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	[quote name="Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post"]<a href="http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm">http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm</a> OK, here's what I'm thinking when I see these: 9rules - ungodly cluttered layout. WTF. Horrible mess. Good on the sans-serif fonts, grayscale icons in the corners of each section but rejected out of hand for layout and excessive business. To Hell you go, citizen! 31Three - clean layout, good navigation, good colors, dotted line dilineation of page sections is subtle yet functional. FIXED-WIDTH COLUMNS + SIGNIFICANT FOOTER CONTENT = NO. Status: Denied. Avalonstar - ridiculously large and ultimately useless header. Trim ALL of it down to the navigation. Bad general layout with no vertical frame of reference of any kind - I feel lost and alone. Colors are okay but a bit blasé, the effect of overlapping, translucent, beveled boxes is a minor eyesore and awfully distracting. Graded NI for Needs Improvement. emaginacion - pure garbage. Garish color clashing, poor logo, lack of vertical elements in page as with Avalonstar. Uses serif for titles and sans-serif for blocks of text. Here's a hint: if you must mix typography styles, do the exact opposite. Email link on the bottom straight out of the 1996 style book. I care that you care about XHTML. No, really. Iconbuffet: the yellow-beige/forest-green color clash simply does not work. Highlight with the orange element you've already got going on. Trim 20-40 pixels of unused space off the top and bottom of that logo, but don't overdo it. One of the oh-so-rare appropriate uses of fixed-width. Conclusion: Needs a bit of touchup but good potential here. Iomega: With Flash, it's absolutely beautiful. Nearly flawless, though the header navigation is a bit busy. That's with Flash, though, and forcing popups/singing & dancing ads on people for every other website out there - just to use yours - gives you an automatic score of 0 out of 10. LinkedIn: requires logins. Horrendous implementation of tabbed header navigation. Goodnight, Gracie. Mozilla: A study in how to properly handle tabbed header navigation. Good layout, good colors, good everything. A+ Plaxo: On the default page the blue-gray color gradient on the logo clashes with a) the shade of blue used immediately to the left and b) the shade of gray used for the background. The layout of the header navigation works fine, but could use a bit of visual refinement - a touch too 2001. Good work overall. sirruf: Nothing overtly wrong here, but I can see a lot of potential touchup work. A slightly softer shade of green, the dotted green lines under the links would look better with a very soft green solid line. The logo is lowercase AND uses serifs, so it looks extra, extra weak. The reflection is superfluous. Good try but needs so many little tweaks as to being annoying. squarespace: I love you, I love you, I love you - come home and have my babies. Perfect. Absolutely and completely perfect. You win the Internet. Wishingline Design Studios - cluttered, excessive number of links, horrible use of a three-column design in the sub-sections. Not vomit-worthy, but definitely disdain-worthy. whew I'm fresh out of snobbery. Anyone else want to take a crack? posted by Ryvar at 5:25 PM PST on February 10 [/quote]