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19 awesome black sites

abduzeedo.com — when you work with black, the right colors will bring just the right contrast. Lime-green, Orange, Electro-Pink... most shocking colors will bring awesome life to the layout. Of course, checking this sites you'll get to see many examples of how to apply colors in a black layout

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  • BinderGang, on 08/28/2008, -16/+196Correction:
    19 awesome african american sites
  • IHaveIssues, on 08/28/2008, -19/+8Not enough rap and hos.
  • D14BL0, on 08/29/2008, -12/+5Black is much easier on the eyes than the blue-on-white just about every other major website uses these days.

    No offense, Digg.
  • omgsoemo, on 08/29/2008, -16/+2racist
  • copypastry, on 08/29/2008, -18/+5Surely Soulja Boy's myspace isn't on there.

    WATCH ME HACK THAT SOULJA BOY
  • Final2, on 08/29/2008, -4/+17Black can really be good if used right. Although it can really be awful if used wrong. Not to mention printing black sites is hopeless.
    • freaky2k, on 08/29/2008, -4/+21There's a reason web developers have the ability to set a different color theme for printing via css.
    • darkjolt, on 08/29/2008, -5/+7Normally for printing they have a white background.

      Unless they're retarded.
    • artfiend77, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3Black is the new White space
  • darkjolt, on 08/29/2008, -5/+15Houston, we have a problem!
  • bitterbug, on 08/29/2008, -5/+7The site's still up but is just giving me their custom 404.
  • wnvoss, on 08/29/2008, -3/+1519? Couldn't add one more to make it 20?
  • BeeArePro, on 08/29/2008, -15/+3What's up with all these naggers and racist comments?
    • DarkenKO, on 08/29/2008, -6/+3OH that N word...

      courtesy of Stan's Dad on Wheel of Fortune!
  • SharkyTech, on 08/29/2008, -4/+40Inaccurate: one disctinctly underwhelming black 404.
  • Typhoon2009, on 08/29/2008, -5/+2620: The 404 page for this site
  • tunafizzle, on 08/29/2008, -8/+1abduzeedo sucks and this is a 404. buried.
  • revmitcz, on 08/29/2008, -7/+1Seems like every time an article from that site ends up on digg, the page goes 404 within in minutes. Gah. So annoying.
  • ethana2, on 08/29/2008, -8/+0I don't want every website to look different, I just want them all to be an extension of my desktop and follow my theme settings.
    Of course, with greasemonkey, I WILL make the sites how I want them, so all I really expect of the web developers is proper use of alpha channel in images.
  • MasterTroll, on 08/29/2008, -19/+8Pick my cotton
    • GregFD3S, on 08/29/2008, -6/+6You fail at life.
    • niteskunk, on 08/29/2008, -5/+7For a "master troll" you sure aren't creative. I advise consuming bleach. It's a creative way to go.
    • forsight, on 08/29/2008, -2/+6you know you don't have to be of any one color to be extremely ticked by your racist comment. how dare you? you have no idea what life was life for anyone in history that richer ppl deemed as worthless and unfit to live a humane life.

      this is why this world sucks so hard- people that don't understand the true meaning of freedom, justice and peace. We are all entitled to this but do we all receive this? is this country really that fair? obviously not b/c so many people still have this sick mind frame that judges.

      in order for us to make change we must look inside our selves and see who we are and not what we were programmed by our parents/family/peers/and media..when light is shed upon you, you may then seek you true colors and help express genuine sincerity to those around you to create a happier environment for all to coexist.
      • johndavidjack, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2I agree with what you said, but that was a pointless time to write out something like that.

        The OP is going to look on this and laugh, because he got a "rise" out of everyone here. I just click the red thumb and don't bother...

        Well said though.
      • MtheoryX, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1For one, successful troll is successful.

        For two..."...you have no idea what life was..."

        Neither do you, unless you're over 150 years old, so get down off your soapbox.

        You got trolled, royally, and not even by a good troll...by an obvious troll.
  • SouljaBoySTFU, on 08/29/2008, -16/+3Mirror :

    http://tinyurl.com/2q575e
    • GregFD3S, on 08/29/2008, -3/+1Buried for comment, dugg for username.
  • TeamDynasty, on 08/29/2008, -5/+5The system, is down. The system, is down. The system, is down.
    Bucki bucki-do do, Bucki bucki-do do, Bucki bucki-do do.
    Dancing, Robots. Dancing, Robots
    • mattlohkamp, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1"bucki bucki-do do"? That is some atrocious phonetic spelling.
  • modelchick8806, on 08/29/2008, -3/+4Kudos for the nifty error page.
  • Schoffstall, on 08/29/2008, -4/+1Well this was a nice promotion stunt for them, considering the description mildly depicts their website...
  • wildfire, on 08/29/2008, -3/+18Trailing slash to the rescue again!

    http://abduzeedo.com/web-design-black-layouts/
  • mwaleed86, on 08/29/2008, -9/+0Gangsta Sites!.. Yo!>..
  • sgregory416, on 08/29/2008, -12/+2submitted by obama?
  • wnvoss, on 08/29/2008, -2/+8This works: http://abduzeedo.com/web-design-black-layouts/
  • benroy, on 08/29/2008, -11/+2You ignorant *****.
    These sites aren't black!
    They're Puerto Rican!
  • wnvoss, on 08/29/2008, -1/+12Add a slash to the end of the link!

    http://abduzeedo.com/web-design-black-layouts/
  • leif77, on 08/29/2008, -10/+5wheres http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.com ?
  • cyclopssmiley, on 08/29/2008, -8/+2DESIGN? ON THE FRONT PAGE OF DIGG? WHAT THE HELL?
  • jesseber, on 08/29/2008, -6/+2black ftw
  • Proctor, on 08/29/2008, -5/+1Abuzeedo's icon is so amazing.
  • gmanolatos, on 08/29/2008, -9/+2Black!? That's the worst color there is!
  • acliffhang3r, on 08/29/2008, -6/+1BUT WHERE IS MADDOX LOL!?
    • styx31989, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1While I have concluded that you are a retard, I was looking for Maddox as well.
      • acliffhang3r, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Your stupidity is only dwarfed by your mother's inability to abort you despite her pathetic attempts to pull you out with a coat hanger.
  • garybutler, on 08/29/2008, -5/+0You forgot this awesome black website.

    http://www.discreetfx.com
  • damntourists, on 08/29/2008, -6/+2these comments are lame.
  • swordphish, on 08/29/2008, -8/+2OBAMA 08!
  • forsight, on 08/29/2008, -7/+1you have no idea what life was life for anyone in history that richer ppl deemed as worthless and unfit to live a humane life, so why make such comment?

    this is why this world sucks so hard- people that don't understand the true meaning of freedom, justice and peace. We are all entitled to this but do we all receive this? is this country really that fair? obviously not b/c so many people still have this sick mind frame that judges.

    in order for us to make change we must look inside our selves and see who we are and not what we were programmed by our parents/family/peers/and media..when light is shed upon you, you may then seek you true colors and help express genuine sincerity to those around you to create a happier environment for all to coexist.
    • MtheoryX, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1"you have no idea what life was life for anyone in history..."

      Neither do you.

      Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful.
  • CrimsonBlur, on 08/29/2008, -1/+4There is just something about a pure black background that makes me gag. It's not that they can't be well-designed, I just do not like the look at all. No amount of "cool black sites" lists (of which there are many) will ever convince me otherwise.

    I also cannot stand reading white text on a black background, why do so many designers insist on doing this? Very light gray text on a black background can be easy on the eyes, but not pure white. There is a reason command prompts use light gray text and not white. Designers of black sites also like to go the extra mile and make the text super tiny, which to me makes it completely unreadable.

    It is interesting to me that these lists pop up so often, basically trying to convince people "see, black sites don't suck!" and every time I am disappointed.
  • ThirdPrize, on 08/29/2008, -3/+7Once you tried bgcolor="black", you won't go back.
    • irriadin, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3bgcolor is deprecated and only used if you don't do CSS. get with the program, these day if you want to use inline styles, it goes like this: style="background-color: #000;"
      • svivian, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1nerd
      • irriadin, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1haha. while I won't dispute that, being a Web Developer kind of necessitates using semantic code.
    • UnarmedHippo, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1what is that used for exactly?
  • ThirdPrize, on 08/29/2008, -7/+1Once you tried bgcolor="black", you won't go back.
  • kong27, on 08/29/2008, -8/+1www.bet.com
  • kleer242, on 08/29/2008, -6/+1make that 20- www.barackobama.com
  • WoollyMittens, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6Why are "awesome" sites always devoid of any useful content? Does a "good" design have to be so dominant that there is no space left for anything useful.

    Form follows function.
    • ThirdPrize, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4It is because most of them were produced by web designers for web designers.
  • lik3n, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1Digital Zoo uses an actual ampersand and not & like they should be.
  • robszol, on 08/29/2008, -1/+4http://maddox.xmission.com/

    this site is pretty black
  • downlinebuilder, on 08/29/2008, -3/+0Don't forget Downline Partners, it's got the coolest black design ever :)

    http://tinyurl.com/downline-partners

  • downlinebuilder, on 08/29/2008, -4/+0Don't forget Downline Partners, it's got the coolest black design ever :)

    http://tinyurl.com/downline-partners

  • Whitey07, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1When the colour black is used on sites right it's great but it's rare for them to work. There is a few sites on there which make them look cool.
  • DigitalGuy, on 08/29/2008, -3/+1Me likes em black. cause they're still pink in the middle.
  • ThirdPrize, on 08/29/2008, -1/+1All the while they support it, I am going to use it. ;)
  • kraftj, on 08/29/2008, -2/+1black + good use of neon's = impressive

    I'm equally impressed by some of the layouts though, regardless of black & neon colors.
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