My favorite websites

As I set out to find five “neat” websites, I found myself in a slump. I tend to stick to two websites: Facebook and MyBama. Since we could not describe the importance of these two, I simply googled “neat websites” but I had no luck. Then I realized that I do visit websites, but I don’t think of them so much as websites, rather as stores.
After reviewing my recent history of searches, I traveled to a few of them, keeping an eye out for good design. My favorite website was www.jcrew.com. This website featured a video intro with a slideshow of pictures and a narrator. What was neat about the video was that the background music, narrator, clothing, scenery all matched one central theme: “greeting the season from the isle of skye”. With bagpipes and a rich Scottish accent, I felt like I was actually overseas and I really enjoyed looking at the different clothing options.
Another websites that I thoroughly enjoyed was www.ralphlauren.com. This site also featured a video, but it had a noticeably different style. With soothing, classical music and clean videos of snapshots created a very “classy” feel. The fonts also matched this style, with serifs giving a gothic look. The layout of this page was symmetrical and also featured a good use of white space along the outside.
The third website I enjoyed was www.juicycouture.com. This also featured a video, but it was humorous. I really enjoyed the synchronized sparkle effects on the label and crowns. The fonts also matched the logo, creating a rich, British mood.
The fourth website I enjoyed that would be appealing to both sexes was www.nike.com. This website again featured a video of at first glance, looks like a football game. Upon closer examination, I realized that this was actually a video game playing but the graphics were so well developed that it looked real. This video appears to pop from the darker background, although it doesn’t look 3-D, the background looks like it fades and has depth. The fonts are very crisp and the site as a whole is very unisex, which could appeal to a wider range of people.
The last website I visited was www.lacoste.com. The main difference between this site and the others was that this site did not feature a video. However, the reason I included this site was because of the creativity in which they introduced pictures. This site was asymmetrical, with a white space box with no defined borders. Every few seconds a new model/style would fade strategically in to the undefined block of white space.