Stream of consciousness ahoy. It's 2010 and time to overhaul this half-finished website, so I'm trying to work out exactly what I want to do with it. I don't spend a lot of time blogging so much these days so I should tuck that in the back somewhere behind a splash page or some such, while I tweet a fair bit so that should be brought in front-and-centre. It needs a combined cv / portfolio area too, instead of having that separate.
Anyways that sort of stuff is relatively simple, what's trickier is what I want it to look like. A palette of red, white black and grey is a given, because, well, it's my site and I like those colours. But beyond that, it has to be SNAZZY! (But doable.) I've been looking through blogs and web pages that are ostensibly nifty looking for something along the right lines. Here's a few that I thought were Plus Nift. I was just bookmarking them til I thought it'd be useful to note down why
- denisechandler Love the header, the wacky bees and the menu reaching over to the side of the page. Simplt but really impactful. Is that a word? Oh sod it.
- sursly.com Ok, this looks like nothing, til you click a link and you're all like WOAH WHAT JUST HAPPENED. Hiding the scroll an putting a bunch of stark graphics between the "pages" is fully nift.
- mikeambs.com Very simple. I like minimalist stuff and this is that. Similarly blog.squarespace.com, I've seen the little marks on the edges like that in a few places now and it's a nice touch. I'm sure there's a better word for it but hey.
- jeffsarmiento.com Wee details are also good though, and this has loads of that. I particularly like how the secondary column feels undeniably secondary.
- colly.com Probably represents the my idea in webdesign. I'm not aiming anywhere near that high, to be honest, but it's good to keep a benchmark of awesome in the back of your mind.
- northtemple Love the NORTH widget thingy. Awesomesauce.
- urbanlandscapelab Minimal colours, nice use of negative space, love the header/footer and the bright green blip when you click a link. Nice.
- matthamm Textured background vs flat foreground + slight bevel = subtle text that pops sufficiently anyways.
With any luck I'll add some more sites/ideas/etc here. Woop!