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I'd like to know how they got the footer2.png transparency to work in IE6. Nothing obvious glares at me from studying the stylesheets and source code.
It's a marvelous design.
See for the fix that it looks to me like they implemented.
Pretty glaring to me :)
<!--[if gte ie 5.5000]>
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="/css/ie.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/pngfix.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
As for the site, I cannot stand that terrible compression on the images. Totally ruins the site for me.
Whops, comment form ate my code. Look at the source to my comment above.
>>Pretty glaring to me :)
Doh, I totally ignored the commented section. Thatnks for pointing out my oversight.
This is an extremely well executed site. The design is perfect and a nice change. But the image quality definetly ruins the overall look and feel.
Well, considering the size of the background images and the additional fact that they are fixed, the compression is a necessary evil to keep the download even slightly manageable.
Large background images are a tough challenge to deal with, especially when they can't tile.
It's not a neccecary evil. The stripe background could easily be a 100% quality gif that is tiled. Then have the logo a high JPG/GIF, and the flowers a low quality JPG - cutting down download time
Looks a lot like they were just lazy with the site... a little bit extra work would have made the site appear 10x better. I suppose after further inspection, I don't believe this site should even be featured here. A site like that would never have left my shop, or any shop with a proper QA sy
Brian definitely has a fresh and unique style. Very soft, clean and easy design to look at. Nice that he doesnt follow the 'boxy' look that so many follow. Good job man!
Brian, what a beautiful design. If the landscaping sector was packed with professionally designed sites, you would still reach the pinnacle for UI, original creativity, clean colours and quality typography.
I would personally add an invisible home page link to the top right logo, and continue with business card link. Print media needs some small tweaks, but apart from that, well done.
Thank you all for your comments. As you can imagine this design posed a few logistical problems when I got to the build phase. The cross-platform PNG transparency took a little while, but the key there is 1px vertical repeating images fixed with the conditional-commented IE-only stylesheet with DirectX filtering (see /css/ie.css). ...more in next post...
Thank you all for your comments. As you can imagine this design posed a few logistical problems when I got to the build phase. The cross-platform PNG transparency took a little while, but the key there is 1px vertical repeating images fixed with the conditional-commented IE-only stylesheet with DirectX filtering (see /css/ie.css). ...more in next post...
...The home link of the top-left logo missing still bugs me, but I haven't found a good fix to the IE fixed positioning bug. HELP! Somebody? That would fix the image quality problem some of you are complaining about because then I would be able to separate the logo from the background graphic which is what I wanted to do in the first place. Anyone have any ideas?
Great site! I love it! It's not that often that you can see a really fresh web solution nowadays! Definitely went as a bookmark to my “Good design” category.
<p>compressing your images</p>