2007 / June 22nd/ 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.
Example comments from orderedlist.com
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.
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June 22nd | #
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
June 27th | #
Hey thanks man. I’m glad you enjoy. Now if I could just write more, it would actually be a cool blog.
September 26th | #
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
September 28th | #
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.
October 16th | #
The design is brillant, well done! Especially the icon design is state of the art.
October 19th | #
The icon design is brillant, the page itself plain but premium