The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Stylegala's comment:
IÂ’m quite jealous of Jason Beaird. Not only because he has design skills that exceed my own, but also because he's the author of an impressive-looking new book, which this site is based upon.
I was immediately attracted to the many qualities of this website. From its chilled blue colour scheme to the big friendly two column layout, it oozes quality. Even the unusual hand-drawn typeface works without detriment to the design.
However the real “wow†factor becomes evident when you move your mouse over the navigation links, or click them. The unique visual prompts have been thoughtfully designed and portray a friendly, hands-on approach which I imagine fits the aura of the book like a tailor-made glove. Personally I would have removed the hover effect and left it to click only, but that's something and nothing.
A peek under the bonnet doesnÂ’t disappoint. Clean code and decent semantic structure runs throughout, and I couldn't see a shred of inline JavaScript cluttering the body markup, which is great. The site validates to XHTML Strict, although sadly the CSS just misses the mark.
Overall thought a great, albeit small website that communicates effectively with its target audience.
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