Mountain of Code

This is the Mountain Dew mobile site.  It is very very interesting. All the information on the site is on the home screen and the navigation is actually a filter system. So, everything starts checked and you un-check the filters you don't want to see. Then when you click a link, the information slides over to reveal the new information. It is all very interactive and full of java script. I wouldn't even want to imagine the code on this thing.  It's very impressive but it is kind of annoying.  It took me 2 minutes just to figure out what was going on just because it is so unorthodox. It's interesting, and it works, but it is just a little over the top.

Mediocre Coke Mobile site

This is the mobile site for my coke rewards. Honestly, it's not very good. It just looks very outdated. The images, the logo and the navigation buttons are very pixely and blurry, which is a rookie mistake you would not expect out of such a good company. it doesn't navigate well, and when you were on the sub pages the navigation at the bottom of the screen changes two different options so you have to go back to the homepage to see the original navigation menu.The main links that you use most often are just little text links and they're very hard to click on. It just doesn't look modern and it is not easy to use.

Successful Pizza Hut site

This isthe mobile website for Pizza Hut. I love the homepage. The main navigation buttons are simple and sleek and the slide out menu button in the header is very user friendly. I love the simple black to grey gradient in the background. I think the small pizza Hut logo in the top rounds it all together. Also the sub pages have clean typography and are laid out perfectly. Easy to navigate, aesthetically pleasing and very useful. Great mobile site.

Grey Goose vodka

This is the mobile website for Grey Goose vodka. It is interesting. Typography and the organization of the information is fantastic. But I just do not like the setup and the layout of the page. When you press the menu button in the header it brings you down to the very bottom of the page which is where the navigation is. Therefore if you hit the menu button it takes you down about 5000 pixels to where the navigation is. Then you have to scroll all the way back up to see the beginning of the information. It's just silly and needless. just wish there were less information on each page and navigation was on a separate page.

Colorado mobile site

this one is the state site for Colorado. Navigation is kind of cool. You press the menu button in the top corner in the nav drops down to cover the whole page, and I like the font variation in the links. each of the subpages are pretty similar. They have a title a brief description and several picture style links. It's very simple, but I like the color scheme, the legibility, and the overall look.  It is very successful in providing the user with popular activities within the state. 

threeshire inn's giant nav

This is a mobile site for the threeshires inn. I'm not the biggest fan. The sub pages are very text heavy which is never good. I don't think any customer is going to read all the information. The home page is pretty cool. this site is set up with a giant navigation that takes up the whole page on every page and you have to scroll down several page links to see the rest of the information. Its somewhat interesting but it is not a user friendly design.

Lubbock texas

This is the Lubbock, Texas town web site. I love it. The big photo on the home page just screams hometown Texas. The simple navigation logos are very friendly to the eye. Then when you go to the sub pages the navigation drops down to a nav bar at the bottom. Works great which is the most important, but it also looks really good. Makes me want to visit Lubbock Texas.

Great functionality, but ugly!

This is from intangible.com, a well rounded graphic designer and web designer. I don't mind the homepage so much. The illustration and the navigation is pretty cool and unique, but the typography and the spacing on the other pages is god awful. The serif fonts with the opac drop shadow he is so ugly and so hard to read. It sucks that this designer has such a poorly designed site because the sites functionality is excellent. It is soon as well and the navigation is great but the overall design is just very off putting.

14four.com good idea, but broken

this screenshot is from 14four.com, which their mobile site is so broken I don't even know what they do. The image above is their "work" page. it looks like there is a background photo and then A scrolling block style that displays their work. But, as soon as the page open it kicked the images off the side of the screen and you can't zoom or scroll to the side so the user is stuck looking at half of their images. Which is a shame because it looked like a cool design and I love the color scheme and the navigation is beautiful but I cannot see their work or their information. Therefore I will move on to a different company and they would have just lost a customer.

style.com pinch to zoom

This is a nother post about style.com. This image is from there Gallery. It uses a cool feature that some of us take for granted where you can pinch and squeeze to zoom in and out. Again it is a simple concept but it is extremely user-friendly and nessessary when you are displaying images and clothing. This way, users can zoom in to get a closer look at specific items. But, because this action uses a good amount of processing power,the sites php is set up so only devices with a high resolution, and high processor can use this function. therefore this awesome feature is available for phones that can use it but it won't break the site on older phones.

style.com double carousel

I love this design concept and would love to know how it is done. On Style.com they use a double carousel on their events page to help you scroll through events and dates. Its roles extremely well and is very user friendly. Simple but cool which is exactly what you want on a mobile website.

Nishimoto Trading Co.

So I think this is the website for the company that makes delicious Japanese soda that I had in Japan at Epcot in Disneyworld. But anyhow, this site is so clean! It is very simple but I like it a lot. Very clean, simple, organized, and the color scheme is great. It seems like it is from a template or something, but it isn't terrible.

Coca-Cola

I figured since this is a drink we are designing for, I should look at the world's biggest drink company. Coke! I love Coke, but their site is like Pepsi quality, it's got some good stuff, and I'll take it if its all you got, but its not great. The main part of the home page is the scrolling photos at the top, but as you can see it doesn't work well. Let me just list my complaints; The nav is weird and way too empty in the middle, the slideshow has like a 20 second glitch in between the photos, their is a weird empty area on the right and bottom left of the body, and the logos at the bottom are not centered. Its several rookie mistakes that I would make, not Coca Cola. And what the heck is with the footer? What are the conversation/carrot boxes pointing towards. Their is no need at all for the carrots at the top of those buttons. Its just weak, disappointingly weak.

Florida State Gators Aid

This is the home page for the almighty Gatorade. This company is so big that Blogger spell check even has Gatorade in it; and the website shows that. I think it is very strong. It is designed perfectly for the market. The site is clean, but very bold and powerful. Notice the slightly serif fonts to add more weight, but it isn't too much. Simple navigation, large powerful photo slideshow to draw attention and then just the necessary information, in a clean and sleek layout.  No real complaints here. Well done.

5-Hour Energy

This is the website for 5-Hour Energy, and as you can tell, it is marketing the exact opposite type of person as the Monster site. This one is white and pure, clean, skinny, and my informational. I don't like that the about page is the home page, but it isn't terrible. It is too wordy for a home page but it is clean. However it just seems to be lacking a visual spark to keep me interested. I just does not keep my attention very well.  The simple nav is okay, but again nothing of note. Just decent, I would expect more from such a well advertised company.

Monster Energy

 

Since this is an energy drink company we are making a website for I figured I should check out the competition. This is Monster's website and I think it is the best of any drink site I have look at. The site is designed perfectly for the market they attract. It is hard edged, intents, dark, and gritty. I love the logo and simple navigation, and the sub-navigation at the bottom of the page is perfect to keep the home page nice and organized. There is a lot of information, but it is put together and organized very well. Also, the gritty background image in the wrapper is fantastic. Great site.

Unique wedding photography site

I like this set up. Its very unique. Throughout the site the is no real navigation bar, which i am not usually a fan of, but here it still works. There is just a menu button on the side, which brings out the navigation options; something you normally see on mobile sites. On the home page the little symbols are the buttons, and the site has a nice fluid transition instead of just popping into the sub-pages, which is a nice change. Overall i think its pretty successful. The picture slideshows are very responsive and fluid and the hidden navigation is a unique change. "Deleted Space Creative" is the designer of this site.

Catch seafood website

I love this design. I've always been a huge fan of the "power photo", and this site is perfect for that. The simple, san-serif text on each image and the humorous continuity makes this site extremely successful to me. The nav is simple, but strong, and the link organization is... well organized. And now i reeeally need some seafood, which means this site did its job.

David Barton Gym

I love this. Its such a unique spin on the average gym website. It's like a bad ass gym for punks. So much negative space, plus the hardcore background, plus the iron and riveted text boxes all work so well together. The links need to be rearranged to be a bit more visually appealing, but overall it is a great, unique idea.

Mavric website

This is a great web design. A powerful image draws you in, and the well-organized links allow you to find whatever you are looking for on the site. Plus the use of large links and minimal text make the home page flow very nicely. Well done.

Tatte Bakery site

Beautiful web design. It is so simple, yet very elegant and precise. A simple header with a huge emphasis on the food and the shop, which is what a bakery should emphasize. It is fluid and organized very well... and it makes me hungry.

Emmy website

Not the best web page layout. Way too much information on the home page. My attention is totally lost by the time i get to the bottom of the page. Needs to be better organized.  I understand that it is a news/celeb website but it should still be able to keep my interest and the home page should be much less cluttered

Drybar website

Very interactive web design. Almost futuristic in the way the links and slices move when you hover over them. Also a good, modern color scheme and great use of space. I've never seen anything like it really.  Its all pictures and symbols, yet i know what is going on.  There is now need for words in web design if the design is strong enough, and here it definitely is.

 

Model's Website

very unique web design. The most noticeable feature is the way the site scrolls. The background and foreground scroll up and down, but the photo of Michelle stays in the same spot. Very interesting, but also somewhat confusing to the eye. Good? Bad? I'm not quite sure.  I do like the way the information is layed out though.  Its very bubbly and sexy which is, i think, what the designer was going for. Cool idea.  No idea how it could be done.  But its cool.

Speaker website

The use of big, dramatic photos and clean sleek text makes this design very stylish and young. I love it, to be quite honest. Plus, the lack of color actually adds to the sharpness of the design. Also the seamless divs with the slight white gradients are in perfect use here. Very well done.

Cavalier

This is a strange one, but its good? maybe? The navigation and secondary nav are confusing because the main nav is split up. I love all the elements in the bottom half because they are oddly sized but they still all geometrically fit together, but are they links or buttons or are they just for looks? I certainly can't tell.

Wedding dress website

Really creative website layout. Love the multiple tiles that create one big image, but are all different links. A nice, unique, modern twist to a wedding dress website. Easy on the eye, and very easy to navigate. It is a great way to draw in a younger, modern audience.

 

Lomo website

A fairly decent web design. I think to is definitely attracting the right audience with a modern, and informative layout. But, the layout is a bit wordy for a home page. A little too much paragraphing and text for my liking. However, the font choice and diagonal lines are very modern and attractive. 

Simple and Sleek. The name of the game

Another simple, but beautiful webpage. Showcases the photographers artwork in a stylish and sleek way. A simple drop down, a simple photo, and a powerful statement makes a brilliant website.Plus, the strange diagonal line and the banner are very unique, but it's definitely not bad.  I like it!

Example of KISS

This design is great. If you have a company that promotes web and game design you need to have a well-designed website, and this company does. Simple and fairly common, but its sleek and organized, while still giving the main information needed. After all, KISS is a rule to live by in web design, right? This site puts that rule into good practice here.

Gold's gym cluttered website

 I really am not a fan of this one. It is very cluttered and messy. Their is no direction or visual guidance whatsoever. I immediately got lost and did not know were to look. After you take a second to breath, the navigation is good and the way the logo extends past the web site border is great and unique, but the good is hidden behind the sites clutter and awful photos.

Modern photo based design

This is a great site. The definition of positive and negative space in the photos, and the website are great. It is very modern and “cool.” It really pulls you in with its navigation and its great powerful design. Very well done.

Magpie Food chalkboard design

I love this design! Its very unique, but so effective. The blackboard background and the chalk-like handwritten font is perfect. I love the lacey logo and the placement of the navigation bar and the secondary nav actually works pretty well here. Then, the photo of the pie tells how delicious their food is. Nice site.  The on thing i do not like is the different sized fonts and different placement of the text in the navigation. The nav should be uniform.