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Archive: May 2006
Web 2.0 Design
Ok, it has finally driven me to write this rant. The whole "Web 2.0" design style. It's like every designer in the web community has suddenly lost all independent creative thought and started cloning the site next to him/her. It's driving me nuts! First off, the colour palette. Apparently it must all be lime green, orange and teal blue - preferably all together. Second you must have gradients especially on dark grey backgrounds. Third you must use HUGE fonts, all the same font faces, oh and italics. Other rules to follow are using rounded corners, making your site stretchy and making use of a reflective drop shadow somewhere. God help us all, even Slashdot has fallen victim with its redesign:Mint - lime green, dark grey gradients = 2 Web 2.0 points
Slashdot - dark grey gradients, stretchy, rounded corners, italics = 4 Web 2.0 points
Ning - lime green, teal blue, huge fonts, rounded corners = 4 Web 2.0 points
Clear Left - lime green, stretchy, huge fonts, italics, reflective drop shadow = 5 Web 2.0 points
@Media - lime green, orange, teal blue, stretchy, huge fonts, italics, reflective drop shadow = 7 Web 2.0 points THE WINNER!! 31 May 2006 | 2 comments
