Best/Worst of Web Design
This weeks project for Ira’s class is finding the best and worst examples of web design. Here are mine.
WORST
http://www.shayesaintjohn.com/
This is website for an independent filmmaker or I guess you could say “video artist”. I found it quite a while ago during my late night internet surfing. I think there was an actual intent to make the site absolutely hideous, because the video art this guy makes are not only crazy but look as though they were produced in the early 90’s which is not actually the case here. I think this is a great example of bad web design for many reasons. The first of which, and probably the most important being there is no layout to the site. The front page is static with ugly serif and sans serif default fonts, all underlinded with a random mix of capitalization and a horrible looping of audio. The colours are puke-tacular, black background with bright lettering makes my eyes bleed. The website has no flow, you click a link and get lost in a maze of different links going to random pages with no clear path, the only way to get back to the homepage is the back button in your browser. After entering the site the horrid gifs and random noise is enough to give anyone a migraine. Therefore : WORST!!!
BEST
I stumble upon this website quite recently and immediately thought it could be categorized as the best in web design. The simplicity of the site is what really gets me. It loads quickly, isn’t overwhelming and gets its message out in a clear manner. It only uses one MAYBE two beautiful sans-serif type through out the web site and flows easily with a green colour scheme. The menu is easy to follow and well organized. Really there isn’t much to say about this website other then it kicks ass. A beautiful example of 21st century web design, and seriously the “don’t click” concept is awesome. I found myself trying to click a couple times to navigate through the site.
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