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Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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LOL at the button after the submission form. I submitted https://simonsarris.com because of my ridiculous background (a town that builds with CSS animations, and birds that appear to have no set path done with pure CSS). The logic behind the little birds: they are DIVs with CSS animated on a cubic path up-and-down, while their ::after is getting animated on a different cubic path left-to-right. The result of 2 separa…

That's lovely, and the rebuild is awesome.

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

#32

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Care to share your company then? Or your products/website that I can take a look at?

Company is ReadMe.com :) Here's our handbook with the values: https://readme.com/handbook

Nice! I see the whimsical part indeed. I like the owl character (especially its prevalence in https://blog.readme.com/)! Has way more personality than [Alegria](https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...).

Tell your designers for me to bank on that visual language and stay away from "corporate clip-art". It's funny to me how even start-ups (who claim "personal touch" as an edge in their service) utilize the blandness of Alegria.

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

#33

LOL at the button after the submission form. I submitted https://simonsarris.com because of my ridiculous background (a town that builds with CSS animations, and birds that appear to have no set path done with pure CSS). The logic behind the little birds: they are DIVs with CSS animated on a cubic path up-and-down, while their ::after is getting animated on a different cubic path left-to-right. The result of 2 separa…

I had to spam the website to find out, but if you want to try without spamming, just go to this URL directly:

https://whimsical.club/join/submitted

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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I love this, I also miss the more fun side of the internet that seems to be dwindling. The best whimsical site I've seen in a while is https://hannahblair.co.uk/ , she made a whole Windows 95 Desktop remake as her personal site, including some remakes of some classic software, it's really amazing!

You just reminded me of https://poolside.fm/

This is one of the coolest sites I’ve ever seen! I love every part of it!

Re: The Whimsical Website Club

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Company is ReadMe.com :) Here's our handbook with the values: https://readme.com/handbook

Nice! I see the whimsical part indeed. I like the owl character (especially its prevalence in https://blog.readme.com/ )! Has way more personality than [Alegria]( https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-... ). Tell your designers for me to bank on that visual language and stay away from "corporate clip-art". It's funny to me how even start-ups (who claim "personal touch" as an edge in their servic…

I'm the designer, so I hear ya! Definitely agree... we worked hard to make sure Owlbert only pops up rarely. He's not on the homepage (other than a few easter eggs), and barely in the product. He's mostly for swag and the blog!
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