Time for some Friday fun. Being super busy with 9rules and Fine Fools I haven’t had time to patrol the CSS galleries to see what are the hot new designs out there. Maybe you could help me out. What are the hottest new designs that you have seen in the last couple of months?
As of right now I am feeling:
I’m sure there are more but those are just off the top of my head.
Although it is a bit different than the two that you posted (it’s not a blog), I have been digging the design of Emotions by Mike.
Hmmm…
http://www.ripleybaptisttemple.org
http://www.williamstewart.org
http://www.elsewares.com
http://www.elsewares.com
Totally non-standards (and in Russian), but incredible anyway: http://www.vozduh.ru.
Vivified is nicely done.
I totally dig Pixeldiva.
It’s so classy and yet totally different from all current design trends. It features unmatched integration of photoblog and normal blog.
I too am lovin’ the Smith ‘Black’ (orderedlist.com). Just let’s you know that shades of grey can still look good.
I really dig the redesign of thefwa.com (Favourite Website Awards) It resembles (to me anyway) a flash version of StyleGala.
It’s a 3 column liquid layout in Flash too, smartly designed and minimal looking.
all flash, but very nice – barbarian group
TextDrive just did a nice redo
Shaun Inman’s stuff is nice too
Does it have to be a blog? I was just visiting here yesterday listening to xmas podcasts and surfing the forum…. rest of site’s good too.
http://www.alexborstein.com/
Love the clean design in that one Mark.
Totally biased, but I like the simple design of my products website: http://www.userscape.com/products/helpspot/
Not as flashy as some but very easy to use, which is key when you’re actually trying to sell a product.
I just finished my design, you may want to take a look. It’s clean, white and very simple.
http://www.emaginacion.com.ar/cym/
Some people aren’t sure about the buttons, but they look great to me!
Update: I forgot this one: http://www.37signals.com/svn/ it’s a great desing. I like it alot! simple, plain, not too much colors and yet, it’s powerful. I’m inloved with that design!
Hope some day I can pull something like that off! because it’s just simple!
Thanks Scrivs! It was actually Whitespace inspired. I’m sure that has some subconscious bearing on your reasoning ;-).
Well this on is in Portuguese but it’s a friend’s weblog using flash+php very nice design
http://www.ilovedzn.com
but I think you got it covered
We’ve just revamped our company website in Drupal: http//www.okcomputer.co.nz
Kate did the graphic design and I did the css/xhtml
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com is good for me.
Fruitcast, of course!
Made this for my woman.
Great choices. I’d like to sing some praises for Ordered List’s WordPress plugin (Tiger Admin).
check out spreeblick, one of the most popular blogs here in germany. they did a ALA mutation.
also totally biased here, but FreshArrival is pretty freaking sweet.
9rules.com? ;)
http://designcollector.ru/
http://www.ageofweb.ru/front/index.cgi?action=show_works
I also love the design of Say-So
Most definitely http://deldindesign.com.
(OK, so it’s still in shambles after the custom php to textpattern conversion…)
Quit with the Shameless plugs of your own web sites.
On a different note… I like the design of http://www.advantageconsultingservices.com. It’s very clean and simple… good color choices as well.
I recently finished building this for a designer, I thought it looked pretty cool.
http://www.hyperhappen.com
I just finished a few days ago my company website. Check it out: http://www.qdesign.ro
I think is nice :)
When you pimp your own sites (9rules) you sound like a Sony exec saying he/she viewed all the latest mp3 players out there in the market and the only ones of interest are the Sony ones.
I know you shooting for that whole viral marketing deal, but you need to hide it better than this. This just screams “My little club is the coooooolest, nanananananana”.
At least disclose which links are 9rules, the same way all BIG companies do (CNN.com when referencing any other Time Warner company and Slashdot when referencing any other company under the OSTG umbrella).
I thought me mentioning that I haven’t found the time to go around to the galleries was hints enough that the only sites I am aware of now are 9r member sites. If our big thing was only letting in pretty design sites then sure I would disclose that fact, otherwise no need on my part. However, I will try better in the future.
Shemeless plug… Just finished the re-design on my personal site PushStop.com.
Here is an interesting WordPress site with a fluid, three-column, triple-loop, strict-XHTML design that looks clean and neat and makes me blush (a little):
Perishable Press
What do you think about Vivabit? http://www.vivabit.co.uk/
I won’t self promote ;) …
But I agree with thefwa.com, that’s a nice site. I love the dock hide feature as well. I’m not a fan of total Flash sites.. and the hard to read font on the right side is the main reason.
I like the simple slight designs like my site, plus
http://www.techcrunch.com
http://avalonstar.com/
Really nice and good site http://www.ilovedzn.com/ But other posteted sites also were good.
http://www.coudal.com
Excellent example of simple deign and good content combined…what every boy wants
Of course, I love my baby: FreshArrival
I would feel real bad if I didn’t add DeepBlue to this list. Very nice design, makes me feel at home on his page.
the later ones that I noticed in the galeries,
http://www.strit.de/
http://penandthink.com/
Although, I believe that most of showcase sites are a bit out of focus, the quantity seems to get in the way of quality, a lot.
the second one has been around for a while now, although it has recently been reentered.
The fact that I mentioned only 2 sites says it all.
Somebody kill Richard.