May 1^st/ Red Crown Studio

Red Crown Studio is one of those sites that isn’t particularly stunning in some kind of artistic or conceptional fashion, but what it does instead is tie together a lot of really good design sensibilities into a rock solid design. The site’s design is clean, readable, and makes good use of large fonts (something that’s rarely done right). They’ve also done a great job of using simplistic icons throughout the site to mix up the content design throughout the site.

I really like it when people don’t use the same template for different sections of the site, and I think that’s probably one of the biggest reasons I enjoy this site so much. Looking through the different sections of the site, each section has a unique feel to it.

I do have a couple points of critique — notably, the news section. The last, and only piece of news was posted back in December (4+ months ago). At this point, I’d just remove the news section entirely. The second point is the monstrosity of a contact form. Big fields are nice and all, but not when it requires excessive scrolling.

1. 

   Derek

   May 1^st | #

   The rollover state for unordered list on the home page don’t have rollovers for the background images :( Definitely a clean site though.

2. 

   Chris King

   May 1^st | #

   Wow! Thanks for the nice write-up on our site!
   Great feedback, too!
   It’s good to know it’s being well received by the CSS and design community.

   I enjoy your blog very much as well.
   Keep up the great work!

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