Comments on: Best designed website? http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/ David is a graphic designer passionate about brand identity. Here's his portfolio and a wonderful community of 15,000+ designers reading his blog. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:03:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Oriana http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-112849 Oriana Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:03:23 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-112849 Thanks for making this post, I found it useful. I wish I could design flash like that on my budget. I actually am not a huge fan of flash though, because it loads so slowly. Without it, though, there are always browser complications. I haven't used IE since Chrome came out, and since switching to Linux I've been using Firefox. With the right plugins (and hardware or OS for firefox) (^.^" ) they work so much better than IE and Safari... I will never switch back. An interesting thing I found about IE and Firefox is that they inserted empty space between the cells of my page's tables, which made a table-based image look sloppy at best. I have to completely remake my site anyway, since it is sorta web 2.0. Most of my problem is that it's all hand-coded and I never did get help for it. My problem is that I'm not advertising or trying to distribute anything, it's just supposed to be a site that links my accounts (dA, Myspace, blogger, YouTube, etc) and has a little blurb about me on it, just a little one-page deal. And I'm having the hardest time coming up with ideas for it! ^.^" Thanks for making this post, I found it useful. I wish I could design flash like that on my budget.

I actually am not a huge fan of flash though, because it loads so slowly. Without it, though, there are always browser complications. I haven’t used IE since Chrome came out, and since switching to Linux I’ve been using Firefox. With the right plugins (and hardware or OS for firefox) (^.^” ) they work so much better than IE and Safari… I will never switch back.

An interesting thing I found about IE and Firefox is that they inserted empty space between the cells of my page’s tables, which made a table-based image look sloppy at best. I have to completely remake my site anyway, since it is sorta web 2.0. Most of my problem is that it’s all hand-coded and I never did get help for it.

My problem is that I’m not advertising or trying to distribute anything, it’s just supposed to be a site that links my accounts (dA, Myspace, blogger, YouTube, etc) and has a little blurb about me on it, just a little one-page deal. And I’m having the hardest time coming up with ideas for it! ^.^”

]]> By: David Airey http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-93945 David Airey Thu, 15 May 2008 13:06:10 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-93945 It's nice, Tom. No doubt. Of course the great photography helps too. It’s nice, Tom. No doubt. Of course the great photography helps too.

]]> By: Tom Johnson http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-93943 Tom Johnson Thu, 15 May 2008 12:50:26 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-93943 http://www.mattphotographs.com/ This site is for a graphic designer turned food photographer. It is VERY clean and robust. It also has contact info and I am thinking about doing this for my portfolio site now that I have won some awards. And why is it that photographers have the coolest sites? http://www.mattphotographs.com/

This site is for a graphic designer turned food photographer. It is VERY clean and robust. It also has contact info and I am thinking about doing this for my portfolio site now that I have won some awards.

And why is it that photographers have the coolest sites?

]]> By: David Airey http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1305 David Airey Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:59:36 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-1305 Thanks for stopping by <b>Jonathan</b>. I'll send you a short email as I'm interested to know how user-friendly a Flash CMS actually is, and what capabilities can be incorporated. Thanks for stopping by Jonathan.

I’ll send you a short email as I’m interested to know how user-friendly a Flash CMS actually is, and what capabilities can be incorporated.

]]> By: Jonathan Markoff http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1304 Jonathan Markoff Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:31:16 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-1304 David, I found a link to your site and wanted to touch base. It turns out that I'm part of the team that built the back end functionality for Leo Burnett as the system is powered by our content management system. We've been quite busy recently so we haven't had time to delve into our own site but that will be forthcoming over the next little while. the core offering of our firm is a CMS for flash and rich media and we use the burnett site as a showcase due to the global recognition it achieved. I'll be out of the office for the next little while on a business trip but feel free to touch base if you have any questions and I'll be more than happy to fill you in on details. Regards, Jonathan David,

I found a link to your site and wanted to touch base. It turns out that I’m part of the team that built the back end functionality for Leo Burnett as the system is powered by our content management system. We’ve been quite busy recently so we haven’t had time to delve into our own site but that will be forthcoming over the next little while. the core offering of our firm is a CMS for flash and rich media and we use the burnett site as a showcase due to the global recognition it achieved.

I’ll be out of the office for the next little while on a business trip but feel free to touch base if you have any questions and I’ll be more than happy to fill you in on details.

Regards,

Jonathan

]]> By: lakshmi http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1118 lakshmi Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:38:53 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-1118 David! You do get around. Very interesting. Reminds me of the mouse trail script we first learned in C, with fractal like connectors instead of straight lines. I totally agree with Mark Wilson's comment though. Lots of "Flash" is there content? David! You do get around. Very interesting. Reminds me of the mouse trail script we first learned in C, with fractal like connectors instead of straight lines. I totally agree with Mark Wilson’s comment though. Lots of “Flash” is there content?

]]> By: julia huntsman http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1093 julia huntsman Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:56:28 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-1093 When I go to a site I want to get straight to message-- for instance, if it's cluttered up with Adsense ads, I lose interest and leave quickly because I can't find the purpose in the site. You don't want to spend time trying to figure out the site. When I go to a site I want to get straight to message– for instance, if it’s cluttered up with Adsense ads, I lose interest and leave quickly because I can’t find the purpose in the site. You don’t want to spend time trying to figure out the site.

]]> By: Pinksy http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 Pinksy Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:01:59 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-1091 Yeah, I found that strange too. Anyone that knows anything about the web would surely not advertise IE, unless they use IE dependant code... Yeah, I found that strange too. Anyone that knows anything about the web would surely not advertise IE, unless they use IE dependant code…

]]> By: David Airey http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1090 David Airey Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:53:27 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-1090 Hey <b>Pinksy</b>, that Marston Hotels site does seem well constructed and user-friendly. The rotating flash images are obviously professionally taken too. What I thought strange about it was how the designers chose to put a link at the foot of each page saying 'Get Internet Explorer'. Why do you think someone would do that? If a person is viewing the site on a PC, then by default they'll be using IE. If they're on a mac then they'll be using Safari, which in my opinion is better than IE anyway. Hey Pinksy, that Marston Hotels site does seem well constructed and user-friendly. The rotating flash images are obviously professionally taken too.

What I thought strange about it was how the designers chose to put a link at the foot of each page saying ‘Get Internet Explorer’. Why do you think someone would do that?

If a person is viewing the site on a PC, then by default they’ll be using IE. If they’re on a mac then they’ll be using Safari, which in my opinion is better than IE anyway.

]]> By: Jason Drohn http://www.davidairey.com/best-designed-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 Jason Drohn Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:54:19 +0000 http://www.davidairey.com/blog/best-designed-website/#comment-1089 Wow.. Great find there.. Wow.. Great find there..

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