I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Lucy Blackmore.
Lucy is an artist and crafty person living in the Harrogate UK. Her site is a blog and it’s designed in way that lets you know exactly what she’s in to.
The site really shows off her paintings well, which is exactly what it’s purpose is. There are only a couple of links to her site pages and they stand out right at the top. I also like the date and comment tags that look like tabs on the sides, a very nice touch.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Alternative Designs.
This site is very easy to look at and use. There is plenty of whitespace to let the important aspects stand out. I must admit that I would prefer a darker text color. Many designers these days care more about how the page looks rather than how easy it actually is to read. It’s a fine line to walk, but I prefer to weight readability heavier.
Overall this site is simple, easy to use and looks like fun. Exactly what you want in a site selling playground equipment.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Living Bird.
This site is all about birds. You can see that even from my thumbnail. The navigation is clear, easy to find and use.
The large photo of the bird is the primary focus and the site is done in earth tones which fits the theme very well.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Freelance illustrator Richard Deverell.
This site is about as simple a look as you can get. Simple header, plain and clear navigation and black text on a white background.
What I like best about this site is that nothing on the page distracts from a great example of the artist’s work.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Walters & Walters North Carolina Wedding Photographers.
When I first looked at this site I thought here is the kind of site where all you really need for human visitors are slideshows that showcase great work. It’s really some of the nicest wedding photography that I’ve seen. The site has good clear navigation right at the top and a place to sign up for their newsletter right on the first page.
This is a case where having a blog should provide plenty of “spider food” for the search engines to read even though it’s not on your main pages. Written content can be on any page provided that the site’s navigation is designed so that your visitors can easily find their way to the rest of your pages once they’re in.
When I clicked on the blog there was plenty of written content and more great photos, but I saw two problems. The blog wasn’t on their domain and likely because of that it didn’t look like the rest of the site.
Here’s a site that is beautiful to look at, but needs written words for the search engines to read. They do have plenty of words, but it’s posted on the WordPress site not their own. I believe that by combining them they could turn two really good sites into a great one.
They could also post their newsletters on their site to preview for their potential subscribers and for more content. I like to see the kind of thing that I’ll be getting before I subscribe to any newsletter, but overall this site is well worth seeing.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Legendary Aircraft.
Another site that looks just like what it about. It’s clean looking and easy to read and you have to know that it’s about old airplanes even if you couldn’t read the words. This site also has a very nice photo gallery.
A couple of small things that I don’t like, I have said before that if you are going to have a copyright date on your pages you need to keep it current or just get rid of the date. Also I don’t like having a navigation link to the current page. There should be a way to let visitors know what page that they are on.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Tischlerei Klehn.
I think that you can tell that this site is for a carpentry, woodworking, construction company even if you can’t read the words.
I like the pencil on the notepad for navigation and the gallery of their work right up front.
The only thing that I’m not crazy about is the tan text on the brown background. It’s a bit hard to read.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Sign Solutions Services.
I am not normally a fan of black backgrounds because I think they usually look so 1996 and is a bit hard on the eyes. Modern designs have more white and rounded corners, but this site seems to make it work very well.
It may be that the slideshow right at the top of the first page gives it a more modern look. Flash used for the slideshow is not used for navigation. It’s in plain text which is best for SEO.
This site looks very nice. It tells you right away what they do and how they do it. Simple and elegant.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Tennessee Winter.
I probably should have written about this site earlier but now that winter is over I can look at the snow as a beautiful thing. It’s just hard to do that when you’re shoveling it.
This site looks like a winter wonderland. I even like the moving snowflakes script. It adds to the effect of the site and since it not used for something critical like navigation it won’t be missed even if the visitor has JavaScript turned off.
All of the navigation is in plain text with the main navigation right at the top. The current events are on both sides of the content in two different formats (text and calendar) so they won’t be missed.
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I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they all look good and are clear and easy to use. The graphics are good, but not overpowering. Sometimes I just like a picture or the name. Some of the sites are not in English and I still know what they are about.
The newest one is called Sheridan Oregon.
This is a site about, well, Sheridan Oregon. You can easily tell from the site that this is an area that features wine, lumber, wide open spaces and easy living. The purple and tan (colors that I use myself) are easy on the eyes. They are colors that goes well with the grapes that are their feature product.
The navigation and content is in plain text. The navigation is right at the top of the page in plain sight, but the font could be bigger without hurting the look of the site.
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