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I have been slacking on site reviews for a couple reasons. Primarily, a lot of the reviews people want me to do for free aren’t related to technology or the web at all. Then there’s the paid reviews. $100 sounds nice, but not to review something you don’t care about. It’s not fair to you or to the person paying for the review. StylishDesign.com, on the other hand, is about what I have a passion for, so I present to you my first site review in a while.
(added note for clarification: $100 was not the price of this review. $100 was the amount offered by another company that I turned down.)

What is Stylish Design?
In this context, it’s a web site about the many ingredients that go into making web content. The About page still contains WordPress’ default example page content, but here’s the gist of the site, according to the homepage:

Stylishdesign.com is a blog about web designing and other stuff related to web design. On this blog you’ll find a lot of information about search engine optimization, web directories, different tools/softwares, CSS, website templates and so on.

Usability and Aesthetics
One thing I don’t like about a site is when it’s way too cluttered up and too hard to read the content. At the end of the day, the quality of your content is just barely more important than the usability of your site. SytlishDesign doesn’t have a super fancy site design. Instead, they have a very clean and still aesthetically pleasing design that makes reading SD articles what it should be: easy. The latest article is prominently featured at the top of the page and additional articles with preview snippets are below it. For a new site, it looks very professional, and that can make all the difference between success and failure.

Content is King
That is the saying, isn’t it? Stylish Design is still a pretty new blog, but they have already formed a content pattern. It seems that Robert is much more in tune with the server side of the web equation, writing articles about serving up static web pages, HTTP Request headers (very important to know about when developing dynamic sites), and my personal favorite, functions and codes.

While I still see a CSS article void that I imagine will be filled soon enough, there is at least one article that touches on SEO, as well. It talks about how submitting content to article directories can be good for traffic. Design is pretty negotiable and programming is straight-forward, but SEO is a tricky beast and I am anxious to see more articles from them in that arena.