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web.burza - Superhero Edition

Current rating: 7.4 (216 votes)

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Added: 18 April 2005
Designer: Burza d.o.o.
Submitter: Vanja Bertalan

Review:

Well, if I didn't review this one, somebody would...

This site brings back some of the interactivity that has been missing as of late in our blog-laden industry. It use Flash wisely and with restraint.

And I think it is very attractive. It is just fun to look at. The level of detail will keep you engaged long enough to learn all you need to know about the company, and then some. They maybe went a little overboard with the hand-drawn arrows and footnotes, but it is not too bad...

The variation in content design from section to section is also very nice. It would be a shame for a site like this to fall into a rut once you got below the navbar level.

The code is well structured with a good separation of content and presentation. The Flash seems to degrade nicely into ordered lists if the user has Javascript turned off or no plugin installed (I didn't check it myself, but a study of the code is pretty self-explanatory).

And c'mon, ya gotta love those characters and the animations. They alone make this site worth the visit. Those Croatians know how to rock the new style.

Check it.

Reviewed by John Peele

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There are 82 guest comments so far.

at 09:19 on 18 April 2005, Alen Grakalic wrote:

Well deserved feature for my Croatian buddies :)

Thumbs up folks!

at 11:05 on 18 April 2005, mark rush wrote:

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE! at last somethign different!

Mark

at 11:46 on 18 April 2005, madeo wrote:

That is SOOOOOOO amazing!!! :-) great colors, great layout, superb flash ....

madeo

at 12:00 on 18 April 2005, steve wrote:

Wondered when this one would turn up, fantastic work! Cue intense jealousy!

at 14:38 on 18 April 2005, zach wrote:

I love how he incorporated the site navigation into Flash. Right-click in the header area... now that's cool.

at 15:06 on 18 April 2005, Malarkey wrote:

I don't often post any 'Woooaa, cool site' comments, but this one moved me enough to say, err "Woooaa, cool site!". I love it all-round.

at 17:13 on 18 April 2005, Colin McKinney wrote:

Really loved this site. The style and quality of the illustrations is just superb. Glad to see something different!

at 17:55 on 18 April 2005, Keith wrote:

Visually I really like this site. It's fun and colorful and unigue. But there is just too much going on to easily make heads or tails of it, at least for me. It's distracting and well, if you want to read or navigate you really have to be invested and concentrate.

But it is cool.

at 18:47 on 18 April 2005, kosta wrote:

What can I say... Magnificent.

We see a lot of clean, business oriented websites today (I love them myself), but this one just cheered me up. Especialy as I've been fan of their work for quite some time.

Bravo neighbours!

at 18:57 on 18 April 2005, josh wrote:

As a designer I loved it. As a user I was confused. I agree with Keith that it's very difficult to make sense of things right off the bat. Stylistically it's beautiful and it's definately something I haven't seen before, but I still have to ask myself "what's the point"? If the point is to clearly communicate "who they are" and "what they do" to potential clients I think it could be a bit confusing.

at 23:35 on 18 April 2005, Paul Seale wrote:

My ***.. its full of stars.

at 07:22 on 19 April 2005, excargot wrote:

it looks different, nice colored,original but difficult to read...

at 08:22 on 19 April 2005, Luke wrote:

I never comment on these, but this looked so repulsive I felt obligated to. I can't read a damn thing on it, everything's smooshed together, and the palette isn't quite right. The flash is very distracting-- everythign always moving doesn't guarantee the DYNAMISM we're looking for in design.

It's form over content, but both form and content are banal. The form keeps me from even caring about whatever this site is supposed to be all about. It needs redone totally. Yuck. I gave you a one, sorry, chief.

at 10:52 on 19 April 2005, Jason wrote:

Finally, something truely original.

at 13:37 on 19 April 2005, clifford wrote:

superb colors and characters! i just a little worried about those movements whenever i rollover on the next animated box. i felt a li'l drowned by too much animations. hmmnn, maybe it's okay since it's a superhero kind of a site. But it's clean and cool.

at 01:17 on 20 April 2005, Rob Weychert wrote:

The illustrations and color scheme are fantastic, and this site has a very fun personality, but the navigation really wants for hierarchy. Like said, I have to be really interested to do the amount of digging necessary to actually use the site.

However, I don’t think it would be too difficult to remedy this. Adjusting the main navigation a bit to make each button’s function more immediately apparent (bumping up the section title’s point size and/or having a uniform title position within the buttons) would be a big step in the right direction.

I love the look of the site, and I hope it can eventually function a little better without sacrificing its visual flavor. The work in the portfolio tells me these guys are definitely capable of it.

at 13:12 on 20 April 2005, Piero Fissore wrote:

Amazing!

at 17:42 on 20 April 2005, Andy Stones wrote:

Love This!

at 19:42 on 20 April 2005, emptyhead wrote:

Hi all!

For a start, it is an honor to be showcased on stylegala.

Thank you all for your comments and time. We appreciate it very much.

We considered and internally argued over some of your comments, so we made couple of minor changes.

@user josh:

We were doing a lot of portals lately, e-zines and corporate sites... and we are getting sick of that, more or less (at least us designers). We will not stop doing stuff like that, because we have to earn some cash so we can play quake in peace :).

With this design, we are trying to ehm… jump out of the box titled: “web.burza? Yeah, they're doing corporate stuff…”. We are in that box because nobody wants to pay us to do something different.

And besides that, this design is a true, honest and accurate representation of us (except that in real life we all have noses). :)

@rob:

Thx m8. Is this any clearer? :)

Cheers!

at 20:21 on 20 April 2005, Denis Radenkovic wrote:

I love it... sve pohvale!

at 03:30 on 21 April 2005, Rob Weychert wrote:

That is a bit clearer, Denis! I’m glad I could help. :)

at 03:33 on 21 April 2005, Rob Weychert wrote:

Oops, .

at 16:36 on 21 April 2005, John Oxton wrote:

I am trying my hardest not to like this, just out of sheer spite and jealousy, but it's not working. It's an amazing bit of work... gits!

at 08:39 on 22 April 2005, emptyhead wrote:

@rob: woohoo :)

@d&j: Oh! Our noses is now showing on radars how proud we are :).

Respect!

at 19:18 on 27 April 2005, Nick Rigby wrote:

Brilliant. Yes, I'm very jealous too!!

at 11:37 on 16 May 2005, Scott Mackenzie wrote:

OMG, this is so damn inspirational. Very very high quality work here. Visually stunning. Great job.

at 21:51 on 20 May 2005, Luka Cvrk wrote:

Very impressive!

at 01:57 on 03 June 2005, Ben wrote:

Wow! really inspiring : )

at 20:20 on 06 June 2005, sii wrote:

I agree totally with Luke. This website is impossible to look at, and the Flash is obnoxious.

at 12:03 on 20 June 2005, Pike wrote:

Nice to see you basking at the very top where you belong, guys... keep up the good work!

at 21:42 on 29 August 2005, björn wrote:

I like it alot...

at 19:06 on 02 September 2005, Aldo wrote:

Great inspiration for us poor fantasyless webmasters :)

But I still hate Flash.

Keep goin' on :)

Aldo

at 07:57 on 10 October 2005, A.T. wrote:

Cool & Inspiring. Good work :)

at 12:27 on 21 October 2005, Chris wrote:

WOW

at 22:45 on 09 November 2005, Top Ten Webmaster wrote:

By far one of the most original sites I have ever seen.

The feet coming out of the bottom staggered did it for me!

Great great work!

at 14:14 on 10 November 2005, DUI Defense Guy wrote:

I only wish I had the graphics talent your team does.

Keep up the good work supplying us all with visions to work from.

at 18:30 on 15 November 2005, Shane wrote:

I'm commenting on this site at quite a late stage, since quite a few people have already done so.

I think this site is great - whilst opinion may be divided about flash in general, I believe that this site uses it to great affect.

It's fantastic to see something different here - this, and it's polished graphical style must have something to do with the amount of comments

Great!

at 16:48 on 12 December 2005, David wrote:

Very cool. I love the robot.

at 12:42 on 05 January 2006, Marko wrote:

If you want to know more about the guys at web.burza here is their interview for mcville!

http://www.mcville.net/article/99/webburza-guys-interview

at 13:39 on 10 February 2006, Ruaridh Currie wrote:

gotta say, this site is super slick, very nice indeed

at 09:02 on 30 March 2006, Brock wrote:

You gotta looove the animations.

Every part has it's own little surprize, which makes this site worth visiting :)

at 00:23 on 10 April 2006, John wrote:

Great post!

at 00:16 on 27 May 2006, coyr wrote:

cool site, good design, and comic, ¿what can i said? amazing site, he he he, with cool stuff. Congratulations.

at 18:11 on 25 June 2006, Will wrote:

Were the illustrations entirely done in Flash or was there some Illustrator/Freehand usage as well?

at 00:59 on 27 June 2006, web tasarım wrote:

very Cool & Inspiring. thakns so much

at 00:15 on 12 July 2006, Shuki Haiminis wrote:

I liked it so much I want to get you guys to do some work for me now :)

at 10:12 on 29 July 2006, Profesyonel Eğitim wrote:

profesyonel eğitim, profesyonel egitim

at 17:04 on 10 August 2006, Erp Kurumsal Danışmanlık wrote:

erp kurumsal danışmanlık

at 21:58 on 15 August 2006, medyum wrote:

Great...

at 17:20 on 17 August 2006, seckin wrote:

a tutoring web site, özel ders

at 02:39 on 21 August 2006, Reisen wrote:

Really great design, but I would expect a comic and not a webdesign company. Colours are perfect combined and the flashs are funny.

at 17:54 on 01 September 2006, Hobbes wrote:

I have to agree with Reisen's comment. It's artistically beautiful, but if part of design is to match your purpose - then I don't think it works as well. I expect the site to be about a comic strip, not a webdesign company and it seems really cluttered. My first impression was one of confusion as to what I was looking at.

at 20:26 on 05 September 2006, unstructure wrote:

fun cute design ... not really things I would want from a web design company. Then again most of my clients are really cute or fun.

at 15:19 on 08 September 2006, Webkatalog wrote:

Is there a way to resize the background-image of an HTML element via CSS??

thanks

at 16:47 on 26 September 2006, zagadka wrote:

very good idea but without little "superheroes" the design would be only mediocre

at 18:55 on 06 October 2006, Webkatalog wrote:

This one is AWESOME!

at 22:37 on 10 October 2006, Artikelverzeichnis wrote:

Excellent Template!

at 23:10 on 12 October 2006, Webverzeichnis wrote:

Keep up the good work!

thanks,

Lars

at 11:54 on 26 October 2006, Tottigol wrote:

Amazing, keep goin on like that ... Greetz

at 12:25 on 27 October 2006, island-man wrote:

Well done ... - Congratulations!

at 20:47 on 29 October 2006, Reseller wrote:

Great design and funy flash!

at 22:13 on 04 November 2006, Kent wrote:

Well done, good design!

at 20:30 on 06 November 2006, milo wrote:

Croatians does it better.

at 11:02 on 07 November 2006, estate agency turkey wrote:

estate agency turkey

at 12:02 on 07 November 2006, estate agency turkey wrote:

beyaz eşya

at 02:01 on 08 November 2006, Franz Muster wrote:

Really great design - thanks!

at 02:05 on 08 November 2006, Marco Fedder wrote:

Great work I love it!

at 11:59 on 13 November 2006, kalibrasyon wrote:

kalibrasyon

at 09:40 on 14 November 2006, island wrote:

I like it, it's nice.

at 09:51 on 18 November 2006, ozelnakis wrote:

nakış, tekstil, textile, özel

at 12:43 on 20 November 2006, Ibal+ Buddha wrote:

I loved it. I agree totally with Luke. This website is impossible to look at.

at 13:39 on 22 November 2006, Jiraporn wrote:

Excellent Template and very good site!

Thanks for looking

at 21:53 on 26 November 2006, Webkatalog wrote:

Just can say... Great!

at 07:43 on 30 November 2006, dabbes wrote:

the template are excellent, thank you!

at 19:49 on 02 December 2006, Webdesign Firma wrote:

"...Really great design, but I would expect a comic and not a webdesign company..." - is really so :) The rest is great, congratulations!

at 06:05 on 04 December 2006, Bannerdesign wrote:

Very nice to see you basking at the very top where you belong, guys. keep up the good work!

at 06:07 on 04 December 2006, Skateboard wrote:

a very cool site, good design, and comic, what can i said? amazing site with a lot of stuff. Congratulations.

at 06:08 on 04 December 2006, Versicherung wrote:

Good to see you basking at the very top where you belong, guys... so keep up the good work!

at 06:09 on 04 December 2006, Manga wrote:

I only wish I had the graphics talent your team does have.

Keep up the good work supplying us all with visions to work from in future.

at 06:18 on 04 December 2006, lanasan wrote:

A new kind of safari - but who says a safari in the web is not exiting too?

at 13:01 on 07 December 2006, SEO Schamane wrote:

Well done, looks really great, congratulations! We'r waiting for continuations!

at 23:48 on 07 December 2006, Webkatalog wrote:

Just can say... Great :)

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