Best-Designed Sites on the Web by Popular Vote

December 11, 2007 7:14 AM

CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not.Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites. It's actually a pretty nice way to check out good design on the web.

It's also the key combo to do a screenshot on a mac.

posted by MattS (16 comments total)

CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not. Except without the hot.
posted by The Bellman at 7:20 AM on December 11, 2007

Damn you Jason Kotke!!!!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:21 AM on December 11, 2007

Um, I mean Kottke. I also love the fact the MeFi beats AskMe. Go blue!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:23 AM on December 11, 2007

"Hot babes," "hot websites," and then the "screenshot on a mac" remark... where's the NSFW tag?
posted by three blind mice at 7:25 AM on December 11, 2007

Yes, the blue of MeFi is much better design than the green of AskMe.
posted by MattS at 7:28 AM on December 11, 2007

The "worst ever" weren't good, but they weren't the worst ever either.
posted by DU at 7:32 AM on December 11, 2007

Mefi would score even higher if it were black text on white. You know it would.
posted by ardgedee at 7:44 AM on December 11, 2007

Just like hot or not, this equates web design with visual design, but anyone who's had to actually use a website (or a person) knows that looking pretty is about 15% of what makes it good.
posted by hoverboards don't work on water at 7:55 AM on December 11, 2007 [4 favorites has favorites]

I keep picking the losers, so I should probably stop playing.
posted by jquinby at 9:00 AM on December 11, 2007

Who is submitting these sites? Several of the worst are parked domain pages -- one of the worst is just a text rendering of 43 Folders' RSS feed.
posted by camcgee at 9:52 AM on December 11, 2007

Anyone can submit them.
posted by MattS at 10:05 AM on December 11, 2007

Anyone can submit them.

This is gonna be fun...
posted by wendell at 11:49 AM on December 11, 2007

There were a few times (Craigslist) where people seem to ignore the complexity of the information being displayed and just chose the prettier picture.

These bastards ruined my chance at a perfect score.
posted by oddman at 12:49 PM on December 11, 2007

Right, it's possible to determine the quality of a site's design by looking at a screenshot of its homepage. Riiiiight.

Coming soon: judge-a-book-by-its-cover.com!
posted by ook at 1:26 PM on December 11, 2007

ook -- that was awesome.
posted by garlic at 2:05 PM on December 11, 2007

Sounds more like "web pages that suck" only without any of the things that make me want to go look at web pages that suck.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 6:38 PM on December 11, 2007