2.23.2005

Rock Star's Websites

When putting together your own "rock star" website it is necessary to study actual rock star websites, which I have been doing in my spare time. I discovered that a lot of Rock Stars have old, poorly updated websites. It looks like many people put a lot of money and work into developing flashy cutting edge websites when the web was new and then discovered how much was required to maintain such a website. A lot of sites have flashy graphics and music but no content to back up the site's pretty looks.
My goal and what I mean by Rock Star website, is a site that looks expensive but is designed without any expensive parts. The site should be colorful, energetic, and look as if it might fly off the screen but without breaking the budget of the guy who built it.
I do know these things:
  • I hate rectangles.
  • I like irregular borders.
  • I like not having any borders.
  • I like Jenniferlopez.com.
  • My liking Jennifer Lopez's site has more to do with the picture on the left side of the site than it has to do with the design.
  • I don't look as good with my shirt off as J.Lo. does. (But I do look real good, let me assure you).
  • I hate sites that make you download stuff to see them.
  • I hate sites that only work on certain browsers.
  • I think really cool designs should also look really simple.

Those are my design principle right there, in a nutshell.

While you ponder my rules of good design check out www.firstrock.net.

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