Pete,
I cranked out on an entry for your contest a few days ago. I have spent a few minutes over the last couple of days gradually applying constraint to the design, trying to find harmony between two intangibles.
Vacant is the overused hipster drop shadows, throwback gradients, and collage of chaos kick from 2004. Minimal tastes delicious; making the simple complicated is way to commonplace.
I guess a designer really knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Flash That Thong has a good layout, but I would clean up the tables and element alignment a little bit. Treating front-end design as mere ?icing? is to jeopardize the success of any site.
Don?t insult your surfer?s intelligence with trendwhorish address for the site in the logo. It only repeats what the browser?s location already says. It?s high on the hyper redundant-meter. Surfer?s make their credibility-based decisions about the people behind the site based upon the overall visual appeal.
The thong that appears in the background is hand vectored abstract goodness. I am willing to toy further, applying different colors if necessary.
Sorry to hear about your data loss. Good luck with the site.
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