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I typically hate on websites pretty hard, but actually I don't have much problem with that site. Maybe it's a bit orange, but it's clear and usable. What are your objections to it?

* No visual heirarchy since everything is incredibly saturated

* Useless stock icons are way bigger than the text describing them

* Horrible use of white space

* Weird margins and padding

* Constantly moving animation at the top right

* Tacky quotes like "We will not rest until you have a site to be proud of."

* Only 2 clients ever (and only one of them even has a screenshot)

* Their RSS feed names their blog "BLOGNAME".

I'm not attacking the site, just listing the things that jumped out at me.

Well, you miss the most important part- usability. It looks pretty good to me!

And btw, good developers might not be good designers!

The article is spot on, and it's not on the topic of design... It's on business models for freelancers. And I bet he does pretty well! :)

True but being a good designer and being a good business person are two different things.

If he does work mostly for corporations, then his website is spot on.

That's how most of the web looks.

That implies the author built most of the web.

Or was just inspired by it.

How so?