deviantART v5: where ART meets application!
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deviantART: where ART meets application!
Great news,.. I think. DeviantArt recently announced their v5 to be released on August 7th; it’ll be their 6th birthday.
It can only be an improvement I think.
First and foremost, the layout. It’s the first thing you see when you visit a site, it’s the first thing you really gauge your opinion of a website on. Combined with the colorscheme makes it just plain ugly.
Navigation is a mess, deviations are nested inside multiple categories. I’m no expert but I think it would be better to use tags instead of categories, like Flickr.
Ads, the homepage doesn’t have ads below the navigation, but every other page has a big block of google’s adsense crammed in between.
I can’t really flame on ads because everybody’s got to make a little money and they got their servers to pay too. Although, I bet they make enough money off of the custom prints they sell.
Aside from the website itself, it’s a great community of talented artists giving away their creations for free.
I go their about once a week to pick out a new dual screen desktop wallpaper(not bragging or anything :-)). I always end up satisfied and astonished.
Here are some of my favorite deviants.(deviants=users, deviations=creations)…
celsojunior: some fine vector art, take a look at his gallery, nice use of colors
hejz: The guy deleted his whole gallery because he doesn’t think the new changes in DA agreement are fair. You can find him on his personal website.
zilla774: also very cool, view his gallery
