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The FWA Wallpaper Revisited

Steve — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:53:57 +0000

The Favourite Website Awards (The FWA), is a popular industry recognised internet award program and inspirational portal, established in May of 2000. To promote The FWA, designers from around the world are commissioned to design unique and inspiring desktop wallpaper for your computer, available for download. While The FWA logo is a common denominator in each of these pieces, the various designers and artists share their design direction and voicing. All the designs are available for download in a myriad of sizes, appropriate for your particular monitor resolution, including iPhone & mobile.

We did a post presenting some of our personal favorites some-time ago. It was well received, being one of our most popular posts of all-time, so we compiled some of our favorite wallpapers again. We hope these curated wallpaper’s inspire you. Feel free to download them or click the link below to go directly to The FWA site. Be sure to leave a comment and tell us your favorite one!

Littleton Cyclery 2.0

Steve — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:16:10 +0000

The highly awaited launch of the New Littleton Cyclery v2.0 is now here! We are all very pleased with the end design and implementation of the project. The site remained faithful to the cleanliness and simplicity of the Littleton Cyclery brand, which we conceived and helped bring into fruition a few years back. Our vision and objectives for this project was to create an innovative, highly functional and informative site, while preserving a longstanding tradition of creativity and motion, deviating from the typical bike-shop website you might expect. Moreover, this objective was achieved without using Adobe Flash, a platform typically used for creating rich internet applications, complete with creative tools and an art-board to facilitate design-forward websites and features not often realized in HTML.

Through XHTML, Java Script, Ajax, some fancy scripting, a little pixel pushing, and a magic wand, we patiently nurtured our concept into reality. The sexy one page design is deceptively complex, offering the user a simple interface with sleek movement to easily get where you need to go. We load some content dynamically in an orderly fashion that is well though-through, purposeful, and clean. This allows for maximum site content, that is organized and purposeful. Much planning and forethought went into the architecture and design of the site, allowing for everything to have a home and a purpose, and simply not allowing some features or elements to be an afterthought that is just out-of-place.

Here at Kalos Interactive, we believe that websites should be clean and clutter-free with simple navigation, so the user can have a positive experience, able to find just what they are looking for and hopefully, even enjoy the experience along the way. On this site, overtly obvious navigation and a sleek search feature is first and foremost always just where you want it, namely right in front of you. Luscious imagery is another value of ours and pictures are indeed worth a thousand words! On all our sites, we strive to use vivid imagery and photography.

We listened to you, the user, thus the site also includes a myriad of new features from social networking buttons, product brand icons & links, a job application, the unique store history (since 1955), press & awards, a new robust products section (in which you can zoom-in and almost feel the bike in your hands), fancy deep-linking, a JS share feature, a built-in blog, directions and a map, a slick active search feature, and some fancy motion. Spend some time perusing the new bike you are after, read their blog, learn about who they are, or just get directions, so you can go-ahead and give them a visit!

view site : : littletoncyclery.com | awarded : : coolhomepages.com

Favourite Website Awards

Steve — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:36 +0000

Awarding websites since June of 2000, The Favourite Website Awards (The FWA) is an abundantly astonishing accumulation of some of the best websites the world has ever seen. They describe themselves as, “An industry recognized award program and inspirational portal”. Designers and developers, from around the world, submit sites to be subjected to the assiduous scrutiny of The FWA’s varied panel of judges. The aspiring end, is the prestigious FWA website award, added web-traffic, and the glory and honor accompanying it. Design, navigation, graphics, content, and personality are the various criteria, which each site is judged against. Design however, carries a weighty forty-percent of the overall assessment, thus lending themselves to the design-forward collection of works they have become.

The FWA has curated some of the most imaginative and meticulously creative sites I have ever seen. It is fascinating to view some of the archived awarded sites and compare them, for they have an entire decade of winners at your disposal. The internet has come a long way from the simple HTML pages, rendering mostly text and images. Websites today are considerably more complex, having varied technologies including Flash, Java Script, Plugins, HTML, and others; they resemble applications once only realized on the desktop operating system.

To promote The FWA, designers from around the world are commissioned to design unique and inspiring desktop wallpaper for your computer, available for download. While The FWA logo is a common denominator in each of these pieces, the various designers and artists share their design direction and voicing, impeccably illustrated in these stupendous works. All of the designs are available for download in a myriad of sizes, appropriate for your particular monitor resolution. Additionally, this is a free service that The FWA provides for their visitors and junkies. I like to think of them as an added little bonus. Below is a sampling of some my favorite pieces. Enjoy!

visit site : : TheFWA.com