Looking for Inspiring Website design

[Ocelot]

The characteristic I'm trying to convey is clarity, lucidiity, ease of understanding.

We're probably looking at little more than three pages of content so no clutter required.

Can anyone suggest and websites worth looking at for inspiration?

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

May I humbly suggest Google?

Get your message out on the home page. Back it up with some large, well paragraphed text (plus a picture if relevant). Put a date on the page when it was last maintained so that people know its currency.

At one point Alta Vista was the web search engine of choice but they made their home page more and more crowded and started using smaller and smaller fonts. I tried to tell them that it was becoming unreadable on smaller screens for people with less than perfect eyesight. Their response, "You can set a bigger font in your browser." Ha. Ha.

Then along came Google.

IMHO.

 

[madurobob]

So I guess Timecube is out of the question?

 

[Wudang]

Depends on your market. I like the clean simplicity of http://www.alistapart.com/

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Depends on your market. I like the clean simplicity of http://www.alistapart.com/

And exactly what size font do they use?

 

[Wudang]

I don't care. I can set a bigger font in my browser.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I don't care. I can set a bigger font in my browser.

 

[Sam.I.Am]

Have you tried Zombo.com? I've heard that you can do anything there. If that doesn't help then maybe a Google search for web templates may help to find you what you want. There are a ton of free ones out there to use.

 

[Dessi]

There's a pretty big difference in expectation between building a site for your business, for your garage band, or modeling portfolio. What sort of site are you building?

For what its worth, there are lots of places to see interesting designs, you might find some more interesting than others:

http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://bestwebgallery.com/
http://www.thebestdesigns.com/

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Then along came Google.

I like the Google home page because it doesn't over-use color. I think many sites use too much color.

I'm not touting my own site as any sort of model at all, but I do like the use of only two colors:

http://www.windfall.com/


~~ Paul

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I like the Google home page because it doesn't over-use color. I think many sites use too much color.

I'm not touting my own site as any sort of model at all, but I do like the use of only two colors:

http://www.windfall.com/


~~ Paul

I'll give you a couple of thumbs up on that.

 

[Wudang]

This doesn't just apply to universities
http://xkcd.com/773/

 

[bluesjnr]

I like the Google home page because it doesn't over-use color. I think many sites use too much color.

I'm not touting my own site as any sort of model at all, but I do like the use of only two colors:

http://www.windfall.com/


~~ Paul

Have you checked your "book production" link with Firefox? I see no images and the text is all over the place even overlapping the copyright bar.

 

[Morrigan]

This doesn't just apply to universities
http://xkcd.com/773/

Hehe. Reminds me of this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website

I'm not touting my own site as any sort of model at all

I hope not, because... well I don't mean to be rude, but that's really abysmal design.

And the html... haha, my eyes! Well, I did see this, which explains a lot:
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Virtual Mechanics SiteSpinner V2 270f ">