Web design genres

Design Meltdown 2010 is an interesting, growing resource. It collects example web sites under categories (e.g. churches and coffee shops, to name but two) and, at a finer level, lists examples of web site elements (e.g. breadcrumbs, contact forms etc.). Scanning through the category examples reveals some interesting genre characteristics (the archetypical coffee image, above, from 1369 Coffee House, still works).

[via Louise Hewitt, on BrightonNewMedia list]