ยป SIN: Comments?
I’m prototyping a new site for my company, SIN, to be released and sent out to clients shortly. I’ve put it up here to test. If you could comment on it that’d be great. Refresh a couple of times — it’s dynamic, using the same code as our rotating 404s to pick a background (one of which you might recognize) under the lightly-alpha’d content layer.
The background images are resizing poorly (they have resolution problems), but I’m working on it. I’m more interested in your take on the minimalism of it — I’m thinking of doing something very similar for MPF eventually.
The links won’t work either, but you’ll get an idea of my business lines 
Try resizing the site — it shouldn’t break.
To-test: IE, iPhone, other platforms. Let me know if you see something busticated on your viewing platform, and if you could include a screenshot that’d help. Special thanks to Geoff for testing on Fox under Linux and over his projector.
I dig the minimalist aesthetically, but it feels a bit like a splash screen: users these days are used to getting a lot more information when they hit the top of your domain, not just a menu.
The first background I had was black & white and it totally stuck with me. How about going b&w for all of them?
Jared
20 Feb 10 at 9:33 pm
At first I was like, wtf are you doing with this table? but then I saw it resizes. Where’d you find this trick?
Love or hate MS, but Bing does a good job of incorporating big images. You might want to pick images that don’t have much going on where the menu goes.
Mike Lin
21 Feb 10 at 10:21 pm
@Mike: I got it from these three pages. Mostly the last one, which I still had to clean up a bunch (and which also displays incorrectly in MobileSafari). I was inspired by Die Antwoord’s site.
Jack
22 Feb 10 at 11:35 am