Defaulty Minimalist
I recently got a compliment on a style I was working on, on one of those free hosted forums. The only thing I had done with that style was create a blank style, with no CSS. I had only changed three icons and added a border-radius of red and black around the categories, just to see if it would work. I was told it was very clean and easy on the eyes.
I read from some admins that they haven't yet found the style they're looking for yet. None of the ones they see, and that I'm looking at with them, are "clean" enough. Now to my eyes, these styles they're calling bust are downright bland and ordinary. Mostly they're default with a colors and icons changed. They say that they'd like to see something simpler, even simpler than default.
My question is, what are you guys looking for? Is all the CSS stripped out really what you mean when you say "clean"? To my eyes, the default, and default inspired skins are really the barest bones you can get when it comes to styling. Developers do it because they're more interested in getting the software to you than the graphics, and they know you going to customize it 99% of the time anyway. Coders do it with their sites because, and this is just my theory, because they're not really into graphic design to greater or lesser degrees. So how much "cleaner" can a site be than default? Plain white on black with a couple of colors?
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10-06-2011, 07:59 AM
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