Effectlab - Web Design Review


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Effectlab
http://www.effectlab.com

Category:
Graphics & Web Design > Personal Sites

Created by:
Oliver Ottner in 2001

Rating:
Not rated yet

Date added:
Oct 18th, 2001

Last updated:
Oct 6th, 2002

Features:
DHTML, Flash, Frames, JavaScript, Rollovers

Our comments:
The design consists of a monochrome orange screen, which is somehow able to display color, and a control unit that looks like an oscilloscope. Exquisitely detailed textures complete with proper lighting please the eye. Buttons act like real buttons, however one cannot help but click on the lights placed next to the button labels. Overall, the design is a little claustrophobic because of the narrow page width and wide margins.

Note: You need to push the On/Off button to see the site. The reset button takes you back to the homepage.

--Aycan

User reviews:

by m-z0r (unregistered) - Mar 23rd, 2002

I don't understand what it is with website designers thinking it is cool to make text hard to read, and to make a website resemble a device. If you ask me, this is not a good example of web design. It is not very accessible to the disabled, it has hard to read, low contrast print and it overuses non-standard HTML effects.