Site of the Week (October 16th - October 23rd)

[kirupa]

If you wish to be considered for this week, please read the summary of rules:

1) Reply by the end of October 23rd to be considered for this week's award.

2) Include the URL and your email address.

Only the webmaster/creator of the site can submit.

Only one submission per person per week.

Submissions are capped at 10 each week, so don't wait or hesitate until the last minute. Entries beyond the 10 entry limit will not be eligible for the SOTW for that particular week.

Include a brief synopsis of your site inluding its purpose, or maybe some features you wouldn't want anyone to miss.

3) Your site does not have to be full Flash to be eligible. Whilst you still must employ Flash to some extent, we are also looking for the overall design and usability of your site, not just your Flash skills.

4) While it is understood that sites are perpetually under construction, please submit only complete sites. Do not submit a site that is less than 80% finished.

5) Submissions must be actual websites with sections and content. Examples of ineligible include (but not limited to) flash games, movies, etc.

6) There will be a private poll among the moderators and a winner will be announced.

7) No critiques or feedback is allowed in the submission thread. If you wish a concentrated critique of your site, you may start a thread in Site Check. However, mod critiques will be posted when a winner has been selected.

For more information or questions, please refer to the Official SOTW Rules. Once you have read and understand the rules above, you may submit your site to this thread. Sites not adhering to the rules above will be disqualified and deleted. Submitting your site is an agreement and acceptance of the rules.

Kirupa :inc:

[wii]

URL: http://wii.dk/
Mail: wii@mail.com

Wii.dk is a collection of websites and other web-related work that I have done through the last few years, in an easy to use, simple and clean Flash design.

[PoLaCo]

www.pixelstudio.info

Tight but nice i think. Hope you like it!

Made with:
Flash MX 2004
Photoshop
BG image on flash - 3D Studio Max

rui@pixelstudio.info

[wii]

Wii.dk - web design portfolio

URL: http://wii.dk/
Mail: wii@mail.com

Wii.dk is a collection of websites and other web-related work that I have done through the last few years, in an easy to use, simple and clean Flash design.

[ciecierega]

http://www.denisebiondostudio.com

email: info@denisebiondo.com

this is my portfolio website which was made using mostly flash and adobe illustrator.

:flower:

[harpox]

http://www.harpox.com

lab@harpox.com

[3d Nirvana]

My personal portfolio.

Email:info@3dnirvana.com
Link:http://www.3dnirvana.com

All Sound Effects, Music, and Background Graphics/Content created by me.

Good Luck to the rest :)
3dnirvana

[aveceva]

MotionGerm

http://www.motiongerm.com

tom@motiongerm.com

[partlyhuman]

http://www.zeldasdesigns.com/
info@partlyhuman.com

[alebic]

www.senkone.com (http://www.senkone.com/)

alen.alebic@iskorak.hr


÷ some css, javascript and flash combined...

[kristian]

Lt-design

http://www.Lt-design.com

kristian@Lt-design.com

[imbuez]

HTTP://WWW.THEROXY.CO.UK (http://www.theroxy.co.uk/)

Just a bar site i finished for a client a few weeks back for my company propeller communications Ltd ( UK ). Not all complete still waiting for some more content, but looks good all the same : )

Contact: dingley@gmail.com

[Digitalosophy]

HTTP://WWW.THEROXY.CO.UK (http://www.theroxy.co.uk/)

Just a bar site i finished for a client a few weeks back for my company propeller communications Ltd ( UK ). Not all complete still waiting for some more content, but looks good all the same : )

Contact: dingley@gmail.com

How dare you submit site of the week after submitting 69 messages to my contact form on my website. I even pm'd you and you never even bothered to answer me.

I should have banned you, but I didn't. Read this thread please
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73138

I'll be awaiting your apology, and also be lucky I didn't make your name public in that thread.

You disgust me man, I had to delete each and every entry you made on my form out of my database.

Also as a web designer you should Know i track IP's and you should know that I'm a mod.

[Adam]

Busted!!!:trout:


How dare you submit site of the week after submitting 69 messages to my contact form on my website. I even pm'd you and you never even bothered to answer me.

I should have banned you, but I didn't. Read this thread please
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73138

I'll be awaiting your apology, and also be lucky I didn't make your name public in that thread.

You disgust me man, I had to delete each and every entry you made on my form out of my database.

Also as a web designer you should Know i track IP's and you should know that I'm a mod.

[imbuez]

I dont dare mate i just did submit, dude you need to chill out. It not my fault you have a problem with your form or that people are sending you racial abuse or whatever you want to call it.

Thats a pretty lame excuse for banning me from kirupa forum because you have a hole in your website, i was just trying to make you aware of it. What has it got to do with the forums anyway?

I aolagise, but why would you have a contact form writting to a database? Its a way for peeps to send you messages not a mailing list????

Martin//..

edited by Digital - screw you, dont try and play defensive on this thread, you sent me a nasty pm instead of explaining yourself so now you gone for good.

either you or me *******

[eilsoe]

There are other ways of making people aware of holes than spamming.

[imbuez]

There are other ways of making people aware of holes than spamming.Yeh and there are otherways of sorting it out than sending me a load of abuse in my private messages!

Sorry not refering to you eilsoe

[dazao]

http://www.almalight.com

Alma light is a spanish company specialized in the design and development of indoor lighting products.
Lamps with own style and personality.

david@alvirayrodriguez.com


Good Luck to the reSt :thumb:

[ayounas]

Hmmmmmmmmmm!!!

[nessie]

http://www.mikaelnaslund.com

mikael@mikaelnaslund.com


:love:

[Samir Aghayev]

Hi, my name is Samir Aghayev. I would like you all to rate my personal website. I am a graphic designer. I hope you like my website. Here is the address:

http://www.samiraghayev.com

My email: samiraghayev@azeronline.com

Thanks to you all in advance.

Samir

[bandinopla]

Hi, I'm Bandinopla, mi site is a mix of all the thinks I do... killer ilustrations, funny flash (well, some times) and 3d pictures made by me, the site is all made in flash.
http://www.geocities.com/bandinopla

Yeas, is a free server addres, but the conten is professional so please chek it out!

[aveceva]

dont mean to be rude or ne thing, trying to discredit the competition btu i would like to point out to the moderators that Bandinopla's entry is a rip of www.tokyoplastic.com . Sorry mate, this forum is loaded completely with designers, you wont get anything past us ;)

[3d Nirvana]

how is it a rip... the only simalarity i see is that they both have 3d stuff....

[Digitalosophy]

dont mean to be rude or ne thing, trying to discredit the competition btu i would like to point out to the moderators that Bandinopla's entry is a rip of www.tokyoplastic.com . Sorry mate, this forum is loaded completely with designers, you wont get anything past us ;)
:puzzled:

Am I missing something? Please explain more.

[mudbubble]

the initial logo is almost identical - the little character spinning - looks like it was totally ripped from tokyoplastic - the main site doesnt come close to the originality and quality of tokyplastic - but that intial loading animation is spot-on tokyoplastic property.

[aveceva]

yer thats what i was getting at, exactly same concept and shizzles.

http://www.motiongerm.com/crap/poop.jpg

i dunno homies, you decide, as i said, not trying to discredit, just pointing out. Keep in mind i'm a tight *** about theses things so what i think is acceptable is diff to you :)

[rkdesign]

yer thats what i was getting at, exactly same concept and shizzles.

http://www.motiongerm.com/crap/poop.jpg

i dunno homies, you decide, as i said, not trying to discredit, just pointing out. Keep in mind i'm a tight *** about theses things so what i think is acceptable is diff to you :)


no offense,

but you're crazy.

[mudbubble]

ok - admittedly not exact - but heavily influenced - therefore not original (imho).

[rkdesign]

ok - admittedly not exact - but heavily influenced - therefore not original (imho).


Actually both are inspired heavily by very famous Japanese artists. There are several design books at your local Barnes & Nobel that showcase this trend in broad detail. You would be shocked to see how similar they both are to work that was created four years ago.

Originality is not a requirement for talent, skill or success. You can quote me on that. Web design is part of the arts, no different than music or painting. Who the hell are you (or me for that matter) to tell somone they can't be influenced DIRECTLY from one or more artists, or even better a trend?

Don't worry man, your'e young and don't realize what you're saying. It's happening in other industries too... Metallica prevents their fans from listening to their music unless they buy it...preventing other young musicians from being inspired by it, or hell even copying it. We'll see how many guitar gods that generation puts out as a result.

Do you really think your website is original? No doubt it's really great work, in fact... I LOVED IT! But it is overflowing with trends and industry influence that obviously you are not aware of.

Don't get me wrong... I AM COMPLETELY OPPOSED TO RIPPING, but this is not an example of such.

I have more to say about this, but I'll save it for my new website where I talk about 17 year old kids that think they know everything.

[mudbubble]

point taken - and i'm not as young as you think :)
OK - not a complete rip - you're right. I take it back. But it's heavy enough of an influence for at least 2 people to immediately see it and think "Hey! I've seen that before!"
My website (since you mention it) is clearly not original - I didn't design it to be - but the redesign that is in the works and will launch later this winter is totally original - perhaps even influence by something somewhere - but nothing in it will spark the response of "Hey - that looks really familiar".
But regardless - an interesting conversation nonetheless. Like I said the loading animation on the site in question is very tokyoplastic-esque - and as i said, the rest of the site is not. The original question was a request to rate the site - in terms of originality I do not rate it as high as others because it looks too much like certain graphics and animations were "borrowed" from other popular sites. The entire navigation I think I've seen on Flashkit.
If initial impressions mean anything - my initial impression when i saw the loading animation was that this person trying to replicate something that is widely popular on the web - so upon entering the main site, that's my mindset - that everything else here has been potentially "borrowed".
It's well done of course and perhaps the point is not "where" the content graphics came from - in which case I may not have a leg to stand on here.
Apologies if I offended anybody - didnt mean to - just posting an opinion.

[mudbubble]

Don't worry man, your'e young and don't realize what you're saying.
Do you really think your website is original? No doubt it's really great work, in fact... I LOVED IT! But it is overflowing with trends and industry influence that obviously you are not aware of.

I have more to say about this, but I'll save it for my new website where I talk about 17 year old kids that think they know everything.

Just to defend myself a little here - without flaming. I'm 37 years old. But young in terms of web years.
I do believe there's a lot of very original stuff on my site - namely the animation style I have been developing that is now featured on Macromedia's Devnet section as online Breeze presentations. I have seen tons of people influenced by my presentation tutorials as to how I animate in flash and I have yet to see anything even remotely similar to the animation style of the "boy" character on the mudbubble splash page - or the my monkey on my other site www.keyframer.com/contact.html.
If anything on my site has been influenced by others - it's probably the html layout - it's as generic as it gets. but like i said in previous post - there's a redesign in the works and this is just a placeholder site - requiring little maintenance and simple to update.

so not sure why my site is being attacked here - it's a bit off-topic from this thread and a bit undeserved - and not sure why i come across as a "17 year old kid".

-pees and carrots

[rkdesign]

point taken - and i'm not as young as you think :)
OK - not a complete rip - you're right. I take it back. But it's heavy enough of an influence for at least 2 people to immediately see it and think "Hey! I've seen that before!"
My website (since you mention it) is clearly not original - I didn't design it to be - but the redesign that is in the works and will launch later this winter is totally original - perhaps even influence by something somewhere - but nothing in it will spark the response of "Hey - that looks really familiar".
But regardless - an interesting conversation nonetheless. Like I said the loading animation on the site in question is very tokyoplastic-esque - and as i said, the rest of the site is not. The original question was a request to rate the site - in terms of originality I do not rate it as high as others because it looks too much like certain graphics and animations were "borrowed" from other popular sites. The entire navigation I think I've seen on Flashkit.
If initial impressions mean anything - my initial impression when i saw the loading animation was that this person trying to replicate something that is widely popular on the web - so upon entering the main site, that's my mindset - that everything else here has been potentially "borrowed".
It's well done of course and perhaps the point is not "where" the content graphics came from - in which case I may not have a leg to stand on here.
Apologies if I offended anybody - didnt mean to - just posting an opinion.

Agreed.

By the way, don't be ashamed of your age, I think it's awsome that you produce the work that you do and you are young. Be proud. Hell I'm 26 and I'm "young" compare to the ad agency gurus I take business away from.

But you can't vote yet and you can't drink either. That's what I meant by young... experience comes much later.


EDIT----

oops I looked at the wrong profile. I guess I'm too young to naviaget a website properly. :)

[mudbubble]

Agreed.

EDIT----

oops I looked at the wrong profile. I guess I'm too young to naviaget a website properly. :)

LOL - cool - i couldnt figure out why you thought i was that young - i was afraid i sounded like a spoiled little kid :)
well - you made some good points and i agree with you - thanks for the clarification.

btw - your site is very nicely done - got some high quality work on there - very nice.

[dykespaul]

http://www.tmaglobal.com

paul.dykes@tmaglobal.com

[prettygirl]

well....i think every artist is impressed by someone in his life so he get interest to build something and to join the same field....so is it a big thing if his site resembles some part of another site?????well, if it is upto me .....thumbs are up for u.....enjoy yourslef and keep working on ur ideas........

[3d Nirvana]

the only simalartiy I see is that they are both done with cell shading..... how is a evil rabit thinngy like a japanise doohicky?

oh well....

[Digitalosophy]

Sry guys, i'm a tight *** to about rips, but i'm sorry to say, you guys must be looking at something i'm not esp, to come out and say it's a rip.

[mudbubble]

it was the very first impression i had - having already been familiar with tokyoplastic.com - same exact con cept in terms of having a character like that, on a turntable with some sort of mechanical device shaped like that - i do believe version 1 of tokyoplastic had something that was much similar - not that version 2 has been launched - it's a bit different. But to me, there's this is clearly a case of the artist having been to tokypplastic.com, seeing something they liked and making something extremely similar. The quality of the graphics looks incredibly optimized to the poin where the vectors are blown apart - for some reason, this seems suspect to me compared to the very clean graphics withtin the main site - it just looks like it was ripped from tokyoplastic - possibly version 1 and they tried to edit it - possibly by importing the SWF they retrieved from their browser's cache folder.
I could be way off about this - and if wrong - i really apologize - i'm a fan of tokyoplastic and this was my initial reaction. Feedback was requested and therefore given.
can you definately visit that site and tokyoplastic and still say that the artist wasn't at least heavily influenced? as discussed earlier - being heavily influenced by something is totally fine - but create something while under the influence of something else - to the point where more than 1 person easliy recognized where the influence came from just has to say something. not sure what though anymore.
i have shown this to several fellow developers i know and they all had the same reaction - they all immediately mentioned tokyplastic.
so my feedback here is - it's ok to be influenced - but it's another to be original - whether tokyoplastic is original or not - it's certainly the only site of its kind that i have come across in all my years. it's easily one of the most unique sites on the web. to emulate it so closely can only bring such critique.

[Digitalosophy]

Emulate what so closely?

I can understand maybe saying the intro is similar, but come on now, the designs are so different from eachother to say the site is a rip is absurd. :)

Not trying to argue or put your point of views down, but you will always find something similar about 2 or more sites.

Also keep in mind, great sites like Tokyo, 2A, etc are there for inspriration, it's what makes us try harder, and try new things.


:)

btw: you have one cool *** site :thumb:

[mudbubble]

i think i'm doing a poor job of making my point. but first i wanna say i think everyone is correct in saying that it's not a "rip" of someone else's work. It clearly isn't. My only point is that, upon seeing the site in question - the 3D spinning logo immediately made me think of something i had seen previously on another site - that site being tokyoplastic.com - who has recently launched version 2 of their work. I believe at this point that tokyoplastic's version 1 site had something extremely similar to the work in question because my initial reaction was that i had definately seen this exact animation before.
Upon entering the main page of the site in question i was surprised to see graphics (spinning 3D cube navigation) that clearly, to me, did not look like the same person executed it. The 3D evil bunny is extremely compressed/optimised and in a vectorial way - overly messy in its execution. The main site is crisp and clean and very different in overall style compared to the preloader.

all these initial responses makes me believe that something a little suspect may be going on.

and thanks for your kind words about my site.

[mudbubble]

we are talking about this right?:
http://www.geocities.com/bandinopla/home.htm

[Digitalosophy]

Check your pm

[aveceva]

wow, sorry that i started a bit of a "i hate you" and a "but i love you" kinda thing :( Didnt mean to upset people but i jsut wanted to basically say that it reminded me heavily of tokyoa plastic and as mudbubble said (btw, i still watch your cartoons on FOX!) it was the first thing that came to my mind, it's teh exact same concept.

Anyways, lets just stop posting these messages and let this stay as a SOTW thread..

[rkdesign]

wow, sorry that i started a bit of a "i hate you" and a "but i love you" kinda thing :( Didnt mean to upset people but i jsut wanted to basically say that it reminded me heavily of tokyoa plastic and as mudbubble said (btw, i still watch your cartoons on FOX!) it was the first thing that came to my mind, it's teh exact same concept.

Anyways, lets just stop posting these messages and let this stay as a SOTW thread..

that's ridiculous. "its the exact same concept" ??????? You obviously don't know what the hell you're talking about. Everyone in here agrees that it shares similar trends, just like motiongerm.com does.

(HEAVILY I MIGHT ADD)

PS -mudbubble, apparently I got you confused with aveceva. The post that I directed to you was meant for him.

[fabfab]

SIMONCIONI - SOUND ENGINEER+MUSICIAN

http://www.simoncioni.com/
info@advgroup.it

[kirupa]

wow - 1,082 thread views and the voting nor the results have even been posted yet :P

In the future, we should all try to keep the SOTW threads as uncluttered as possible. There are several other forums such as Random or Forum Guidelines were these issues can be dealt with.

[mudbubble]

my bad kirupa.

[aveceva]

Just step away man, no need for a fight. Directing posts at me, pft. Yer like mb said, my bad kirupa, i was just trying to mention something i noticed, but i see rk has taken it personally, like i stole his underpants and ate them.

[ptaei]

This is the Interactive Flash Site for Medcin , the leading patented Artificial Intelligence software for EMS by MediComp International:

www.medcin.com (http://www.medcin.com)


Designed by HindSite Interactive, Inc.
info@hindsiteinteractive.com

[KaZ]

This is the Interactive Flash Site for Medcin , the leading patented Artificial Intelligence software for EMS by MediComp International:

www.medcin.com (http://www.medcin.com/)


Designed by HindSite Interactive, Inc.
info@hindsiteinteractive.comjust my observation, when i tryed to visit site it held me up for about a min trying to detect speed all i hear was click,click,click was clicking fast trying to detect my speed, im on broadband also when the site finally stoped clicking and went into site when you click launch i get page not found.

anyone else have this issue?

[aveceva]

jesus can people count? I know we try not to mention it every week but cmon! This thread is 4 pages long! I THINK 10 submissions have passed!

[kirupa]

hehe - only the first 10 valid entries are considered anyway :) On another note, the results will be posted shortly!

[kirupa]

After the voting, the results are as follows:

polaco 0%
wii 0%
cie 0%
harpox 0%
3d nirvana 0 0%
aveceva 50.00%
partlyhuman 0 0%
alebic 0%
kristian 25.00%
imbuez 25.00%

Congratulations to aveceva for winning this week's SOTW! You will be featured on the main page of kirupa.com for this week. You may also post a graphical award from this page: http://www.kirupa.com/gallery/awards.htm
Good job to all the participants. One of the valuable aspects of SOTW is to get valuable feedback about your site and get an idea of how well it stands beside some of the best on the web. Mod critiques will be posted shortly.

Kirupa :pirate3:

[aveceva]

hey thanks a lot kirupa and mods! Wanted to get this for along time now :D:D

[wii]

Well deserved aveceva - I just knew you would win this one, looking through the sites.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.