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Well, shucks, I guess we can't complain about the redesign anymore. The "Ozy and Millie" site was nominated for "Outstanding Website Design" in the Webcartoonist's Choice Awards this year. <a href='http://www.ccawards.com/2005ceremony/website.htm' target='_blank'>(Clickie!)</a><br><br>It didn't win, but still. Although that is a very strange thing to be nominated for.

Hm. Well the site is very easy to use...

Well, the current website design design is close to what's in these days... (simplicity)<br><br>I'm not complaining about it, anyways.

They must have thought it fitting to the zennish simplicity of O&M. Me, I liked the site best when it had the title characters overlooking a cityscape, but at least the present design beats the previous coffee-and-dirt stripes.

Actually, I kind of miss those stripes. At Least <a href='http://houserules.tk/' target='_blank'>House Rules</a> keeps the stripes, albeit in a bright blue..

My favorite was the 2001 style.

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<!--QuoteBegin-Octan+Jul 13 2005, 11:06 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Octan @ Jul 13 2005, 11:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Well, shucks, I guess we can't complain about the redesign anymore. The "Ozy and Millie" site was nominated for "Outstanding Website Design" in the Webcartoonist's Choice Awards this year. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> That amuses me, because I've always considered myself kind of a subpar web designer. Maybe I'm not anymore. <!--emo&:arr:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... pirate.png' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pirate.png' /><!--endemo-->

Or maybe it is that you can't do the complex stuff and that makes it so your website easy to use. Making it a great webpage through subpar webpage design.

<!--QuoteBegin-ShadOtterdan+Jul 15 2005, 04:37 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (ShadOtterdan @ Jul 15 2005, 04:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Or maybe it is that you can't do the complex stuff and that makes it so your website easy to use. Making it a great webpage through subpar webpage design. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> It's deliberately simple and minimalist. I figure, use what you do know. <!--emo&:glomp:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /glomp.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='glomp.gif' /><!--endemo-->

The site's been the same since I got there, which is great as I know where everything is. Some comic sites (I'm not naming names) are god-awful to use which is a pity, because most of their stuff is great.<br><br>Kudos for the minimalist style man. <!--emo&:wag:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ailwag.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tailwag.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Could it be a good design by not being a good design?<br><br>Yow, I'm not used to seeing dragon glomps!

<!--QuoteBegin-Tom Flapwell+Jul 15 2005, 05:15 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Tom Flapwell @ Jul 15 2005, 05:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Could it be a good design by not being a good design?<br><br>Yow, I'm not used to seeing dragon glomps! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I pity the organs on the recieving end of that.

I like the design, as others have said, simplicity can be good.<br><br>I hate Yahoo's main page because of this, too many things going on there.

<!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Jul 15 2005, 07:18 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jul 15 2005, 07:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-ShadOtterdan+Jul 15 2005, 04:37 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (ShadOtterdan @ Jul 15 2005, 04:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Or maybe it is that you can't do the complex stuff and that makes it so your website easy to use. Making it a great webpage through subpar webpage design. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>It's deliberately simple and minimalist. I figure, use what you do know. <!--emo&:glomp:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /glomp.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='glomp.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> You know, I might as well admit that I've actually tried to emulate the look of the O&M site when I had to do a current events page for my school's website. Mine didn't come out looking so good, though.<br><br>Hey, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?<br><br>And as a personal observation - a lot of people have a tendency to not realize how good their work actually is. Like with a graphics design class I took - I'd always discover something wrong with my work during evaluations and could have sworn I was going to get 70 or 75% - at the end of the course, it turned out I had 95%.