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Hallo alll,

I've quit my job and have started my own business, and now its time to sort a website out, I need to get a design brief together. So i'm wondering if you guys can help by posting the 'best looking / function / designed' websites that you visit, I don't mean the usual ones like google lol!

So if you've seen any websites where you thought "hey, this looks funkeh" or "wow, this really works well", i'd appreciate it if you'd share it with me :]

p.s - while posts like "LOLOL YUO PRON DOT COM LOOKS BEST" are indeed funneh, they make baby jesus cry, so don't post them :<
 
Whoa the jonathon yuen one is nuts :o

& in response to ulv, cba writing again:
[16:29] <od^> [16:27] <od^> its do with tenants rental deposits
[16:29] <od^> [16:27] <od^> and disputes
[16:29] <od^> [16:27] <od^> ;e
[16:29] <od^> [16:27] <od^> acting as a 3rd party arbitrator, doing reports
[16:29] <od^> [16:27] <od^> that kinda thing
 
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Take a look at http://www.cssbeauty.com/gallery/ and at http://www.cssdrive.com/. These galleries are updated regularly, and show quite a few well done websites. You can browse through categories, etc.

As a front-end developer myself, i run into quite a few websites and 'modern' techniques. One i recently finished is http://www.procurios.nl/. The idea is to focus on the content, take the design to a minimum and enhance user experience with gracefully degrading code. In my opinion, the end result is quite nice.

If u need advice or whatever, you know where to talk to me ;)
 
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Take a look at http://www.cssbeauty.com/gallery/ and at http://www.cssdrive.com/. These galleries are updated regularly, and show quite a few well done websites. You can browse through categories, etc.

As a front-end developer myself, i run into quite a few websites and 'modern' techniques. One i recently finished is http://www.procurios.nl/. The idea is to focus on the content, take the design to a minimum and enhance user experience with gracefully degrading code. In my opinion, the end result is quite nice.

If u need advice or whatever, you know where to talk to me ;)
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Its in dutch, thats not modern..
 
I like flash websites. Quick enough and look fantastic. I googled a bit and I guess it depends on what the website is for.

If its for an artist then maybe like this one: http://www.yulia-nau.de/

This you probably already have seen, its quick and great looking http://2advanced.com/

xeofreestyle was awesome when it came out and still is imo but probably not the best website for a company sells steel pipes or whatever :P. Couldnt find the original but I found this http://cwolf042.deviantart.com/art/XeoFreestyle-52455670

www.scifi.com is good

Worst looking is probably www.imdb.com but its informative
 
Flash sites ftl. :( (yeah other flash sites work fine :P)
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Seriously, I would never make a flash-only website. Also do note that flash doesn't really work well on PDA's/Mobiles/etc.
I guess you could create multiple sites for different platforms. But it's probably easier to make one site viewable for every platform.
This in itself is quite hard to accomplish. Since you'd have to keep in mind that people use IE/Firefox/Opera/etc. and all of them render sites differently. It can be very hard work to make a site compatible with every possible browser/OS combination. So like, if you're outsourcing the creation of your website be sure that they deliver something which has this compatibility.

Anyway, imho other than looks it's waaaaay more important that your site is easy to visit- and navigate through.
 
What pinny said pretty much. Id always prefere a clear simple but elegant design over something blinking and shiny that looks amazing but is rather useless! You wanna look reliable and respectable not fancy i bet.
 
I'm sorry to say this, but those full-flash sites are really rubbish for a business. What you need is a smart looking functional website that doesn't have you fuck around with trying to find hidden links in moving pictures by hovering your mouse over them. From what I can remember of some articles I read during my study, 30% of potential customers leave the site if they can't find the information they are looking for within 10-20 seconds.

Get a navigation bar with a simple design plan behind it that actually leads the browser somewhere, the IKEA site that was posted is a good example of this. There's a big difference between well-designed sites and good looking sites!
 
If you need flexibility, ease of updating and might need a complex hierarchy for your site, go for some sort of CMS, there's lots of good free stuff around (google joomla for example, you can have it all with that). If you can live with more stiff dev ground but need lots of bling bling, go for a flash site with a GOOD designer and a decent budget. Cheap "oooh"-flash sites are just going to suck so much that your business will go elsewhere.
 
the company i work for runs everything using mambo and are moving onto joomla

obviously it depends what ur using the website for, are u selling on it?
 
What petez said. I've worked with Joomla before, but it's utter crap. Takes quite alot of time to get things done and it produces alot of crap code.
 
CMS Made Simple is a great system to use. Been using that for a couple of years now on various different sites for clients.

I'm also a huge fan of cakephp, a PHP development framework which Mambo announced that would be using for their next major version. Any framework you learn and use means that the site is 100% flexible, allows you to be creative and achieve any functionality you want.
 
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