Comments on: Best-Designed Sites on the Web by Popular Vote

Best-Designed Sites on the Web by Popular Vote

MattS — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:14:25 -0800

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.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:20:40 -0800

CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not. Except without the hot.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:21:19 -0800

Damn you Jason Kotke!!!!

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:23:39 -0800

Um, I mean Kottke. I also love the fact the MeFi beats AskMe. Go blue!

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:25:22 -0800

"Hot babes," "hot websites," and then the "screenshot on a mac" remark... where's the NSFW tag?

By: MattS

MattS — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:28:30 -0800

Yes, the blue of MeFi is much better design than the green of AskMe.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:32:44 -0800

The "worst ever" weren't good, but they weren't the worst ever either.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:44:19 -0800

Mefi would score even higher if it were black text on white. You know it would.

By: hoverboards don't work on water

hoverboards don't work on water — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:55:32 -0800

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.

By: jquinby

jquinby — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:00:47 -0800

I keep picking the losers, so I should probably stop playing.

By: camcgee

camcgee — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:52:35 -0800

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.

By: MattS

MattS — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:05:25 -0800

Anyone can submit them.

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:49:52 -0800

Anyone can submit them. This is gonna be fun...

By: oddman

oddman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:49:27 -0800

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.

By: ook

ook — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:26:37 -0800

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!

By: garlic

garlic — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:05:20 -0800

ook -- that was awesome.

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:38:34 -0800

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.