When I saw this site listed on CSSFaves.com, I was immediately drawn by the color scheme of the design. Upon further reviewing the design, I began to appreciate its simplicity. I love how the designer used whitespace, or negative space, to focus in on the content. I also like how the designer chose a warm muted color scheme. My eyes didn’t have a hard time adjusting to the colors of the content. One thing that I wasn’t to sure about was the inconsistency in the gutter space where white meets the cream. The text has less padding on the white background than the text on the cream background. For some reason I can catch little things like that. Other than that, this website is amazing. Oh and I almost for got one main thing I love about this site, the logo is very cool. It makes me want to click on it.

When I first visit MIX Online, I am drawn by the simplicity of the site mainly because of the colorful dots laying around above the top fold. Secondly, I like how the borders of each module, or section, do not fully expand all the way to each end, but stop before reaching the gutter. It gives the module more of a design element rather than just a plain border.

I am a big fan of print design. I actually started my career as a print designer, but then soon evolved to a web designer. In MIX Online, I like how the designer tried to bring in elements from print design to the website by the use of borders, spacing, headline typography and serif fonts to display content within a module. Another interesting element are the two-tone color images used for the authors pictures. Sometimes just using regular images can get boring and these guys went outside of the box.

The one thing I am NOT a big fan of are the icons used for the social networks on the homepage. I think they could have chosen better icons that don’t have a lot of shadows and apple reflections. I can’t stand when a designer has a nice website, but then decides to throw in crappy social icons. Here are 33 amazing icons that you can choose from just don’t pick the grassy ones or the beverage shaped ones. Overall this site is beautiful.

If you know who designed this website, please let me know. Thanks

This site design is amazing. I love the simple tabs that is used for the main navigation for each product. I also like the light shadows used to separate the sidebar from the main content and the noised used in the background. The colors from the icons pop when displayed on top of the background. The guys over at Made by Elephant did an amazing job.

When I first saw this site, I was immediately drawn to the background. I love how the smoke effect is all pixel based which reminds me of the new Tron movie that will be released December 2010. I also like all the open space within the site because it allows for it to breathe. When things become cluttered, it is always hard for me to figure out where to start reading and on Wasabi’s website, I am immediately drawn to create a new adventure.

I love the big call to action button.

I love the style design of MetaLab. Those guys love to make sure everything is detailed from borders to navigation to buttons.