Philadelphia Eagles

Although they are not on top of their game this year, their website boasts an aggressive and sleek look. I like the banner on top, very solid and very eye catching. The logo is placed really well. I wish I could say the same thing about the navigation, but it appears very crowded and nothing seems to pop out. I am very overwhelmed by information on this site. I like how they are trying to stick to the green and cream theme, but the site could have used help from some other colors. The background is so boring, they could have tried putting in a dotted pattern or a little more variance in the color.

I am also surprised they didn't use a little more variance in the design structure. They have kept the design very blocky whereas the eagle look is very sleek and curvy. The only place that design is seen is at the bottom right, where it mentions the company that made the site, that box shape should have been reflected more in the design.

W HOTEL

Just like the hotel the website combines luxury, elegance and modern into a beautifully done design. Navigation is placed very well, with the central navigation being on top and the room booking on the side. The one thing I love about the site is the choice of colors. With a very dull brown gray look, the central color, purple in this case, stands out very well. The site design is very soft and smooth on the eyes which is important for a hotel website. Unlike other websites, where images are blasted into your face, this website keeps images on a down low and uses design to make the site come align.

The only negative side I had with the website is the [+] Feedback sign. It looks like it was stolen from the Adobe website long time ago.

IndyaFusion

The is one of the coolest restaurants I have seen. The way the menus zoom in and out is very captivating and normally it would have been a very cheesy effect, but this looks really classy. The layout of the site is excellent. I like how the entire site just has one background color, but the placement of the spices, adds that extra flavor.

There are a couple of disadvantages to having a flash site though, especially with it being search engine friendly and things like that. I also don't like the pre-loader that they have on the website. It looks very simple and out of place.

Overall I think the website is very strong, at least as far as design goes.

Priceline

The first thing that caught my attention was the center alignment of the website. It is probably the first question I ask about a website, is it center aligned or left aligned. All the other travel websites I visited were left aligned, whereas this site stood out from the crowd. Now obviously, if I was looking for a cheap ticket it wouldn't matter but nevertheless the site looks better in the center.

The site is well arranged with the three levels of navigation, and the ease of use. It doesn't look cluttered and doesn't seem to have bother with beautiful location images to lure customers in. Unfortunately I can't say anything good about William Shatner's face being there.

That being said, I did notice a glitch on the site. Now I don't know if this was intentional or not, but the text seems to be flickering on and off every few sec. Now I am looking at this on a Firefox browser and I do wonder if it has anything to do with that. Maybe its to get the viewers attraction, but I have had the same problem with a site that I built where the CSS and image rollovers seem to have been clashing. Other than that, this is a well designed site.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Sydney Australia

This site boasts a very unique navigation style. I must add, I have never seen this done before. I think the navigation alone simply captures the essence of contemporary design. I have been impressed with a lot of Australian site designs now. They are getting very unique and surprisingly US based website lack the uniqueness aspect. Everyone seems to be interested in the grunge side of web design.

Each menu has a unique color theme to it, and everything, even the logo changes colors when its on that page or on rollover. the design of the site is very well planned for information overload. The busiest pages on the site look very well spaced out. I also love their consistency, especially with using people as a divider between information in the body content itself. Overall this is a fantastic site. The only thing I would have loved to see was a corner showing images of contemporary design featured at the museum.

OMG!
Oh My God is Yahoo's new celebrity gossip site. With an ultra modern design, and popping colors this site is unique in every way. It uses a lot of images, basically every news story is a picture with a title on it. I like the site just because of the fact they went away from the newspaper column style design and let the picture speak the story. Sometimes its confusing because its hard to notice the ads they place in between. Once you click on the site, you see a design that closely resembles YouTube structure. Also if you go back to the homepage you see a green tick mark on the articles you have already visited. The only thing I didn't like about the website was the rollovers on the text links. The pink box seemed too tight around the text compared to the big and airy feel of the website.

Kellands

Most real estate site bombard you with scenic images and information about their agents and their logo. But I found this site to be interesting in using the real estate of the website screen. Very big buttons and lots of space everything. Maybe not entirely functional or aesthetic but it gives a lot of breathing space. I feel more relaxed when I am on this site and just feel like enjoying the scenery. I don't know if purple was the right color to go with the website, but it ain't too bad. I think the website has made it really simple, "buying" "selling" and everything else. I noticed also how I did not come across any human beings in the pictures. Just the property. I liked this view better than the shining bright teeth of models posing on property pictures on other real estate sites. Maybe its because its in New Zealand but this site definitely made real estate buying really relaxing and hassle free.