Your best designed websites?

[Tutankhamun]

What's the best designed sites on the Internet according to you?

Here's my list:

Daring Fireball
Loop Insight
apple.com
Brooks Review
Marco.org

It's astonishing to me how few websites are well designed, seems most care more about getting as many ads as possible onto their site.

Thread inspired by this blog post: The demise of quality content on the web

 

[Cuguy]

Content doesn't pay bills LOL It draws people into your site if you have good content, but what makes the money is the page hits from ad revenue.

I agree more sites could tidy up a bit, but ads are what make the world go around. Like it or not.

 

[Cybertox]

Thats simple, Apple.com
Best designed website ever.

 

[Tutankhamun]

[QUOTE="Cuguy, post: 5721553]Content doesn't pay bills LOL It draws people into your site if you have good content, but what makes the money is the page hits from ad revenue.

I agree more sites could tidy up a bit, but ads are what make the world go around. Like it or not.[/QUOTE]

Then the question is, do you want to make your living creating great content and serving great well targeted ads? Or, use Google ads and give your users a crappy experience? I couldn't sleep at night if I had a website with Google ads all over, but maybe that's just me.

Ads from Fusion, The Deck etc are great imo. Small, target ads that are well designed. That's how you do it . All the sites I linked makes more money than those with Google ads etc, I guarantee it. They also have great content.

 

[Nerevar]

I thought this was obvious, Google.

I also personally enjoy the general bubbly, blue style of the Bukkit Forums.

 

[RinoTheBouncer]

The old www.kylie.com and www.madonna.com (not the current ones)
Avatar Movie and Transformers Movie websites.
Apple.com

 

[AaronSOLDIER]

Some sites actually look better with ads, much better than a blank space.

 

[Tutankhamun]

[QUOTE="AaronSOLDIER, post: 5722593]Some sites actually look better with ads, much better than a blank space.[/QUOTE]

Ads can be non-intrusive and relevant for sure, but it is rare sites take that step.

 

[keefy]

www.Quakelive.com its also a game.
www.Hl2ctf.com

I hate sites that have drop down menus when mouse hover such as www.ebuyer.com its a decent place to buy computer stuff in the UK but by god does the site layout annoy the crap out of me.

 

[[DT]]

"Best designed" is pretty nebulous. There are sites that have spectacular design aesthetic/artistry, sites that are effective because they're basically an application, sites that are great for news/information ... it all depends on the design intent, and it's not always mutually exclusive!

 

[spyrde]

psu.com is pretty tight.

 

[Tutankhamun]

"Best designed" is pretty nebulous. There are sites that have spectacular design aesthetic/artistry, sites that are effective because they're basically an application, sites that are great for news/information ... it all depends on the design intent, and it's not always mutually exclusive!

It is a subjective thread

 

[*goo]

[QUOTE="spyrde, post: 5722762]psu.com is pretty tight.[/QUOTE]

Great forums (for the people) but the layout/design is pretty inconsistent.

 

[ex nihilo7]

www.Quakelive.com[/URL] its also a game.
www.Hl2ctf.com

I hate sites that have drop down menus when mouse hover such as www.ebuyer.com its a decent place to buy computer stuff in the UK but by god does the site layout annoy the crap out of me.

As someone who has employed the use of such a menu, I ask why does it bother you?

 

[Tutankhamun]

[QUOTE="ex nihilo7, post: 5722900]As someone who has employed the use of such a menu, I ask why does it bother you?[/QUOTE]

Can't answer for Keefy, but personally - I don't like how it scales. Meaning it works bad on touch devices. I don't really think it solves the problem of getting to your content quickly that well either.

 

[ex nihilo7]

[QUOTE="Tutankhamun, post: 5722904]Can't answer for Keefy, but personally - I don't like how it scales. Meaning it works bad on touch devices. I don't really think it solves the problem of getting to your content quickly that well either.[/QUOTE]

Hmmm, the ebuyer site seems to work pretty well on the touch, but I can definitely see how a bad implementation of it would not scale well at all. Yet it does seem more annoying to have to touch it on the mobile device than hover with the mouse.

Design is hard lol.