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dave.shea.net
http://www.dave.shea.net

Category:
Graphics & Web Design > Personal Sites

Created by:
Dave Shea in 2001

Rating:
6.4 (11 votes)

Date added:
Sep 10th, 2001

Last updated:
Sep 10th, 2001

Suggested by:
dave_shea (6)

Tools Used:
Adobe Photoshop, Notepad

Designer's words:
my personal home site. i'm not too inclined to play by the rules for my own projects, if that's any kind of a disclaimer. i did spend the time to make it 800x600 friendly, but NS4.x is a lost cause.

photoshopped entirely. i'm proud of the fact that it's all hand-painted in ps, no photos to be found. i live in vancouver, so i tried capturing that west coast flavor.

Our comments:
Beautiful personal homepage design with incredible attention to detail. Clever use of inline frames, layers, and the Internet Explorer alpha filter allow smooth transition between the scrollable content area and the surrounding collage. The text is not very easy to read nor is the cool broken glass menu, but why care?

--Aycan

by irrabbit   (unregistered) - Aug 24th, 2003 the design is very subtle, very neat, very nice. Simple and elegant. I like the theme as well. The design itself tells something about the creator. Very BEAUTIFUL! Shadow Cat (2) - Jan 14th, 2002 I love the graphics used. My internet connection is pretty crappy, but, this loaded up just fine for me. This site was fairly easy to navigate. The only change I would suggest is the color of the text. Even when I highlighted it, it was still hard to read. witchy (6) - Dec 23rd, 2001 I have a dial up connection, so maybe that's the reason, but it took Forever to load. The graphics are excellent, but it was extremely hard to read any of the content. Sarah (34) - Nov 28th, 2001 Presentation  5 Graphics  7 Usability  6 Technical  5 Personal Slant  6 Overall 5.8 nice illustrations do not make a good website design