Best developer websites you've seen?

LeonardDeveloper

Dear All,
Me on behalf of my company "Thermo-Apps" is creating a new website for my company and I am looking at a few designs so I thought it would be interesting to open up this thread and ask you guys what makes a really good looking developer website or to share developer websites that you've cam across!,
My current website design is available at; http://www.thermo-apps.com
I am also expanding my gs tutorials and creating a new website for them (I have already bought the domain name) The website should be available shortly at: http://www.LearnGS.com
Im looking forward to see what sites you guys like,
J.Leonard

LeonardDeveloper

Some developer websites that i like are:
The apple website: www.apple.com (not really a developer website)
Bjango: http://bjango.com/
rampchamp: http://rampchamp.com/
http://mixrdj.com/
Deep blue apps: http://www.deepblueapps.com/Deep_Blue_Ideas_Ltd./Home.html
and a couple of others
I like the rovio website: http://www.rovio.com/
http://www.halfbrick.com

hotMagic

I like half brick studios. It has that modern blog look, but its very clean.

LeonardDeveloper

are they're any wordpress developers on the forums?

LeonardDeveloper

@hotmagic
I think the same..

hotMagic

Your site looks like it's wordpress now. Am I right? I don't think it needs a huge redesign, just maybe like a unification of the graphical styles of BG, top banner, etc. Is that your goal?

Halfbrick is just a little more custom in its look. If you know CSS you can use an existing template and tweak it.

hotMagic

PS theres some good stuff on there. I like the developer diagram lol

LeonardDeveloper

@hotmagic
Yep its wordpress... I don't want to change some features I'm going for a complete redesign...

hotMagic

Cool. My personal recommendation would be stay with wordpress. I've found you can really tweak out things to make it look how you want. If you're super hardcore, you could go with drupal. But I personally find that it's like bringing a shotgun to a knife fight. (if that's even an analogy)

LeonardDeveloper

@hotmgaic
I'm staying would word press just migrating to wordpress.org

Photics

@LeonardDeveloper
are they're any wordpress developers on the forums?

I'm a web developer. Photics.com is running on WordPress. I've been seriously considering switching it to Drupal though. While WordPress has been much easier for me to setup, use and maintain, I like the power that I can get with Drupal.

HoneyTribeStudios

@LeonardDeveloper ThemeForest has some nice wordpress templates. That's where I got my new site template from.

Doguz

I'm a Joomla man all the way
http://www.tradeapps.biz

8BitAvrin

@LeonardDeveloper

My website is currently through Wordpress --> http://www.futurenewbapps.com I'm about to due a slight redesign on the Apps/Games section though since its getting a bit lengthy, but the look will overall stay the same as it is now.

LeonardDeveloper

Wow thanks for the comments!
Let me address them:
@photics
Actually I love phonics.com But I like the fresh, Contemporary and new style like the apple websiet and thats what I'm going for! I already got a web developer too! Just before you posted that you were one! ... Yes drupal is more powerful, I used it for a while... But I just like the wordpress feel and usability personally!
@honeytribestudios
Yes yore website is lovely and clean! I like that but I've already found a great template that I know I'm using! BY the way, Do you have to pay extra to get your own custom footer? instead of "proudly powered by wordpress" ??
@rks
haha! No I liek DBA's site... Unfortuantely your site isn't my style... It doenst catch my eye and its a bit too empty and it doenst look "Pretty" As some may put it....
@doguz
I personally don't like joomla but your website is beautiful!
@futurenewbapps
My site was through wordpress.com for a while but now I switched to wordpress.org because its better and tehyre are more features... I would suggest changing your "Blavatar" so that your favicon has your logo on it.... Like my website...



Overall,
Thanks very much guys and keep the updates and posts coming!
J.Leonard

DimensionGames

@Leonard you don't have to pay to remove the Wordpress header, you just have to edit/remove some of the code on your website.

LeonardDeveloper

@bright-spark-games
Cool! THanks for the info

LumpApps

www.lumpapps.com done in Joomla!
I never tried another cms because I rather spend my time in development and joomla does what I need for now.
The only thing I'd like to change on my site is a single column mobile version but again no time to deal with it now.

HoneyTribeStudios

No you don't pay extra. Just edit the footer.php file.

MarkOnTheIron

If you're not scared of tampering a little with the html files iWeb is still one of the best WYSIWYG editors. Too bad Apple don't have plans for it.

Check http://www.markontheiron.com is done entirely in iWeb.


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old_kipper

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LeonardDeveloper

@rks
Hate to say it, But your wrong The speed of your site isn't really important (If your site was dead slow then it is important) A couple of seconds don't really matter, Its the look and design of your site that matters, If apple had a crap looking app store interface and a crap looking website we wouldn't be here today as apple developers, As they're may not have been as much a big of a want for the app store if it looked shite, "Design isn't what it looks like, Its how it works" That is a famous quote from the late Steve Jobs,
@Oldkipper
I like that one too!

Braydon_SFX

I don't know why, but I really like these two.

http://applaudmobile.co.uk/
http://www.gamesmold.com

LeonardDeveloper

@braydon_sfx
I like that applaud mobile site too! I also like games mold !

Photics

@RKS
I think a fast site is very important. My site isn't the prettiest on here, but it is pretty much a tie for the fastest, the tie being http://photics.com.
Go ahead, try it. Photics' site is fast and so is mine.

Actually, one of the reasons why I want to switch to Drupal is because of speed. Photics.com is actually a slow site. I've built much faster. Drupal has built-in caching to help speed things up. Although, I've seen a similar feature for WordPress via a plug-in.

@LeonardDeveloper
@rks
Hate to say it, But your wrong The speed of your site isn't really important (If your site was dead slow then it is important) A couple of seconds don't really matter

Speed can affect Search Engine Optimization. Google is obsessive about speed... as shown in the Chrome commercials... so the difference between 1 second and .01 seconds might matter for page rank.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html

beefy_clyro

Mine was built with wordpress, not the greatest but its not bad .... www.kc8.co.uk

Rob2

http://flipboard.com/ is fun

fzeed

I use WP, but i code my own CSS and hack their PHP.

Photics

OK, so I decided to try a page caching plugin with Photics.com. The site loads faster now. It seems a lot of the developers around here use WordPress, so you might want to look into WP Super Cache for speeding up your site.

LeonardDeveloper

XDXD @ all the comments... :P

LeonardDeveloper

@photics
Thanks for the tip! Im after switching to wp.org so I'm gonna check that out today! Does it cost?