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Inspired: Chris Spooner

Something a little different this time. Rather than looking at one particular website I have decided to look at a selection of websites by a particular person. The person I have chosen for this event owns several popular blogs including Blog.SpoonGraphics and Line 25. These website’s are the work of Chris Spooner (@chrisspooner).

I guess the most logical place to begin would be with his personal Blog, ChrisSpooner.com. If I’m honest, this this is my favourite of all his site. I love the way the entire site changes around the weather.

So, as you can see above in the screenshot I took it was a cloudy day. Now, it’s not like I used the Safari Developer tools or anything to take a look at what other weather condition Chris had catered for in his CSS and changed the body class to get some rain…

…or even some snow.

Now, when I saw this effect for the first time I was instantly interested in how Chris managed to do this. After a little digging, it turn out that a different Chris was responsible for this one.

Moving on, we have other sites by Chris. Although these ones can’t predict the weather for me I still think they are worth a mention. The next site is Chris’s business site, SpoonGraphics.

I would like to say now, I am not a fan of the brown – yuk! But what I do like on this site is the scrolling portfolio. Normally with these I just think, whatever – every site has one these days. But Chris has done something a little different here. I like the way every slide is different. On most site every slide would have a standard template and every slide would be near-enough the same so, what’s different here? Every slide is unique.

The SpoonGraphics Blog is also a nice addition to the site. Although they are both very similar in style and fit in next to each other nicely, the Blog is still unique. It feels like it is separate form the rest of the site, but at the same time it still feel part of it. I like the graphic at the top of the blog, it adds a much more personal feeling to the blog, and makes it look kinda cool. Still don’t like the brown though.

His final site that I will look at today is Line25. There is one thing about this site that I notice every time I visit it, straightaway. This is the way the titles for each post are overlaid over an image for each post. This just jumps out at me as it creates a contrast between the title and the image.

I hope everyone has enjoyed this post. It would be interesting to see other people comment below with their thoughts of these sites.