Some Great Examples

Here are a few examples of some great web design:

• Ebay is a worldwide online store which is a membership site created to enable users to engage in online shopping and selling. Utilising the PayPal and credit card forms of sale and postage via the mail system, Ebay gives anyone the opportunity to sell items via a web based system, through direct sales and/or online auctions.
  
  Ebay sorts and keeps all items in categories to make searches easier for customers and rating systems keep sellers in place from fraud to protect customers.
  
  Membership is free and Ebay has branched out into many different countries which run seperate systems which link but are running from different servers. Ebay's search engine is used more than Google's search by users on the internet.
  

• Brewtopia is an Australian based website located in Gladesville, where its internet website works together with their warehouse and production facilities to create a user focused service of creating personalised bottles of beer, water and wine. Customised labels on the bottles for corporate events are designed on their flash based system and then can be ordered and purchase with a credit card or PayPal account.
  
  Once items are purchased customers must then create a login to help process an order. Purchasers of designed water, beer or wine bottles can organize for delivery of their customized items, through mail which can take up to 9 days through the postage system. Pickups from their Gladesville warehouse after three days can be also arranged for quicker retrieval.
  

• DeviantArt is an online community or Artists and Designers, launched on the 7th of August, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens and Angelo Sotira, amongst others. which gives users the ability to showcase their works on a worldwide platform. With the tools to upload and sort their artworks into various categories DeviantArt is one of the most popular and most used Artist and Artwork Databases online.
  
  According to Time Magazine, in 'The Newest Time Waster' article it states that 'DeviantArt also provides a community of like-minded individuals and is visited by 2 million individuals per day who view approximately 100 million pages. As of February 2008 the site consists of over 6 million users and over 52 million submissions, and receives around 70,000 submissions per day'.