Tales of a Designer » Reboot http://www.jwphill3.com Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Come and Gone http://www.jwphill3.com/reboot/come-and-gone/ http://www.jwphill3.com/reboot/come-and-gone/#comments Mon, 08 May 2006 16:50:16 +0000 John Phillips http://sandbox.jwphill.com/2006/05/08/come-and-gone/ So I had been looking forward to the Reboot for quite a few weeks, and I was pretty excited about it. But now that it has come and gone, it wasn’t exactly what I expected it to be. Not that it was a bad thing, but I think the server problems that were going on at the beginning, and the ultra slow loading times kinda threw me off a little bit.

Anyways, I spent a big part of that day going through the other designs. Overall, I was not as impressed as I was back for the fall 2005 reboot, however, the sites that I did like, I really liked:

Avalonstar

Nidahas

If..Else

JustKyle

Domestik.net

Chris Williams Design

So there’s my verdict. That is the handful of sites that I thought stood out the most with the layout and visual appeal. Good job peoples! Keep up the good work.

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Before it was all just monotone, with grey, black and white. I figured I need a little bit of color to make the page come alive and blue was the color of choice. The minor tweak that I made to the site over the last couple of days makes me alot more comfortable with the look and feel of the site.

My goal for this site is to write alot more about my experiences as a young designer. This is also the platform for my portfolio, although I am thinking that I might design a seperate site for it. But that will not be for awhile.

I love the CSS Reboot. It is interesting to see the amount of traffic that hits my site when the reboot days come about. Hopefully I will be able to participate in all of them because it gets your site out there for tons of people to see. I will more than likely check back in later this week to link to the sites that I think are the most impressive, in my eyes at least. I have a big feeling that some designers are going to bring their ‘A’ game for this reboot. So I expect to see some very nice looking sites.

So I hope you like the site, and I would encourage you to come back soon, because I plan on updating a little more often now.

Good luck to the rest of the rebooters!

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