A couple of years ago my friend Simon who was at the time a web designer put me on to onepagelove.com which showcases the best in single page websites. This is a fairly recent idea and it does lend its self very well to modern web design. I myself am a fan of them and I built one a few years ago for Wendy Williams – it is pretty basic but it was featured on onepagelove.com.

Here is a short list of single page websites that I like:

Cahoona.co.uk is a site I recently saw that stood out in my mind. It has great use of jquery for the lastest work section and mostly the what we do section.

Davidsalvatori.com award winning wordpress one page style site, again a single column.

Launchlist.net a launch list for websites this makes perfect sense to be all in one page.

Cosstores.com one of my new favourite shops has also got a one page website, they have it in the column style and a navigation stays with you at all times and sends you around the canvas.

One thing I do have to say about one page style sites is they are mainly build by designers for their own sites, not many clients seem to end up with one page websites. Single page sites really do have their uses but it depends on many factors; amount of information needed to be displayed, how image heavy is the site, navigation, and if there is enough development time.