Welcome to part two of my sort of rant about the new style/look of Popomundo. For most parts it would seem that the developers cleaned up the major nuisances about which I posted a few days back. Mainly the navigation, which has now received a background so that it isn’t any more painful to look at. It could however use some better(read: more) spacing between the links.
The main annoyance still remains though. Even though I’m willing to bet that the artist who made these probably put in a lot of time in making these, and some of them are really great. The most of them are just horrible, not from design point of view, but from the idea behind it. Each city in Popomundo has its own banner, and the one above is for Amsterdam. These banners are supposed to represent each city. And sadly most of the city banners are just wrong, at best heavy handed on stereotyping. I wish that more thought had been put into these, because the effort that was put into the drawings themselves is great.
Having said that, the new style with the new fixes has been growing on me slowly. I really like the expanded areas for user images. But there’s still more that could be done to improve it. Quite a few large bits of wasted empty space in the middle of the design, and not enough separation of content so it clashes with each other.
And I’m not even going to say anything about the HTML/CSS(or lack thereof), because that’s one major mess up they made. I mean how can you spend so much time on making a design for the new decade and completely forget about bringing the code up to standards as well?
