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Current rating: 6.5 (1268 votes)

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Added: 23 September 2005
Designer: matthias edler-golla
Submitter: matthias edler-golla

Review:

I like this site, it appeals to me. But beyond the subjective, the site has a lot going for it.

1. Although it is managed with Wordpress, the designers do a great job of avoiding the typical blog layout.

2. The navigation keeps the site very clean and very usable. The addition of position: fixed is an added bonus.

3. Typography and spacing seem very airy and light. Maybe someone has been reading Mark Boulton's grid system series? :)

4. What two-person studio goes to the trouble of having a bilingual site? Bonus points for that.

5. Fluid layout. The font resizer widget works well too.

6. Code is very tight, no div-itis, but they do have a lot of meta information. They have given focus to accessibility controls and the site still looks great with CSS turned off.

7. They do a lot of great work in a variety of mediums.

One strike against them... The light gray type in some areas makes legibility a bit of work. Nice, solid addition to the Stylegala Gallery.

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There are 13 guest comments so far.

at 04:17 on 24 September 2005, Andy wrote:

Love the aesthetic, as I just personally like variations on gray. In fact I like a lot of things about this site. But I hate the awful scrolling behavior. C'est la vie. Good work from a design standpoint.

at 18:52 on 24 September 2005, Tom wrote:

Nice layout, the horizontal bar is a nice touch and holds it together. Navigation is good, with the tabs to take you back to section & move forward/back. I expected their main logo on the far left to do something but no....maybe it could be made less colorful and inviting to click!

Also on a personal note I think the type should be something other than Trebuchet, as it doesn't look all that professional - perhaps Verdana.

at 11:00 on 16 October 2005, martha wrote:

it is strange, that Andy dislikes the scrolling behavior - that´s the feature I like best about this website!

the website has a nice, open layout – and I am happy to see that the content is NOT centered like almost all other current websites...

at 14:05 on 26 October 2005, Pascal wrote:

Aside from the layout I have to comment on the scrolling behavior. Like with many fixed backgrounds the scrolling is tremendously slow in firefox. At least in my version on xp, firefox 1.0. Really something to look into as the scrolling makes this website very hard to navigate in Firefox.

at 09:54 on 02 November 2005, matthias wrote:

we never noticed any strange scrolling behavior with firefox 1.07 (neither on osx nor windows2000/xp)! we tested our website on a "real" 3 year old windows-xp laptop and on a virtual pc running windows 2000. the scrolling worked without any problems...

does anybody encounter similar problems like the ones Pascal mentioned above? if so, what version of firefox are you using?

thanks for all the feedback!

at 22:34 on 09 November 2005, Top Ten Webmaster wrote:

Sweet graphics. So sharp it made me feel like I was looking at an HDTV!

The greys washing out for me over eachother did not give a clear enough border though and I would suggest using at least a vexing corner in the faded areas to add some definition.

Nice job though.

at 17:24 on 12 December 2005, Maxime wrote:

The design seems very clear. I like the font and the gray colors choosed. But a negative point : I think it would be better if there were more colors, because some pages looks a little sad, maye a little more green, and a little orange.

Other positive points :

- I's cool to have an english version.

- the lines in the menu to indicate the location

- the naviation very simple

at 11:37 on 04 March 2006, ralf wrote:

I like this site. Clear structure and nice colors. Well done job.

at 15:04 on 04 March 2006, Grishan CMS Design wrote:

Yes, a clean and interresting design with smooth grafics

and a great portfolio. Especially the accessibility parts are exellent. Good work and thumbs up !

Regards from Grishan

at 17:02 on 18 August 2006, Matthias Edler-Golla wrote:

our website (wachenfeld-golla.de) just got showcased at http://accessites.org/ – it won a Quality Universal Design Award

at 21:17 on 29 August 2006, sega wrote:

i agree with you!

at 02:51 on 03 October 2006, seokatalog wrote:

Haughtiness layout, clear structure and nice touch and holds it together. Extra navigations. 5.9

at 00:00 on 30 November 2006, Steven wrote:

Something emtpy there, on the header and right side, you could fill out with graphics that empy part, or sketch the page up. The rest is ok

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