The new Webmonkey. Funny, I’m currently designing a portal-like site at work, but I briefly worked on a proposal for some new business and my screen schematics looked like, what else, a portal, ’cause that’s the frame of mind I’m in. Others working on the proposal said, “It looks too much like a portal” and I agreed.
But on the way to work this morning I thought, “Is that such a bad thing?” People associate portals with customization and personalization, maybe there will be some subliminal effect created by the very look of the page – its composition of modular content chunks – that might give the impression the site is somehow custom tailored :-)
And there’s the new Webmonkey this morning all redesigned and modular and columnish.