[alan_cx]

I just want to praise you for it NOT looking like that awful look Win 8 is now designed in. That style must have a name but I dont want to dirty my mind by knowing it. ;)

Grumpy old git moans aside, what I really want to say is that layouts like this are so, so easy to come up with on paper, as it were. Lets face it, there is nothing new there at all. But making something so basic look so elegant is the real art.

Yeah, there are nitpicks, but I'm sure you'll smooth those out. The bulk or core is bang on.

As a lazy useless git, I wouldn't mind a template of it!!!!

Nice work.

[mediumdeviation]

The style is commonly referred to as "metro", inspired by the design of metro signs. The idea is to reject skeuomorphism, and use large, clean typography to deliver something that is 'digitally native'. You could think of it as a direct rejection of Apple's adoption of decorative skeuomorphic designs that bring things into the digital space which really don't belong here.

It's not exactly a bad idea, though it is possible to take things a little too far. Certainty if you observe the trends in web designs recently sites appear to be "flatter", less cluttered and more focused, without the Apple inspired "Web 2.0" glossiness that has taken over from circa 2006 onwards

[shawnz]

> what I really want to say is that layouts like this are so, so easy to come up with on paper, as it were. Lets face it, there is nothing new there at all. But making something so basic look so elegant is the real art.

Which was exactly Microsoft's rationale for Metro.

Whether or not they achieved that goal, though, is another matter.