Design déjà vu

Augmented · 22 Feb 2007 at 10:27

Curious if anyone knows where the mozilla.org layout design originated? The reason I ask is that it feels like I keep seeing the same design all over the place. Is it a default theme for a CMS, or released as an open-source template, or was it mozilla.org that came up with it and all the other site designers are lazy? For example:

/edit - aha, is this the default style of Drupal?

What's the design style/template/element you just can't seem to avoid?

socreative · 22 Feb 2007 at 13:45

logo, interface ?

L33 · 22 Feb 2007 at 15:15

http://drupal.org/

socreative · 22 Feb 2007 at 15:35

is you want to be original don't use any of the CRM stuff.. when web design becomes a mass production it sucks badly

Augmented · 22 Feb 2007 at 15:41

Yes, that is, in a way, what I'm getting at. I really like the simplicity of the design when it appeared on mozilla.org, but I'm starting to get a little sick of it when it's appearing on more and more [drupal-powered] sites. Same goes for the K2/Kubrick themes for Wordpress.

It turns out that the original design was for mozilla.org, created by silverorange.

Dj_Jestar · 22 Feb 2007 at 15:42

phpBB, Xportal, phpNuke and another one I can't remember the name of but is popular, all bug me silly.

JonB · 22 Feb 2007 at 16:00

Not all CMS sites are bad, Joomla! is a pretty awesome CMS. Some very different looking sites that you wouldn't think were running the same CMS.

http://www.joomla.org/

http://www.conceptweb.nl/

http://www.ellips.nl/

http://www.europs3forum.com/

http://nahko.at/index.php

The above all run joomla! Pretty cool, huh! Much better than using PHPnuke!

Dj_Jestar · 22 Feb 2007 at 16:20

JonB said:
Not all CMS sites are bad, Joomla! is a pretty awesome CMS. Some very different looking sites that you wouldn't think were running the same CMS.

http://www.joomla.org/

http://www.conceptweb.nl/

http://www.ellips.nl/

http://www.europs3forum.com/

http://nahko.at/index.php

The above all run joomla! Pretty cool, huh! Much better than using PHPnuke!

Agreed. PHPNuke/BB still have their own flavor and you rarely see a site that implements either that won't still have the tell tale phpNuke/BB style. Joomla leans more to the webdesigners role because you can restructure the entire template, should you want to.