Take a look at this very well-designed website - baekdal.com. Nice huh? They have used very matching colours and it’s sort of neat. I will explain later what I mean by “sort of”. And the layout of the blog is just great. This site shows how well a simple layout can create a very beautiful website. You can also see that it’s all about borders and lines (and of course nice photos/graphics). I usually like blogs with smaller fonts, because nowadays with big LCD monitors, small fonts shouldn’t be a problem for most. Anyway, this blog has rather big fonts, which I don’t find it appropriate considering that the blog title itself isn’t that big. Actually the post title itself is bigger than the actual blog title! I am not a snicker for tradition, but this feels a bit weird to me. Or maybe I am just too old fashioned.
And with such large fonts, this blog has crammed a lot of content into it’s main page. Yes, I have to agree, it is sure very neat. And it still looks neat even after you scroll and scroll right to the bottom. The thing is that the main page has more than 30 blog posts and articles! That’s a hell lot of content in one page. Sure, they use snipplets, but won’t it look better if they have only like 10 to 15 articles on the main page rather than 40 articles all stuffed into one page? In my opinion, that is just too much for a single page. Although I believe it is rather good for SEO since Search Engine Crawlers will bound to crawl those juicy links.
Anyway, kudos to a well-designed blog. You may be wondering why I am blogging about beautiful looking blogs these days. Well, if you have been reading this blog you will know why - I am doing research, hoping to get ideas and inspiration to create a very “professional looking” website for my company. If you are a web design professional and willing to do it for free, please contact me. Yes, I am that cheapskate.
Again, I would like to stress that this company did not pay me to “promote” their site. I stumbled across this site when I was doing some research and trying to steal some ideas for some of my other projects. So here it is - hickdesign. Well, this company is based in the UK and they do some pretty nice looking graphics and logos. If only I could afford to hire them and let them design me a solid logo which everyone will remember and recognize. You can browse through some of their work and you will be amazed at their logos and icons. You know the logo for Firefox (looks like some fox whose tail is on fire), it’s designed by them!
The main thing that attracts me to this site is the way it is designed. It’s made up of simple shapes (CSS based) with clear and very beautiful graphics. Nothing super fanciful and they don’t have any flash or whatever. Just good placement of their graphics making it extremely pleasing to the eye. And what a superb colour theme and combination they have too! I think the way they present their site in such a way that it feels simple, yet complicated enough to impress me. The designers certainly have some skill and might I add, taste. I always wondered the amount of patience and hardwork to create such a masterpiece. And just think of the amount of time needed to create those little icons and graphics! If only I have the skill and the patience to do that.
They also do web designing for their clients as well. I visited some of their sample clients’ sites and I am again impressed by what they have done. They seemed to take a lot of pride in doing their website which is rather rare at this age and time. And by seeing what they have done, it has sort of inspired me to re-do some of my other projects. I really hope I get a better result. If you find any nice looking websites or blogs, please let us know so that I can err…..get inspired by it.
