Steering clear of the usual tradition established around these parts of introductory showcase paragraphs demanding no excessive attention be paid to them (though happily this has been somewhat compensated for with excessively long and punctuation-free clauses), the weekly Design Bites series on this site will from this point on become a fortnightly affair.
Coupled with a culling of each site’s expert overviews (shiny!), think of it as either a concentrated effort to concentrate the quality of each site presented, or a re-realisation that one’s or anyone’s opinion on admirable site design holds as much weight online as the hybrid of a YouTube and Myspace comment does in a post-doctorate thesis.
5. Easily Amused – Banner
A luscious watercolour effect utilising a beautiful shade of aqua.
4. Maikel Neris – RSS icon
Wonderful tattered née grunge effect, blending very well into the tiled wooden background while still standing out.
3. Adit Shukla – Header/Sidebar
Very original, and wonderfully presented.
2. Orange Coat – Logo
Cute imagery which fits in very well with the site’s slogan and overall theme. A clever hover effect, too.
1. Nofrks – Navigation
Not even addressing the pleasing graphics decorating the Nofrks Design Studio site, nor the loving attention to detail paid to both the day and night theme, the sliding navigation applied for the four links located in the navigation bar teeters on the precipice of the kind of originality able to elicit simultaneous glazed eyes and rambling declarations of envy. A favourite minutiae: the brief flash of clouds within the night theme when traversing from the bottom of the screen to the top.
