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August 23, 2005
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Nice Design
Nice Designs is nice! (Yes I am aware of how lame that was.) It is a design which is a mixture of a big noticeable header, unique and easy-to-use [tag]tabbed menu[/tag], the [tag]Fixed Position[/tag] property which degrades nicely in those browser who do not accept it, and of course bold colors.
I think what this design did was make it so the user focuses on what they want you to, which is important for any [tag]website design company[/tag]. The header is fixed so you’re almost brainwashed into remembering the name. Along side with the content section where the pink yells out and grabs your attention every time you scroll down.
Yes it is a Nice Design. However, I think it is more than just another good looking design — it is a smart one as well. The layout fits its purpose and does it in an intelligent manner.
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Nice indeed, but the left sidebar gets cut off, even at 1024*768 resolution. Sigh.
I love the choice of colors. The sidebar issue seems to be fixed now.
Why is the graphic in the upper right corner cut off? Is it intentional? Looks like a mistake.
It’s not a mistake, but you’re right: it does look like one. I like the design a lot. I think the z-index use is really well done, and the colors seem to teeter between trite and curious, which I think it a good thing.
The most significant thing I dislike is the size proportions. The window that shows the main content is too small for two projects to be displayed, but bigger than one (1024×768). A better implementation would have been either making it bigger or having an AJAX-ish scroll through projects button.
It’s like washing powder or soap packaging. Like many other sites nowadays.
And this statement: “We specialise in clarity”. May be it’s intentional to make me think of soap
Personally, I think it’s nice design… yeah!
I really like the use of the background image to ’solve the fixed positioning in IE. The way the image is fixed to replicate the way it ’should’ be is a nice touch.
There are a few coding/graphical issues that stand out to me though.
(IE vs. Moz)
1) the #maincol is cut off in IE6. the line
p class=”intro” More details about each of the recent projects in our portfolio
will follow shortly./p
gets clipped by the header image.
(general)
2) some of the ‘thumbnail’ images on the main page could use a little nursing.
2.a) Cherry Hinton
2.b) Sal Jefferies Photography
2.c) Britannia Music
2.d) Jo Webster Properties
look at the top right corners of these images and you’ll notice a little uncut portion.
I know it’s nit picky, but the cleanliness of the site doesn’t deserve those little easily overlooked mistakes to bring it down.
3) The top of the paperclip in the logo is real pixelated. Stands out connected to the bottom portion.
4) Something that bugs me is the navigation. The tabbed thing looks nice but when you scroll the page up so that an image butts up to the tabs, the teal with the 1px grey bottom looks out of place. Might just be me.
5) the teal text “More details about each of the recent projects in our portfolio will follow shortly.” is hard to read on the white background. Granted it’s not supposed to stand out too much but…
6) The whole ‘letting things slide off the page thing’ I like. There just doesn’t seem to enough of it to solidify it’s effect. Since the navigation is ala ’sliding doors’ maybe a litlle more of the effect could be applied to the nav to simulate the effect and making it more concrete showing that that was what they were going for with it.
As this is my first post on one of these types of review sites there obviously must have been something that attracted me to the site. All in all I like the effect they have going on. It’s just some of the small ‘ifs’ that get me.