I am trying to get a list of the best webdesign companies.

I have pixelbrick.com
2advanced.com

I am looking for more


Thanks.

Forum member Tranz does good work, you can see some his stuff in the reviews forum.


Lats...

We highly recommend Azaloth Productions. :D Andrei did a fantastic job on our site, he was very friendly and easy to work with, and he's definitely talented. He is a member here ("Azaloth") and has his portfolio at www.azaloth.com.

I think that guy Adam who did mehost.com and dot5hosting.com is pretty talented. He's located at http://www.i3optic.com/ I believe.

Kelsey @ www.graphical-edge.com dose some nice work, Its not pixelbrick.com, but its pretty good...

There is a member here, genaldi, who owns a watch site, http://www.genaldi.com which always gives me the gooby-boobies. IMHO it is a very nice job, one of the better sites I've seen, very classy, and with just the right amount of bell and whistles to give it spunk.

I say this even though this member lives in Southern California and yet he still hasn't given me a watch... :bawling:

Parts of his design were done by another member here designNYC (http://webhostingtalk.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=14386) which you might want to consider as well.

I also like the ones you mentioned at the first post.

whoswe.com (http://www.whoswe.com)

estudio.com (http://www.estudio.com)

http://www.directpixel.com is first on my list :D

one day I will be one of them- I am up late working on it as we speak. :cool:

OMG there are some nice sites among them, although i don't like flash a lot. But whoswe.com really kicks ass.

Here's my short list:

http://www.method.com
http://www.frogdesign.com
http://www.flat.com
http://www.hellodesign.com
http://www.papermedia.com
http://www.metadesign.com

As you can see, my tastes run towards the corporate/art-studentesque side of web design. I would give my left nut (or right one for that matter) to work for any of these companies - alas, I'm stuck in school to finish my degree...

I came across this when I was browsing on directpixel.com...
http://www.liquisoft.com

Beats my design right off :bawling:

PixelBrick.com & Adam..

Somebody here mentioned Chunk (http://www.chunkideas.com/) once, great design.

How you answer this depends on what you want...

Many of us tend to focus on Flash/Shockwave graphics, but appearance is not typically the most important criterion.

Few firms can do it all (roughly decreasing importance):

Web promotion (no one sees it, without this).
Intuitive interface with clear navigational features (people leave, without it).
Quick load times (ditto).
Helping the customer understand how it can help their business, by selling products and cutting costs.
Back-end programming.
Editing/writing copy (no spelling & grammar & punctuation errors; it never ceases to amaze me how many firms don't seem to care about the image they're projecting).
Attractive, interesting layout & graphics
HTML that adheres to the standards, and compatible with multiple browsers. (The only reason I rank this so low is that MSIE has such a huge share of the market, despite new players like Opera, Mozilla and the not-ready-for-prime-time Amaya.)

Some firms offer flashy designs that are attractive and flashy (no pun intended), but are confusing to many users, have poor navigation, download slowly for non-broadband customers, are full of grammatical & spelling errors...

Other sites are downright primitive, visually, yet they have a natural interface and solid database programming to handle the onslaught of e-commerce transactions. E.g., if the audience is primarily pocket-protector-type engineers, and the goal is merely for them to order a product, then a simple form may suffice, and making it cool and flashy may actually hurt the number of orders!

A paragraph is often worth a thousand pictures. (Most of us have heard conclusions supporting the reverse, but they were based on flawed studies. Have you heard that only 7% of communication is verbal? :rolleyes: Would you learn more about presidential candidates (or prime ministers) if they drew pictures, or if they wrote out their answers to a debate? Obviously the best is to see it and hear it, but you get an awful lot from just seeing the words. Or try this: turn off the volume on your TV vs. listening but not watching your TV. My point: the textual content on your site is more important than just helping you in certain search engines. The content needs to be sufficient to meet your client's needs, and you need to ensure that the grammer & spalling are good nuff, too.

My 12 cents.

(c) 2002 Apex Web Solutions

Originally posted by Chicken
There is a member here, genaldi, who owns a watch site, http://www.genaldi.com which always gives me the gooby-boobies. IMHO it is a very nice job, one of the better sites I've seen, very classy, and with just the right amount of bell and whistles to give it spunk.

I say this even though this member lives in Southern California and yet he still hasn't given me a watch... :bawling:

Parts of his design were done by another member here designNYC (http://webhostingtalk.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=14386) which you might want to consider as well.

I also like the ones you mentioned at the first post. Agreed, they have a great site. I like the fact that the watch is synched with your time... Pretty cool. I live in Southern California as well, I think I deserve a free watch too... :stickout

I agree completely with TexasMan...

"Some firms offer flashy designs that are attractive and flashy (no pun intended), but are confusing to many users, have poor navigation, download slowly for non-broadband customers, are full of grammatical & spelling errors...

Other sites are downright primitive, visually, yet they have a natural interface and solid database programming to handle the onslaught of e-commerce transactions. E.g., if the audience is primarily pocket-protector-type engineers, and the goal is merely for them to order a product, then a simple form may suffice, and making it cool and flashy may actually hurt the number of orders! "

You really want to use a development team that knows how to program. Go with someone who can function without a WYSIWYG application. I love TM's use of "flashy." Very appropriate. Too much flash and not enough substance.

A WHT member, designNYC (Satya), has just finished one site for us and is working on a new Perfecthost site, now. I would like to keep his design talents to myself, but that would not be fair to him. He has amazing abilities and I strongly recommend him. Satya has been a real "stand-up" guy, tailoring everything to our liking. He mixes Flash with good design basics. Several hosts have sites developed by him.

-Lamar

Originally posted by Perfecthost
A WHT member, designNYC (Satya), has just finished one site for us and is working on a new Perfecthost site, now. I would like to keep his design talents to myself, but that would not be fair to him. He has amazing abilities and I strongly recommend him. Satya has been a real "stand-up" guy, tailoring everything to our liking. He mixes Flash with good design basics. Several hosts have sites developed by him.

-Lamar His full name is Satyakam, I believe. And I second the fact that he has great flash skills.

Originally posted by Chicken
There is a member here, genaldi, who owns a watch site, http://www.genaldi.com which always gives me the gooby-boobies. IMHO it is a very nice job, one of the better sites I've seen, very classy, and with just the right amount of bell and whistles to give it spunk.


That's a very nice site. Uses what I call "tasteful flash" - just the right amount to enhance the site. Nice watches too - I'm in the market for a new watch so I'll keep that site in mind.

I don't particularly like sites that are built completely on flash. They take too long to load especially on dialup.

One in particular that was mentioned here - was taking so long to load I went and watched a bit of TV. I came back to find it fully loaded.. then when I proceeded to navigate the loading started again so I left the site.

--Shaun

A good design company out of my city is http://www.acromediainc.com/

Check out their profile, lots of really nice sites.

Originally posted by Chicken
There is a member here, genaldi, who owns a watch site, http://www.genaldi.com which always gives me the gooby-boobies. IMHO it is a very nice job, one of the better sites I've seen, very classy, and with just the right amount of bell and whistles to give it spunk.

I say this even though this member lives in Southern California and yet he still hasn't given me a watch... :bawling:

Parts of his design were done by another member here designNYC (http://webhostingtalk.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=14386) which you might want to consider as well.

I also like the ones you mentioned at the first post.

Thanks for the kinds words on my site, Chicken, and the others who commented on it, it's pretty gratifying to see others who like it also. The company who made it (listed on the bottom of the pages on my site) is based in Moldova by the way, and were excellent to work with. What they created in the end, was better than I originally had expected. I'm not sure who that designer you mentioned is, does he do work for the company who created my site or something?

As for free watches, I sure wish I could hand them out to everyone who asks :), but unfortunately with my financial situation, I'm barely surviving month to month as it is....

Thanks again,

David

pixelbrick seems to do a good job...