[Ben]

Hi,

Thank you to all of you who have submitted a website for July. We have created a shortlist of websites for you to vote for.

Please find below a list of 10 websites that you can vote to be the website of the month for July.

There have been stacks of nominations for July but we have managed to get it to a shortlist of 10. If you are not succesful this time around please re-submit your website next month.

Remember:
If you click "View Results (Null Vote)" - that counts as your vote, so you won't actually be able to vote on anyone.
You only have 1 vote, so make it count!

Voting will close on 19th July 2008.

Entries in Alphabetical order (by username):

AVVStudios
www.avvstudios.com

Ben Hodgson
http://ben.someaddress.net

Cabbage
www.benanderton.co.uk

Curvball
www.cervencotter.com

ElanMan
www.elanwebdesign.co.uk

Gizmo 76
www.randpdesign.co.uk

Helen
www.iridium-design.co.uk

Notbanksy
www.rabbitwho.com

Peartree
www.peartreeuk.com

TruePresence
www.truepresence.co.uk

Good Luck!

[AVVStudios]

Wooo... let voting begin

[Rob]

I've voted. It looks like it's going to be a tight one this month!

[EggMan]

Yes peartree!

[TruePresence]

Wow... tough competition!

I would just like to congratulate you all for your great designs. Well done

[jamest]

Some good designs there, Peartree won it for me.

[Gizmo 76]

Boy, that was tough!!

Great designs thoughout the whole list of sites

Got it down to Ben Hodgson, Helen, and Peartree, but in the end, I went with Helen, love the colour scheme and it's individual look.

[Peartree]

Good luck & well done everyone - There is some tough competition

[Dizi]

I voted for someone but I will not say who

[ElanMan]

Great stuff everyone!
Really good competition this month!
If I hadn't voted for myself , my vote would be for Gizmo.

[chaoslight]

Great job everyone, I just voted.. Good luck to everyone

[notbanksy]

Great collection of sites everyone, very nice work. I've cast my vote </bites nails>

[Scott S]

Voted

Had to be Helen this month, but it was definitely a close thing!

Congratulations to everyone who made it to the short list!

One of these days, I might even submit one....

[rjdejong]

Defenitly Pear Tree, Awesome design.

Did you draw those headers yourself in Illustrator?

[Mihai Georgescu]

Tough choice ... voted ... good luck everyone

[headcoat]

rjdejong, on Jul 6 2008, 22:07, said:

Did you draw those headers yourself in Illustrator?

Good question???

My votes in, great sites all.

[wizely]

Just to give that broken record another spin - blimey this one was tough! Not only were all the designs great, but all so different - that's what made it hard for me to pick. Good stuff and good luck, whoever wins it'll be a great design.

[tigerlabs]

Rob, on Jul 6 2008, 12:12, said:

I've voted. It looks like it's going to be a tight one this month!

Who'd you vote for?




I narrowed it down to 2 and went with Gizmo. Maaaaan you sure know how to use CSS!

Excellent website!

[Helen]

I cast my vote yesterday. I didn't vote for myself, but I'm not going to say who I voted for

[Curvball]

Well, it looks like this one is going to be even tougher than I had envisioned... lol


Good luck to everybody, some great sites in the mix.

[Badmotherz]

I have come out of hiding to cast my vote...the world stops turning momentarily.

[TFM4th]

aww I never made the finals next month maybe. ooook now who to vote for, so many good ones


*EDIT* Voted. was between gizmo, Curvball for me.

[DarkNotes]

Helen won it for me!
But i was tough between Helen and Peartree!

[ZigPress]

Ben, on Jul 6 2008, 19:22, said:

There have been stacks of nominations ofr July but we have managed to get it to a shortlist of 10. If you are not succesful this time around please re-submit your website next month.

Safe in the knowledge that you're (in the opinions of a few unnamed people) 11th at best out of July's submissions...

I think I'll pass.

[ErisDS]

Most of the websites this month are awesome.

I have a concern with Gizmo's site as the waves at the bottom are a trace of a Hokusai and I can't see a credit anywhere which I feel should be there, I don't recognise the rest of the doodles but are they traces too?

[Helen]

ErisDS, on Jul 8 2008, 20:00, said:

I have a concern with Gizmo's site as the waves at the bottom are a trace of a Hokusai and I can't see a credit anywhere which I feel should be there, I don't recognise the rest of the doodles but are they traces too?

I'm so glad you said that! I have been racking my brains for days trying to work out where I have seen it before. I can now rest at ease

[Gizmo 76]

ErisDS, on Jul 8 2008, 20:00, said:

Most of the websites this month are awesome.

I have a concern with Gizmo's site as the waves at the bottom are a trace of a Hokusai and I can't see a credit anywhere which I feel should be there, I don't recognise the rest of the doodles but are they traces too?

It is indeed the famous wave, i'm yet to put that project on my site, but basically we had a retro packaging design unit, and mine was based on woodcut pictures from that era, i've got to take some pictures of the boxes I made - Big Mac, Cup and Fries So as soon as I get the pictures taken and sorted, now I got my final pieces back last week, I'll have that unit and another up on the site with a short description.

The other pictures are a character from one of my animations, and a background from another, both done in illustrator...

Cheers for the votes everyone, well chuffed

[Curvball]

just wondering, on what basis do you cast your vote? Is it the actual design, coding, is the design trendy enough, friendship with the designer?

[jamest]

Design. This is the web design forums after all.

I do like your site cosmetically, but I prefer light coloured sites (ironically mine isn't).

[notbanksy]

I vote after considering design, content, accessibility but usually don't look at code as I assume they are all coded to the highest standards (rightly or wrongly).

[Helen]

Asthetics is most important to me. then the functionality. I don't look at code either ( I check for tables of course)

[notbanksy]

Helen, on Jul 9 2008, 15:48, said:

( I check for tables of course)

Because you are addicted to banging your head on them!

[headcoat]

Curvball, on Jul 9 2008, 11:42, said:

just wondering, on what basis do you cast your vote? Is it the actual design, coding, is the design trendy enough, friendship with the designer?

I think this varies depending on the individual voting Curv. I'd also add peer opinion and individual vogue (that may be the same as trendy dependent on ones defintion of trendy i.e. my definition of Punk is hugely different to yours) to the list.

Personally I've yet to vote for the winner (ok Rob excluded cos we all love him and he's super duper ;-))...so clearly I'm not with the WDF 'vogue'.

There's really no right and wrong here, design is so subjective, there's nowt accounts for taste (old northern proverb) and THE BIRDIE SONG got to number one as I always console myself.

That's not to take away from any winners I didn't vote for.

good luck all



Edit: Just looked at voting so far and to be honest I'm astonished that Ben Hodgson has no votes yet - it's my second choice.

[Peartree]

Did you mean me Rob or Mr Hawkes? haha

[headcoat]

Peartree, on Jul 9 2008, 19:32, said:

Did you mean me Rob or Mr Hawkes? haha

ah yes there is two robs just my devious way of not letting anyone know who i voted for!

[Helen]

notbanksy, on Jul 9 2008, 15:50, said:

Because you are addicted to banging your head on them!

He he yes! But don't worry, where there is no sense, there is no feeling

[Gizmo 76]

I'm still quite new to this whole web game, so have alot more to learn about coding, and the right way of doing things before I could really bring that into my choice... So over the two months I've voted so far I've based my decision on the actual site appearance, and the usability...

[Curvball]

Interesting to hear everybody's thoughts on how they vote, thanks

[DarkNotes]

yup it is