Richard Stelmach - Web Design and Multimedia Portfolio

It’s only taken me a year and a half to get round to adding these but here they are:

Christmas flash games

The ski and particularly the snowball game were quite tricky to create but I was really happy with the results at the time. The idea was to help entice customers onto the christmas special area and spend spend spend! My programming friends also allowed people to enter a prize draw if they submitted they’re score.

Beneath the evil marketings ideas I also enjoyed making the games! And I hope you like them too, despite their unseasonal timing.

I like it when I get on sites, it makes me feel warm inside, I then like to tell people about it, hence this post. Soon I will think of something better to write about, until then, all you have are my selfish, ego-feeding lists of sites that the binge has featured on.

This showcase is about the hand drawn, web design style:

http://www.myinkblog.com/2009/05/16/a-showcase-of-popular-web-design-trends/

I agree that is useful sometimes to give a site a personal touch. While a site may often need to appeal to a wide audience, you can still strike a balance between fully personal and expressionistic design, and wide-appealing, user friendly design. This is especially useful in a personal site such as mine which I believe should contain some individualism as it is ultimately, about me.

I managed to appear on this post about breaking design rules. I don’t really see myself as the biggest of rebels, though there is no denying, the Maverick(from Top Gun) - esque connotations are appealing.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/10-web-design-rules-that-you-can-break/

It is definitely true that if you do something original it will stand out, and sometimes breaking the trend or ‘design rules’ is a way of doing this. Also it highlights the old addage that there is always an exception to the rule.

And another illustrative showcase:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-beautiful-hand-drawn-web-design/

Illustration isn’t as common in websites for one reason or another, so I guess it’s no surprise that the illustrative header on this site has helped it stand out.