Awesome Websites

Twitter has become a popular site due to its clever 140 character gimmick that is similar to texting, and because it has become a place to spread news about anything from the earthquake in Japan to Charlie Sheen's latest tirade.

But most importantly, Twitter is beautiful. Its bird vector logo is awesome- it's memorable, clean, and can easily be linked to the Twitter brand. The actual site is cleverly designed, using different shades of blue. Maybe I'm biased, because blue is my favorite color, but if it were any other color it just wouldn't be Twitter.

Something that puts the beauty of the site in jeopardy is the ability for users to actually make their own layouts. This can be good (sometimes people put attractive women as their backgrounds) but it can also be bad (sometimes people put ugly women as their backgrounds sometimes people who don't know how to create clean looking graphics end up making their page an eye sore).

Next I will talk about my own site. Well, I didn't code the site (one of my buddies did), but I did make the graphics.

You can find it here: http://abscure.net

It works because it's simple. I want the people who visit our site to either go to our blog our look at our portfolio of games. The first thing a user will notice is the giant "Blog" or "Games" link. Thus, it's the first think people will notice when they visit the site.

I used some actual graphics from one of my games as a theme for the site. I think this works well, and it also gives the user a taste of what the games look like. If for some reason the user didn't know that it was a games site when they clicked the link, they will figure it out ASAP.

Thanks for reading.