Monthly Archive:
September, 2011
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
As regular visitors to this site will know, we love Lego. We really, really do. We love its creativity, its originality, its endless possibilities and most of all, we love it because it is darn good fun. As we mention with our with our previous Lego ads article (39 Creative Lego Advertisements), its creativity is not only limited to plastic building bricks. It even extends to their impressive advertising campaigns as well. They have taken the simplest of ideas and [...]
Web design does not have to be limited to a typical grid structured layout. It sometimes feels like we are locked in an endless cycle of header, content, sidebar and footer. That is it. It would be great if we could to tear away from convention sometimes and also force ourselves to break some usability rules. Just imagine what we could create. In today’s post we have for you a selection of sites that do exactly as described above: They [...]
Every six months or we do like to take a look at some of the greatest and freshest jQuery plugins from within that time. Each time we do this the jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Constantly releasing plugins that are not only useful and problem solving, but also releasing plugins that can aid you with new technologies like HTML5 and CSS3. Hope you enjoy this selection. You might also like: 50 jQuery Plugins for Form Functionality, [...]
This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.
Using seamless/tileable patterns are a fantastic method for giving your design some added depth and character by either subtly highlighting key areas or for creating a background that will push your layout design to the forefront. The seamless patterns sets in this post range in format from .eps, .ai, .png, .pat, .psd and .jpg, with each set containing anything at least 3 patterns rising all the way up to 300. They vary from fabrics, geometric shapes, flowery, retro, vintage, grunge, [...]
Ready-made HTML5 templates are currently one of the most sought after resources within the web design community. They not only offer a quick and easy-to-edit solution for building modern websites, they also offer a fantastic route to explore and understand HTML5s syntax. All of the themes below are free and all have been coded with HTML5. Enjoy them :) You might also like… 10 Essential Guides, Resources and Tools for Getting Started with HTML → 10 HTML5-Ready Blank, Bare-Bones and [...]
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
We have a fantastic giveaway for you today, you’ll love it. We have three year-long licenses (worth $120 each) for the recently launched Solo, an awesome project management tool for the modern freelancer. You can try Solo out first with their 14 day free trial. Click here for the registration page: Solo Trial Login. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these licenses is leave a comment below telling us how you would use this [...]
There’s a lot to be learned by looking at before and after shots of a website’s redesign. You get to see what the designer or design team has learned about design since the last rendition, where they’ve identified problems and areas of the design that could be improved. The site’s look and feel is brought up to date with trends, and often more timeless improvements are made, such as base typography enhancements. Examining these changes can help you take advantage [...]
Today we have an exciting and appealing collection of high resoultion wallpapers for you. A new wallpaper will freshen up your daily outlook and does have the power to give a good dose of inspiration when needed. With that in mind, you are bound to find a wallaper that appeals to you in this collection. The wallpapers below cover most of the popular topics, including nature, fantasy, panoramic shots, delicate patterns, beautiful illustrations, HDR, and a hell of a lot [...]
This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or by subscribing to our RSS feed.
In the past, web design has impressed us with their shiny gradients, smooth expressions and simple and bold colors. But the use of textures, within the design, has never really reached the popular heights. At least, until now. Mainstream web design has started to use more and more textures within the layout design. Albeit, with lots of subtlety. Mixing modern and simplistic layouts with an ageless and light texture to carefully highlight and enhance certain areas of the design, has [...]








