smashingmagazine.com — Since no page is equally important as the start page, it’s interesting to know, which approaches designers come up with, developing an innovative design for start pages. Let’s take a look. Unusual, remarkable and outstanding start pages - in a brief overview.
Jul 17, 2007 View in Crawl 4
scyth3Jul 17, 2007
A lot of cool examples. I totally forgot about that "no click" site.
tannercJul 17, 2007
Not clicking is the future.
Closed AccountJul 17, 2007
While pretty and innovative, they're not the most intuitive to browse. A good start page should be a balance between looking good and cutting-edge, but at the same time make sense to the target market they're going after. These look cluttered and difficult to use. If I have to hover my mouse over everything just to see what it's for - or if it does anything at all, then I'm likely to get tired of it, no matter how cool it looks.So maybe the title is just a little misleading, as they're great looking pages.
felixdaahackJul 17, 2007
The roll over pop-up text links in the paragraphs are neither "appealing" or "innovative"
resplenceJul 18, 2007
I'm pretty good at "exploring" websites. It just got old 7 years ago.
chewmyfootoffJul 18, 2007
Outstanding if only html/css/javascript are used. Flash? Buried as lame.
springmediaAug 10, 2007
I really challenge the use of the term outstanding. They are all about the designers ego's rather than than the user. Whoever did those designs had clearly never read "don't make me think" by Steve Krug. They look pretty, but web design ultimately has to be about the visitor which seems to have been lost in these designs.