Pimped Up: Site of the Month
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I like the whole site of the month thing. But this is a design site, so actual website should not be included, just design and modifications to templates. Maybe actual website content should be judged in a different area. I think the prestige of a design firm being able to say they were a RT SOTM winner is award enough, and is impressive within the Joomla! community.
In that regard, I would like to submit the modification to solarflare I did on urbanbutterflymusic.com for the SOTM contest. The sites should be getting better now that the tutorial section is coming up. I have used some of the tips there to create some custom templates for some clients. The most recent ones are viewable at sjwebsitedesign.net/labs
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- Natalie D.
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- Design for a teenage rock band site would be difficult to compare for example to design for a bank website. Design is only good design to the extent that it solves a specific business problem. A bank website that looked like a teenage rockband site might be visually cool, but it would in all likelihood be inappropriate for the client. In my book, that means it wouldn't be good design, no matter how 'cool' it actually looked. That's why I would suggest more than one category for entries.... What those categories might be?? an entertainment site category? a corporate category? a blog category? The categories could also be decided by RT after the fact, after the entries had been reviewed...
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- I see what you mean. However, I meant the clients content, or lack there of shouldn't hurt. Just modification of templates, can't help it if the client wants to include visually unappealing photos in a website. They may just have an ugly family, you know what I mean?
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- Daniel Chapman
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How about a different category each month?
Really though, I don't think this will be an issue.
A Bank site or a Rockband site can both look really good, and make use of excellent design features regardless of their intended audience.
You could also then argue that we should have different categories for skill level, or template used as some simply produce better looking websites than others etc.
I am not sure it needs to be made more complex as it already seems hard enough to maintain. ;D
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- Natalie D.
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- I guess my perspective is that design can only be good in context of the problem it is trying to solve. Take architecture. If somebody asked "What is good architecture?", for me the question would be "Architecture for what? Public buildings? Airports? Private single-family homes?". It seems unfair to compare architectural designs that apply to such different categories -- it's apples and oranges. What would be great for one category would be bad for another because it wouldn't be appropriate to the needs of the client/business. To me it seems design and the purpose of a design can't be easily separated in evaluating whether or not a design is successful.
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- Daniel Chapman
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But a good house, is a good house, and a good cathedral is a good cathedral.
You don't need to compare the house and cathedral by the same scale.
But the house might be a better house, than the cathedral is a cathedral.
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- Natalie D.
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Yes, that's exactly my point... and why there should be more than one category for entries
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