Comments on: Mega Domaining Essentials Contest Additional Task #4

By: Ericka

Ericka — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:12:32 +0000

Best: I really liked Bidvertiser.com
The design of the layout is simple yet anyone who get there will find easily what he’s looking for. The combination of the colors are pleasing to eyes. Comfortable much! Number one in designing. Easy navigating on pages. Links are favorable.

Worst: This is not really the worst, err, I just think the layout of Estibot.com is lacking of something. Maybe the templete is sooooo dull? 4 colors isn’t enough. Gee, their site still helps but the templete navigation has too many links on it. Maybe a minute or two to find what I’m looking for.

By: Stanil Dobrev

Stanil Dobrev — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:38:41 +0000

http://www.psd2html.com/ is best for me. It is very clean, nice looking, without any useless design elements.
The worst design for me is http://estibot.com/. I use estibot very much and like the services, but the design is very basic and even the image of the logo is not of very good quality.
my username: plxtransformer

By: DotDriven

DotDriven — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:04:46 +0000

My fav design of the lost is probably psd2html. Clean, nice layout and easy to find what you want.

Least fav is probably estibot. I assume they “designed” it like that more for the SEO with all the text links and such but it’s possible to do the same while still making it look nice. There are tons of very simple service type sites out there with just one input box but still look great…some inspiration from those would help the design of estibot.

By: Big Blogger

Big Blogger — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:17:36 +0000

escrow doesn’t look very professional, it looks like done by a 12 years old guy at his second html experiment. Don’t knowing who the company is, only by judging this site would you trust them to give them your money ?

John Cow is my favorite design fo the list provided: that idea of the Chow parody has been one of the best ideas and themes of 2007. Jason did also a great job reorganizing the theme for optimizing all the ad spaces.

By: Domain Marvelous

Domain Marvelous — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:53:29 +0000

Best designed:
In my opinion, bidvertiser.com is the best designed site. its very light, so users even on dial up have no problem loading the website. It has a very clean interface, structured layout; even a first time visitor will have no problems navigating the website. I am also impressed by the simple designed header and logo. The “Featured Advertisers” are placed neatly on the bottom left with no intrusive ads splashed to normal surfers.

Worst Designed:
With all due respects to John Cow and his success, I am not particularly impressed by the design of the blog (or website). Too may ads is one thing that turns me away. The site is also heavy on bandwidth; a downside which usually turns away potential visitors on low speed internet connection. The top navigation can easily be missed, which can leave newcomers wondering about the structure of the website. The number of posts on homepage needs to be reduced, in my opinion. Users need to scroll down to access earlier posts, which is something I am not a fan off.

By: mana

mana — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:11:35 +0000

Updating my blog for additional task #4

By: whn

whn — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:07:17 +0000

Best: psd2html. The design is kept simple with matching color palette.

Worst: estibot. The color scheme doesn’t match each other. What with the huge ads that takes half of the page? There is too much things at the top table list, I’m confused with the page navigation.

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By: Romico

Romico — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:36:31 +0000

Me, i just love dnsstuff design. it look just so simple yet everything blends well all together. Plus, the site are really user friendly.
For worsts design i have to go with estibot. Looks like the it stuck with the 90′s era, and too much square. Put up more striking color and images, probably round edge square for the table.
romico

By: domainmaster

domainmaster — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:52:49 +0000

Re JohnCow.com, the site began life as a copycat blog of JohnChow.com. There was a similarity in theme and template. Ironically, JohnCow.com also made it on to the first page of google for ‘John Chow’, which is kind of funny. This much is well known. (I’m also a semi-regular at John Chow’s Dotcom Pho meetups, so I’m aware of some behind the scene things.)

I believe the original owner – Mr Jones – parlayed his make mooney online blog to modest success, then sold it off to new owners, who have included some decent content but something about that cartoon character kinda bugs me.