Links are almost too dark on my monitor.
 Drew13

Flash intro.... ouch
 Drew13

Kind of dig the logo
 Drew13

Interesting UI with the wallet, though it doesn't fit with the menu system or visuals of the rest of the site.
 Drew13

Clean, simple, easy to use, a bit too blog-esque to really appeal to me though...
 Drew13

The main menu is being pushed outside the wrapper div and is maybe supposed to slide as you scroll down? Hmm... Some major coding problems here
 Drew13

Clean layout, well organized, but it's a bit too generic for a TU.
 Drew13

There are some fun and inviting elements to this site, it just seems a bit too jumbled to work.
 Drew13

I'm a little confused as to why they wouldn't have just centered this...
 Drew13

Interesting concept, the hover-state makes the content a bit rough to follow.
 Drew13

Just trying to have a little fun. I work in a windowless area in a cubicle, without little things like the Fu-logo, I might loose my mind.... Or maybe I already have :)
 Drew13

riveting
 Drew13

I like this, but some of the overlay elements aren't lined up correctly, and the six elements in the center don't flow into the rest of the design. The devil is in the details, a close TD
 Drew13

way to fight the good fight tacobell
 Drew13

The illustration in the upper right is great, typography needs some help though.
 Drew13

Lukewertz is right, plus the pages on the top menu don't hold up. Needs to tighten it's navigation and subpages a lot.
 Drew13

splash page..... ouch
 Drew13

it doesn't stop spinning..... arg
 Drew13

swoosh
 Drew13

Typography seems stretched

 Drew13

agreed
 Drew13

The system is down.
 Drew13

"Whoa, you are voting a little too fast. Slow down buddy." - Horrible message, because you should be able to double TD this in an instant.
 Drew13

that background is horrific
 Drew13

that background is horrific
 Drew13

TD for the url alone...
 Drew13

My mom thinks I'm cool...
 Drew13

yuck


 Drew13

nice site, but the design of the interior pages doesn't seem to be as strong as the homepage, TU all the same.
 Drew13

at least they have a fairly decent logo for a university....
 Drew13

swoosh, td.
 Drew13

It's as if the designer just stopped, put in one or two good design elements then gave up.
 Drew13

swoosh, TD
 Drew13

Needs to commit to the background...
 Drew13

agreed, close, but not there yet.
 Drew13

I'm giving this a TU because its campus is close to mine, it's way smaller, and yet it's still light years ahead of CSU's homepage design. Good job Greeley
 Drew13

Eh, would have been a TD, but alas, the name won my heart.
 Drew13

Looks like a website for a B college-comedy movie
 Drew13

scribbles and distress... must look awesome to students.
 Drew13

might be nice when it loads...
 Drew13

might be nice when it loads...
 Drew13

might be nice when it loads...
 Drew13

The guy with the glasses who pops up in the photo looks like a zombie.
 Drew13

Hot, very hot.
 Drew13

Can't read it, but I bet one of those tabs at the top will take you to a page on celebrity gossip.
 Drew13

Starts off nice, but it loses its charm as you scroll down. The tree turns into a bland line with no organic elements which kills it for me.
 Drew13

A good site, just boring.
 Drew13

It's in Seattle, so it must be a good design...
 Drew13

Great photos can carry a site, but as TAdams and stewart pointed out, the rest of the site has some issues... Guess I'll be the first TD
 Drew13

TAdams was right on, could be nice if it spaced out it's content a bit better.
 Drew13

TAdams was right on, could be nice if it spaced out it's content a bit better.
 Drew13

... and it has you load pop-ups to get to some content. ouch.
 Drew13

The logo is pretty sweet...
 Drew13

I really wish the swoosh/wave would die as a design element.
 Drew13

Great colors, but the content organization is horrid. As everyone was saying above, I still can't use the drop downs. If they fixed them, they still don't work in Safari...
 Drew13

The load time of this site kills me, could be a nice site, didn't want to watch the logo-loader fill up...
 Drew13

TAdams is right about the poor content display, but the illustrations are pretty sweet...
 Drew13

Agreed, it feels like you should be able to buy a cheap USB hub somewhere on this site.
 Drew13

Best campus map I've seen.
 Drew13

Wow, those drop down menus are monsters.
 Drew13

Ah, the Ol' Alma Mater.... thumbs down!
 Drew13

Looks like a site for the army.
 Drew13

The drop down menus are a little cumbersome, but the rest of the site is great!
 Drew13

Hmmm.... site seems to be down...
 Drew13

This makes me want to listen to the cure.
 Drew13

The redesign is pretty slick
 Drew13

All swooshes are inherently bad, but when they don't line up.... ouch.
 Drew13

Great map with nice detail and animation, though one of the cars looks like it has watched Tokyo Drift one too many times. The design that's framing the app doesn't seem all that impressive.
 Drew13

template
 Drew13

This site is in real need of more bow ties as well
 Drew13

Oops, just gave my own place of employment a big thumbs down....
 Drew13

Oops, just gave my own place of employment a big thumbs down....
 Drew13

Great clean site, but I would never associate this with anything forest-like...
 Drew13

This would be a great bank website...
 Drew13

Wow, just wow....
 Drew13

student-centric?
 Drew13

The green looks nice in the thumbnail....
 Drew13

Thumbnail looks nice, but the site is redirecting...
 Drew13

Dang, normally I would have thumbed this down as fast as I saw it, but after digging through this site for a month or so, I'm either starting to appreciate the subtlety of Higher Ed design or I've lowered my design standards....
 Drew13

If they ditch the red text and the illustrated mountains for some real ones it wouldn't be that bad of a site.
 Drew13

Close, very close.
 Drew13

Could be a well done white site, but that weird angle element throws it off.
 Drew13

This site went on the slim-fast diet.
 Drew13

I want Biola's designer in a bad way.
 Drew13

Interesting logo.
 Drew13

Slick archiving visuals
 Drew13

Another note though, most university sites look generic in an unfinished way, at least this one has a polished look.
 Drew13

Jillgee is spot on, very generic. The texture is nice, some of the typography is great, but the swooshes and rounded corners need to be rethought, colors as well.
 Drew13

Great flash integration!
 Drew13

Great photography saves it from falling too much.
 Drew13

NateMSC is right,animation is too drawn out, could tighten up the spacing a bit, but overall a great site.
 Drew13

Alignment was mucked up in Safari.
 Drew13

Rileywills hit this on the head, the menu text is tiny, site is a bit wide too.
 Drew13

That is one beautiful campus.
 Drew13

Hmm, not sure they tested it very extensively in Safari. Has a few issues with spacing and image placement.
 Drew13

I can't in good conscious give a site a thumbs up when the first element on the page has tracking like that..... shame too, it's a great site.
 Drew13

Ah, the tracking is so bad. I almost gave it a thumbs up, but man if one bad use of typography doesn't kill a site.
 Drew13

great header / footer
 Drew13

The frog in the upper right has creepy eyes...
 Drew13

These colors would go great with a late night commercial about an off-brand drug.
 Drew13

I wish with all my heart that the wave / swirl border element will disappear from web design for ever.
 Drew13

Does some odd things in Safari when I resize it.
 Drew13

This site makes me want to go Bass fishing for some reason. I got a few "Forbidden" screens from the menu when trying to click in. The menu type is a bit squished for my taste too.
 Drew13

Wow, someone redesigned and found out how to use .png Makes me want to go to a playground though. Digging the little Godzilla-style graphic at the bottom. Almost gave it a thumbs up just for that.
 Drew13

Hmmm. The links have an almost black background that gives them an odd if subtle contrast to the background. Not digging it.
 Drew13

At first I thought it was a bank website. Nicely done, but the navigation and links seem a bit jumbled.
 Drew13

Hmm, it seems like if someone uses the taped on technique it's automatically labeled as 'hip' so therefore must fit the target demographic....
 Drew13

Could be a nice site with a few simple things such as transparency and a non-tiling background, less of a margin at the top.... ok, it needs work.
 Drew13

Transy indeed. I just want to drop the 's'
 Drew13

The puzzle piece at the bottom of the page looks like an amorphous blob attacking the page.
 Drew13

The color choice for the text is slightly overdone...
 Drew13

Needs some help with how it's using drop shadow, maybe a few more bamboo leaves too, but otherwise pretty nice.
 Drew13

This site could be very slick with a few simple updates to polish the design. Needs one more layer of depth...
 Drew13

Hmm, uses .gif's in places that don't load all that pretty if they come in before the background....
 Drew13

Five different type treatments on the homepage. ouch.
 Drew13

Site didn't load right in safari.
 Drew13

Love large photo backgrounds, but the content doesn't seem to flow over it as well as it should
 Drew13

Trendy Circles.... check
 Drew13

The B looks cut off
 Drew13

Better than most, but still not good enough...
 Drew13

Nice attempt, but it seems to be all glitter. Slick interface doesn't make up for a stitched together design.
 Drew13

Nice attempt, but it seems to be all glitter. Slick interface doesn't make up for a stitched together design.
 Drew13

Nice design, but slooooooooow
 Drew13

The curse of bad tracking...
 Drew13

The tracking at the top of the page is horrendous
 Drew13

This site has some really great elements. The shifting background, the dynamic header, but the rest of the site doesn't hold to the same standard. The fonts and image use as you click into the site seem like afterthoughts to other design elements...
 Drew13

That background is atrocious... and makes me want a cigarette...
 Drew13

Looks wedged into the top left corner
 Drew13

The redesign is nice...
 Drew13

Kind of cool that it changes with the seasons....
 Drew13

If the colors were refined a little more this site might have something.
 Drew13

This site is clean and well organized, but this is the root of the higher ed design problem. Being clean and well organized should be the start of good design, not the end.
 Drew13

This site is clean and well organized, but this is the root of the higher ed design problem. Being clean and well organized should be the start of good design, not the end.
 Drew13

The problem with higher ed sites is that they look like higher ed sites and try to adhere to the golden age of ivy league (the 50's $ 60's) when flat colors and boring simple layouts appealed to students. Maybe it's a generational thing, but this site is so simple I want to poke myself in the eye with my stylus.
 Drew13

This site fooled me at first. Using only solid colors (especially a gray background) usually make a university's website look so bland. The organization and color choice save this site (barely).
 Drew13

I'm a sucker for dark websites and distressed type. (though this site needs to lay back on the later)
 Drew13

The typography and it's color choice is nicely done, but the rest of the site doesn't hold to the same standard.
 Drew13

It's amazing how much a nice photograph can carry a site.
 Drew13

Kind of liked it in the thumbnail, but lost me when I saw it full screen...
 Drew13

Close to being a decent site...
 Drew13

I'm Batman
 Drew13

I'm Batman
 Drew13

Hot color scheme for the early 90's
 Drew13

Would be nice, but the flash transitions kill it. Ericstoller is on it though, dragons=awesome
 Drew13

The scrolling type is a bit of a drag and the icons on the left don't seem to fit, but the rest is a groovy
 Drew13

splash page...... ouch
 Drew13

Really interesting, but needs to focus on the weight of the typography a bit more...
 Drew13

Nice site. The information in the footer could be organized a bit better, and the background pattern needs to be a bit smaller, but all in all a great site. It's always good to see a fellow university designer in Colorado doing great work.
 Drew13

Love the horizontal tabs that appear deeper in the site, but something still seems off with the layout. The content seems to stay second fiddle to the navigation as you click into the site...
 Drew13

Content is easy to navigate, but the beige tabbed headers on the homepage have odd positioning.
 Drew13

Needs a bit more flair, and an external style sheet...
 Drew13

Like all of the colors except for the red menu which needs to be toned down to match. The center justify is a spot on observation too.
 Drew13

Like all of the colors except for the red menu which needs to be toned down to match. The center justify is a spot on observation too.
 Drew13

Nicely done considering the school colors.
 Drew13

Huge improvement. Clean, easy on the eye, good use of a horrid school color. I agree with TAdams, the yellow on yellow navigation needs to pop more...
 Drew13