VTwelve Design Studio

I think that's a really nice site. There is something very refreshing about it - not too many graphics, but the ones used are just very nice and it feels a real pleasure to browse the site.

Top work!!!

A design that can work in an elephant riding on a car yet come off clean and unassuming gets my vote any day. Losing the reliance on pixels would take this site to the next level (text on homepage overlaps itself when enlarged).

BTW - I think this studio is based in Connecticut (see area code on "Contact Us").

hmmm. if the reviewer doesnt think this site is 'all that' and we have 'seen it all before' then why is it in here. yes it looks nice, yes its designed well, but his pages dont even validate, and for very simple fixes, like not putting more than one 'id' on a page. I mean if the 'bar has been raised' then what happened here.

And please dont slag off on me because i am the first descentor, as is most times is the case. im just adding my two cents.

I can appreciate the time and effort and good work this talented person has put in, but at the very least I think 6.8 is way to high.

Funny, I wonder where they got the permission to use the elephant photo. I believe it's a modified version of a poster I own: http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10029947/The_Key_to_Life_is_Balance.htm# (Looks a little dark online, the the real thing looks like the website). Not saying they used it without permission, just saying it looks like a modified version of that poster.

Thats the third design company i have seen with the name vtwelve.

http://www.v-twelvedesign.com/

and the excellent v12 motion graphics studio.

Drew: "Losing the reliance on pixels would take this site to the next level"

And until then, Stylegala should change from "A publication about web design and standards" to just "A publication about web design."

David: "because the code, design and presentation just works"

Feh.

http://www.v-twelvedesign.com/

omg that was soo horrible, hahahahaha. Alan you have better flash in you home page splash than that whole site. no just kidding, i dont want people to start thingking ima flash hater', cause im not. moving on...

Some interesting design ideas on show but I'm not sure they 'work' all that well.

The rollovers look a tad clumsy - might work better if the 'page you're on button' stays as is, but the words change colour on rollover or something - rather than bit's of card appearing.

I think the orange strip could be a little narrower also - it's just a bit to 'in your face'.

Other than that, worth a show for some of its details I guess.

I love the aesthetics of the site but would like to see the headers use real text.

Does nobody else find the half-hidden headers really annoying? :s

I do love the weaving effect going on here though. Just not on the headers!

Nice clean work here, but I have to agree about the cropped headers. Nothing wrong with the idea, but it's been executed too brutally, making them quite illegible.

Refreshing colors, but the site doesn't really render too well in either IE5 and 5.5. Missing menus...

I did notice that the links on the services page look like they should go to the Portfolio (the title even reads 'Click to see all of our cases in websites'), but they don't go anywhere...

I love the feeling the site has - it seems very solid and clean and fun, and I do like the look of the cut bits of paper and stuff.

"God is on details"

? I guess this is Bringlish for "we like to tinker". Circular links, questionable grammar, and the menu onHover indicators I don't like. But I do like the descriptive menu title text, the colourful nature and typography. Apart from being colourful, the stock photography used seems disparate from the site sections.

And I agree, I went straight to the about page to find out the scope of this company, it's important to have some geographical / # of employees information.

I gotta say...this is a very unfulfilling entry. I appreciate the seed of potential this site has, but the reality is...common.

This is sad to say but I feel the navigation and logo would be better served by Flash. The ribbon could provide some excellent animation ideas and would give the page a little more character.

The photos aren't bad but the writing to go with it seems forced. "Fly searching for knowledge to reach our major goals." That just really needs to be reworded.

And more padding-right needs to be in place on cases on the home page. The text touches the edges.

Overall, it's 'nice'.

Bright and airy design but a bit derivative to be honest, and lacks the real uniqueness which should be a mark of sites on stylegala

The design is quite simple yet creative and fun. Better than the average site that I run across, for sure. Granted, it's not perfect, but few sites are. Overall, I'd be quite proud to make a web site that looks and functions as that one does.

The design might not be ground-breaking, but it's the right approach for the public website of a commerical web studio targeting business clients (not other designers). Good design which works well for its target audience - even if it's not cutting-edge - deserves to be showcased.

But I'm sorry the copy is just dreadful. I assume it's a deeply misguided attempt to do corporate design-speak (bad in itself, IMHO) in a foreign language? If English is not the writer's first language this makes the errors understandable, but not foregiveable from a professional site.

OK this may be off-topic for StyleGala, but I don't think a site should be promoted as good-practice when the copy is this poor. Good writing is essential for a good website. I don't expect good designers to be perfect copy-writers too, but they should be professional enough to know when they too need professional help.

The thing I like about the site is that unlike all the other website that employ the same carbon-copy CSS tabs for navigation, vtwelve executes the concept in an original fashion. There seem to be hundreds of CSS+XHTML sites out there that look the same since everyone is using the same navigation tab look and feel. Come on people, try something original already (but don't rip off vtwelve's design!)!

-he who stacks pork

I too did a reverse phone lookup and the number came up under a C. Santos in Danbury, CT 06810. Not that the address has much to do with the site design. But I do feel that "brick and mortar" locations should be listed for designers/design firms.

When I first looked at this website, I was absolutely stunned. Now, about 1 month and a half, I still am.

This website is as clean as it can get and has this great "paper" theme.

Overall the detail in which the website was created is absolutely amazing.

I can say that this is one of the better html website designs around.

I think that's a great site. The design is quite simple but very creative.

Thank.

where'd it go?

it was lovely and now it's gone