I used to be obsessive about borders in a design. Obsessive in the sense that I had a hard time leaving them out. I felt as though they were necessary to crisply distinguish sections of a site. I believe I’m growing out of that, now. I’ve intentionally left the borders off of my site this time1, since I was confident contrasting colors would be just as effective. While borders are nice in a lot of instances, I’m digging sites without borders more and more.
- Example 1—slight use of borders, but overall it’s the colors that separate the content
- Example 2—borderless for the most part
- Example 3—very clean design (I like this version more than the redo)
1 I realize there are a few borders here and there (code snippets, the comment form, etc), but I’m mainly referring to the content containing area, and major focal points: the site header, post headings, comments, and so on.
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Vivabit is a legendary design, I’ve always loved the ‘box-within-a-box’ style it has. Once question, is that the previous incarnation of Firewheel, seems like I’ve seen it before.
Yeah, it is. I liked it more than the current design.