Overall, it was pretty hard to find biological
information (such as birthday, family information and all that stuff) about Collis Ta’eed. I still wanted to blog about him because after looking at his sites I
was intrigued. I found him listed as #1 on the “30 Most Influential People in Web Design” and wanted to learn more. Collis is known to be an entrepreneur,
blogger and web designer. He lives in Hong Kong and travels all around the world.
I could tell that he was very open to fans because of his mentioning of
contacting him and he uses Twitter a lot. He created, and is now the CEO of
Envato, a site that helps people learn online through courses, eBooks, videos
and blogs. Envato has many different marketplaces, which are different
memberships that you can buy to learn new things. For example, Tuts Premium
helps people to learn web design, web apps, video design and many other things.
I really like the Envato site. It has a nice light
green background with white bubbles, that is calming and not overwhelming. The
top right corner then has numbers, where you can put your cursor on top of to
find out what they mean (Marketplace Membership=2,594,764 and Combined Twitter
and RSS Count for All Envato Web Properties=750,760). This shows that many
people are using Envato, which leads us to believe it has reliable information.
The mission is underneath these items and it is easy to read. I also like the
changes from black to gray font because makes the headings stand out from the
text. Then there are all of the different membership options with the name, a
link to that page, a description and a screenshot of the next page. The screenshot
helps for customers to be able to decide what they are looking for and the
descriptions are very easy to understand. As you scroll, down the background
stays the same and I find that pretty cool. Next come an about paragraph which
is helpful and it is good that it is underneath the membership options because
it is important, but not as important as the other information. Then the
website goes on to list their team, where they featured and how to contact them
or get support. All of the “subwebsites” are also very simple and easy to
understand with great descriptions, ratings, titles and screenshots.
Overall, I think the size and layout of the website
is very nice. The design is simple and does not require me to go to many
different pages. Also there is an option to just skip down the page to go to
different pieces, such as “Meet Our Websites”, “About Envato” and “Contact Us”. I am really interested in all of this web design stuff.
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