2007 / June 22^nd/ Ordered List

Steve Smith’s Ordered List makes it to my Marks for several reasons. I’ve always thought that Steve’s domain was one of the best on the web. Even if his logo may be an unordered list, the spirit and idea behind it is wonderful.

I’ve been keeping track of Steve since the neon days of OL, and have loved each of the designs he’s put out. The current design is a great, deeply saturated dark site without falling into the contrast-trap so many dark sites fall into (his site has just the right amount of contrast, not too much, not too little).

My favorite part of this particular design is the comments. Steve’s site was probably the reason that Gravatars are now enabled around Warpspire — they’re just so damn sexy when used correctly.

One last comment I’d like to make on OL is the great use of vertical balance. So often on the web we see an emphasis on so-called “grid design” — when the term designers mean is “column design.” Steve makes sure to not only balance out his site horizontally, but vertically as well. The homepage is a great example of this, with little unused space. This also allows Steve to use a larger font-size since he uses the rest of the space so economically.

1. 

   Luke

   June 22^nd | #

   I’d always considered the logo just a bunch of i’s haha. Good article, and nice redesign on this site. I’m loving the front page

2. 

   Steve Smith

   June 27^th | #

   Hey thanks man. I’m glad you enjoy. Now if I could just write more, it would actually be a cool blog.

3. 

   Tippser

   September 26^th | #

   I like the new layout, but your old layouts were great too. what are you doing with that now? Here we can see you site in the past: http://web.archive.org/web/*/orderedlist.com

4. 

   leon

   September 28^th | #

   Very nice way of playing with colors. Dark page with the green highlighting the topics. I will keep this in mind thinking about a redesign of my page.

5. 

   Frank

   October 16^th | #

   The design is brillant, well done! Especially the icon design is state of the art.

6. 

   Jesper

   October 19^th | #

   The icon design is brillant, the page itself plain but premium

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