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Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation

Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation

There are an extensive amount of roads you can take in web design, specifically in navigation. Here, we will talk about one specific navigation technique, tab-based navigation. If properly carried out, tabbed navigation can be very clean and organized within ...

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Showcase Of Beautiful Sports Websites

Showcase Of Beautiful Sports Websites

We recently showcased beautiful websites from the fashion industry, and in response to reader requests, we'll do the same thing here for sports websites. This article showcases the most beautiful website designs from the North American sports industry, including ones for news, teams and leagues, sports apparel and more. Trends In ...

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Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos

Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos

As designers, we are always in constant need of inpiration. Whether it be Web or graphic design, other work to fuel our creativity is essential. Logo design requires the most amount of inspiration, however. Below we present a showcase of 50 ...

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Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Web design has come a long way since its beginning, especially in terms of styling. Take a look at a website from 10 years ago and compare it to one from today. The differences are enormous. One of the major changes you will notice is the background. Today, backgrounds are ...

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Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices

Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices

As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layout. If structured correctly, drop-down ...

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Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

By Jacob GubeOn websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website visitor needs to take in order to get to a higher-level page, and ...

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Showcase of Beautiful Fashion Websites

Showcase of Beautiful Fashion Websites

From a web designer's perspective, it can be very interesting to look at the top websites from a particular industry to see how they relate to their target audience, the different approaches that are used, and how they compare to websites in other industries. The fashion industry consists of companies ...

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Slideshows In Web Design: When And How To Use Them

Slideshows In Web Design: When And How To Use Them

By Matt CroninThe key to smart strategic Web design is finding an appropriate and interactive way to display information. One comes upon endless possibilities when searching for ways to display information. One solution, slideshows and sliders, is an excellent way to display information such as images in an organized and ...

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How To Use Icons To Support Content In Web Design

How To Use Icons To Support Content In Web Design

Why use icons? Design is all about communication: it doesn't matter how important or exciting the information that you're sharing is if you fail to hook your visitors. When initially viewing a website, most users will first scan the page for visually interesting content, and only after something grabs ...

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10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website

10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website

by Lee MunroeYou may have a personal portfolio website for a number of reasons. If you’re a freelancer, then you'd need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you. If you’re a student (or unemployed), then you'd need one to show prospective employers how good you are ...

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40 Excellent Illustrations In Web Designs

40 Excellent Illustrations In Web Designs

In website design, there are an endless amount of possibilities, styles and techniques that can be used to make a beautiful design that flows with the content. One of these styles is an illustration-heavy layout, which can take a website to a whole new level. Illustrations are becoming more and ...

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Movie Website Designs: Examples And Current Practices

Movie Website Designs: Examples And Current Practices

It can be an interesting experience looking around at websites in particular industries to identify trends and see how they differ from those in other industries. In this article, we'll take a look at the websites of major motion pictures to see what types of websites are being created. Movies ...

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50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

2006 was rich on creative, beautiful and unusual design concepts. We’ve seen a lot of whitespace, many examples of readable and usable text-design, badges, stars, rounded corners, shapes, gradients, mirror and 3D-effects – just name it. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful designs we’ve seen ...

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Dilectio: A Smashing Wordpress Theme

Dilectio: A Smashing Wordpress Theme

Update (22.12.2007): the theme had some comment errors; Elena has just fixed them. Please download the new version, you’ll find the links below. Over the last year Elena Gafita, the creative mind behind Design Disease team, has designed a number of free WordPress themes, as the Smashing WordPress Theme we released ...

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Creativity Spark From Masters Of Illustration

Creativity Spark From Masters Of Illustration

Creative thinking is an essential part of design workflow. Whatever sketch you are working on, at some point you find yourself in the situation where you simply need some fresh ideas to find your path around the creativity block. Going away may help. Listening to the music may help. But ...

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Wanted: Your 404 Error Pages

Wanted: Your 404 Error Pages

Every day you visit one of them. The pages, which don’t exist any longer, have moved to a new server or have never existed at all. Once you’ve missed your intended destination, either through a bad or outdated link, or a typo in the page you were hoping to reach, ...

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Web Design Trends For 2009

Web Design Trends For 2009

We Web designers are a fickle lot. We love to experiment with things. We love to observe how people interact with our work. And we love to try out unusual design approaches that might possibly go mainstream and become a classic approach. As a result, new design approaches come up, ...

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404 Error Pages: Reloaded

404 Error Pages: Reloaded

Three weeks ago we’ve showcased some of the most beautiful, creative and user-friendly 404 Error Pages; we’ve collected some interesting ideas one can use to help out the visitors once they got lost ony your page. We’ve also asked our readers to design their own 404 pages and promised ...

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Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs

Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs

We all love beautiful, usable and impressive web designs. To achieve them, web developers need to focus on many aspects, but basically it all boils down to the question, how well the content is presented and how easily the information can be perceived. Harmonic color schemes are as important as ...

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Style Switchers Are Back: Ideas, Examples and a Contest

Style Switchers Are Back: Ideas, Examples and a Contest

Style switchers are used to provide users with a choice of layouts, fonts, colors and views they can use to adapt the design to their personal needs. Designs with style switchers are more flexbile, more adaptive and more user-friendly as different visitors can quickly modify the design for their personal ...

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404 Error Pages, One More Time

404 Error Pages, One More Time

The design of 404 error pages is often overlooked and underestimated. However, designed carefully, these pages can make a random visitor stay on your website, take a look around and eventually find the information he or she was looking for in the first place. Effective 404 error pages communicate why ...

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50 Beautiful Flash Websites

50 Beautiful Flash Websites

Flash enabled designers and developers to deliver rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and an impressive visual experience. Good Flash-sites do not require too much bandwidth, load fast and allow for a smooth interaction; besides, beautiful Flash-based sites are Photoshop masterpieces, transporting some kind of reality and fantasy ...

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10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website

10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website

by Lee Munroe You may have a personal portfolio website for a number of reasons. If you’re a freelancer, then you’d need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you. If you’re a student (or unemployed), then you’d need one to show prospective employers how good you are ...

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Showcase of Web Design in Russia

Showcase of Web Design in Russia

This article is the first of our new series “Global Web Design“. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of the world and taking a close look of what is happening in the web design scene worldwide. We start ...

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83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen

83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen

Sometimes it’s just like searching for a needle in a haystack: if you’ve ever googled for free and quality Wordpress Themes, you know exactly what we’re talking about. Most designers love to create Wordpress themes, so they can demonstrate the quality of their work and ...

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45 Excellent Blog Designs

45 Excellent Blog Designs

Designing a blog is easy. Whatever engine you are using and whatever style you prefer, you’ll always find a number of templates you can apply to your weblog in seconds. No styling is necessary, no playing with colors is needed and no mind jogging about content presentation is required. However, ...

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Inspirational PDF Magazines

Inspirational PDF Magazines

PDF magazines are a great promotional tool used by companies and collectives. They are quick to put together, can be attached to emails, or made available as free downloads. Numerous visual arts publications from around the world are available for you to draw inspiration from. These magazines serve as excellent ...

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