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Terralien
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A living metaphor in illustration, "the difference between night and day". If you notice the foreground illustrations are clearly in the daytime, while the background presents a starry night... Looking for a reference on the site to this design enigma, and I couldn't find one. Is the marketing dept. over there at Terralien trying to slip one by us then?
The layout is not your standard header, two-column layout, and then footer, or is it? There are some smart aethestic design choices that spice up the look of the layout on the various site pages. A super easy to navigate site, with a plain text navigation placed above the free-form light green header swoosh.
The layout gives each element a good amount of space, and doesn't feel crowded in. This visual hierarchy gives the viewer the time to leisurely scan the content. Where some sites fall down with each item screaming to be seen, and all bunched together. A back-end for the site reportedly uses being the app of choice for blog duties, both built with Ruby-on-rails.
A fun site and design by a decidedly geeky bunch of web developers and Ruby-on-Rails fanatics, the site offers the everyday "non-rocket scientist" the opportunity to launch the web application of their dreams by successfully teaming with the qualified developer/designer talent to make it happen. The site makes me want to buy-in to the dream of dreaming big, now if I only had that million dollar idea! If you are one of the ones who are lucky enough to already be "dreaming in code", you might still want these guys on your side to knock out a cool, clean, consistent design. Design credits go to John Long (design & coding), Matt McCray (illustration), and Nathaniel Talbott at the bridge. Ship's log Twenty-Oh-Seven, Five, Oh-One...
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I really dislike the typography. Too many headlines are screaming for my attention.
I like this. The colours balance nicely, the pages are clean and crisp, and I particularly enjoy the way that the design gracefully extends beyond the page.
As Tinus says, the typography does need a little refinement, possibly softened a little, but overall there's something very soothing about this site. It's like a visual lullaby.
Well done guys.
hmmm ... not convinced. Seems a little clunky, and many elements seem positioned poorly. Look at the spacing around elements on the contact page, for example. I think with a relatively minimal design like this, elements should be positioned to pixel perfection otherwise it just looks sloppy and ill-considered. It's just, well, not that great really ... sorry.
this site looks very unconventional and awesome. the only critic i've got is that the loading times are quite long.
Just a quick other note: Ruby on Rails is, indeed, an exciting web framework, and Simplelog seems like a really great application - hats off to those involved on that score - worthy of exposure. But, in all honesty, would the site have been featured had it not been powered by them? Let's imagine it was the same design and mark-up, but a simple blog powered, say, by blogger - would it still have been considered as a showcase? Just a thought ...
LOL...Dude this site is not that great - this looks like something that would be featured on cssvault...I know this isnt "constructive" but man, seems like each month stylegala entries get worse and worse. Go ahead and flame me, I'm negative, but feel I have a reason to be...go ahead and say "don't come here if you don't like it here" and to be honest I don't come that often anymore.
I've said this behind closed doors... but the biggest insult to the community here is submitting nothing.
Trying to analyze what you like and why, and have it inspire others is the whole point some may just find it inspiring. thanks for your input whatever it was