tomlovesyou has been picked up and got featured by a number of web design gallery sites recently in the last few months. It’s been exciting and flattering to watch my site spread from one gallery to the next. I was so proud to get featured on those pages because i never believed my design and style would be good enough for them, but i was wrong.
Each of those lots of gallery and showcase pages out there show the designs and pages created and coded with web standards. This community honors those designers who aren’t afraid to think outside-the-box, and who are reinventing their ideas of what great web design can, and of course should be.
About
tomlovesyou was created to present the latest techniques in visual presentation, user experience, and site coding to the web design community in a simple and effective manner i hope. I´m still in a learning process so my style will get better and so my coding skills of course too, its always a learning process during the life. The tomlovesyou project is on what i actually wanted: the asskicking design.
No frills it is a labor of love!
Sure i was afraid about the colours and the layout but you liked it and proofed its good to mess with the world.
Benefits
Getting featured on the gallery´s over the last years gave my site and reputation a huge boost, and pushed me always on my limits of knowledge and usability. CSSMania, CSSstar and CSSArtillery for example, makes it possible to share your work, ideas, design or art-work with the world. Another benefit is the free promotion it gives you when your listed and perhaps this will be your start in a new life, a new job or great and interesting offers for works.
To get featured is everytime a honour to me, really, but i think i deserved it like John would say and to get feaured on those pages is still unbelievable.
What i think and maybe i´m very wrong with it is, its not that easy to get featured and only a handful suggested sites get accepted into the gallery´s. That’s because those gallery´s accepts only the best designs. And mine is good enough to mess with the rest!
The future
Looking at the stats the site has popped up across the world including the States, UK, Sweden and Italy. It event got a mention in Japan, but I don’t know if what they said was good or bad!
I received a lot of emails and nice feedback, but also very interesting offers for freelancing works in austria and the netherlands. But what i like the most is the network every gallery is. Everyone sees and knows whats possible in creating design, usability, artwork and CSS and i´m sure not only me is visiting the showcases for inspiration- all of those sites have a great display of designs to point you in the right direction
I hope you can enjoy this little place on web as much as I have enjoyed growing it.
