Comments on: Something stripes me as odd…

By: Andrew Faulkner

Andrew Faulkner — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:46:56 +0000

Those bands are real trend at the moment. I’ve seen them say such things as “Too Cool for IE” and everything. They’re mainly political, which surprises me - I thought they’d mainly be used in the form of ads.

Stickers, bands, banners - what next?

By: Brian Breslin

Brian Breslin — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:56:23 +0000

i’m working on a design that could be construed as playing off this trend, but in reality i am using the stripes for purely ornamental purposes (to illustrate a ribbon on a box theme). it makes sense that these things would catch on, as there are fewer and fewer completely original ideas on the web these days (in terms of designing personal sites)

By: kemie

kemie — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:00:48 +0000

It’s fun seeing trends like this spread like wildfire, first as useful elements and then as sheep-copied ornaments. :)

By: Andrew Faulkner

Andrew Faulkner — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:20:24 +0000

It’s fun seeing trends like this spread like wildfire, first as useful elements and then as sheep-copied ornaments. :)

The life of a trend nicely summed up there, Kemie.

Another good example here:

http://www.kineda.com/

— EDIT —

Kineda seems to have changed. No stripe banner now.

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:55:32 +0000

I used the stripe on mine because it seemed like the least-intrusive way to include the link, especially since I am flying with the 1-column layout right now.

By: Phil Renaud

Phil Renaud — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:04:42 +0000

it works very well, Jeremy. 1 column is hard to pull off, but you do it well!

By: Andrew Faulkner

Andrew Faulkner — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:13:44 +0000

I like Jeremy’s use of the stripe. It doesn’t cover the content up like others I’ve seen - a bizarre thing to do.

By: Matt Dempsey

Matt Dempsey — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:39:26 +0000

Did everyone forget:

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/ ?

I think he pulls that one off really nicely.

By: Andrew Faulkner

Andrew Faulkner — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:47:35 +0000

Thanks Matt. I didn’t know HicksDesign had that stripe.

By: [synaptiv]

[synaptiv] — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:52:24 +0000

To tell you the truth hicksdesign is where I first encountered that strip, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is the one who made it cool :)

By: Easy Top Corner Banners with CSS at ExplodingBoy - Familiar to dozens.

Easy Top Corner Banners with CSS at ExplodingBoy - Familiar to dozens. — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:02:37 +0000

[…] Corner banners have been a popular web trend for a long while now. Last year you could not visit anyone’s website without seeing some type of banner stripe. I recently received quite a bit of heat concerning an anti-IE banner that I was displaying on my site, but even more questions on how I actually created the banner. The CSS needed to accomplish these corner banners is fairly simple and can be modified to accommodate any size image banner you choose. Below is a simple example of both left and right top corner banners. […]

By: RiBiT Solutions

RiBiT Solutions — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:49:22 +0000

So whats the opinion on this trend?

I think they can be very handy in designing a site.

I’m currently considering using one of these on an internal web app as an indicator of access level, i.e. Admin, User etc.

In the app I am developing its important to be able to determine the access level at a glance, so this seems a nice way of doing it.

I notice that many of the sites linked in the article have removed their ’stripe’ so maybe its no longer the trend…

By: Andrew Faulkner

Andrew Faulkner — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:07:57 +0000

RiBiT - Wow - an old post here!

I think that these often work to serve as an announcement tool. It doesn;t get in the way of the design in most scenarios.