# Rails apps look & feel

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-apps-look-feel/54978>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 15, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-apps-look-feel/54978 "2006-03-15T20:48:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-apps-look-feel/54978/1 "2006-03-15T20:48:32Z")

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**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-apps-look-feel/54978/3 "2006-03-15T21:33:58Z")

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Webdesign like fashion follows certain trends and periods of style.  
Right  
now, the style known as Web2.0 favors the kind of soft colored sites you  
see  
in Basecamp, 43Things, and Joyent, but it’s not limited to just Rails  
apps  
it’s a trend that you’ll see in non-rails sites, flickr, technorati, 9  
rules. You can find a description of this current flavor here:

[http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm](http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm)

It’s true though that Rails apps seem to follow their own flavor of this  
trend, perhaps in large part because 37 Signals is such a big influence  
on  
the Rails crowd. Also the sites you listed probably were either  
designed by  
37Signals themselves or were designed by designers who are close friends  
with them.

Tim C.  
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