Cool Websites thread

Personally, I can't stand Flash-heavy websites. They drive me nuts. I'm old school. I love elegant web pages that utilize nothing more than text, image, and links.

Check out this site: http://www.thebigsmoker.co.uk/

It won the best design award in the Guardian's British Blog award.

My favorite: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread....threadid=223041

+1

http://www.stanfordrejects.com

Well, I wasnt really after favorites, but the "coolest" as far as design goes.

http://site06.com/work/video/ijames_v2/index.html

http://www.billybussey.com/

wow.

cgtalk.com

yesterday, they reached the 100,000 members point, fantastic.

google.com

Yeah, but even on a broadband connection that site takes WAY to long to load... like I want to wait for a load each time I click a link when all I want to read is the dudes bio.

Artistically beautiful, but content definitely takes a backseat IMHO.

Cheers!

i thought google was your favorite website?

Topic: Cool Websites thread

www.derbauer.de

(especially Work->Past->Portal)

Very nice

http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm

http://www.ueny.org/

Take the last 3 letters of your username and add land to it. It's a dot com. I like the Humor section.

I like the tits section myself

http://www.ryanberg.net

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Nothin to view yet, just locked the design and WordPress integration down. Content comin soon.

Bobble heads anyone?

http://www.gigapixelcreative.com/

I like Huck the hound. His "click" music owns all elese.

http://www.apple.com oh and this one of course Mafia Designs even tho it hasn't been updated in forever.

linkdup.com/

and

http://moluv.com/

have links to cool sites.

saw a cool pic on a site I do a bit of work for:

http://www.mobilegamefaqs.com/newsstory.php?id=52

I'm a fan of Doc Baily's work:

http://imagesavant.com/

That would be THCland.com for me. Can you believe it's not actually a site?

Exactly. Flash is useless for content. I hate animated gifs and midis playing in the background of the site I'm browsing, so why do I want the navigation elements to by flashy and have sound effects?

Don't get me wrong, Flash can be good when it's implemented well [like when making a game or a cartoon (Homestar Runner, I'm looking in your direction)]. But for anything else, straight HTML and CSS is the best.

I get lots of design inspiration from the css Zen Garden

agrees, if I come across a site that uses flash I close it and go elsewhere.

Flash websites are SO 1999.

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Same here, I really hate Flash and animated things somewhere in the background.
Just imagine you are not on broadband: you don't want to wait half an hour for a page to load.