In the spirit of collaboration, let's see if we can make a good resource! I personally need this because I will have to make a site for our company's iPhone applications.
I feel there are two fundamentally different types of website -- one to promote a product, the other is about being a community in itself. They have different goals and different visual designs.
There are some designs I really like, such as gist.com ... so I put them up there. Do you know any great examples of effective product website designs? What about social website designs? What do they get right?
Don't say it here, put it in the doc, please! We could all use it.
The document is read-only at the moment so maybe someone can add this later (I will forget) - friend of mine yesterday raved about this PSD to XHTML service:
I've tried a few alternatives in the past with mixed results. Used one service that was great and then ramped up their price later, another that took too long, and another that used a layout framework with which we weren't familiar.
You like gist.com so much you added it to the page twice! Even where it doesn't make sense. EGreg, you wouldn't happen to be Greg Meyer of Gist.com, would you? https://gist.com/greg
I hate to accuse you of surreptitious self-promotion.
I just like gist because of the product and I like the site. But what I would really like is more examples of site LIKE that, with large spaces across the top and calls to action. Steven bao makes pretty nice use of that design. Maybe I should put wufoo.com there
I feel there are two fundamentally different types of website -- one to promote a product, the other is about being a community in itself. They have different goals and different visual designs.
There are some designs I really like, such as gist.com ... so I put them up there. Do you know any great examples of effective product website designs? What about social website designs? What do they get right?
Don't say it here, put it in the doc, please! We could all use it.