Archive for the ‘Website Showcases’ Category
Every website is special in its own way. Some websites provide easy navigation, others extraordinary animations or fascinating graphics. And today we’d like to focus on websites which you shouldn’t scroll. Don’t you agree it’s so nice to see what the site is about just as soon as you enter it?
No doubt there are a lot of great websites which are designed to be very long but sometimes you don’t want to scroll, you just want to open the site and see what it has to offer. If you share our point of you you’ll definitely enjoy the websites featured below.
Creativeedgesol.com
Merry Christmas to everyone who reads it! May the Christmas season fill your home with joy, your heart with love and your life with laughter. May it bring you success and happiness!
No doubt you’ve already seen hundreds if not thousands of houses decorated with Christmas lights and yard decorations. And what about browsing different websites which have been decorated with Christmas elements and graphics? We thought that would be fun and here are 10 websites which look extremely attractive this holiday season.
Have you noticed how many websites and website templates successfully use variations of circles? That would be nice to learn why it happens so, wouldn’t it?
A circle isn’t just a geometrical figure; it has a lot of meanings. First of all, a circle is the symbol of the sun and the earth and the universe. Also, it symbolizes perfection, wholeness and peace.
There are different reasons why web designers use circles. To name just a few of them:
Circles are good when it comes to grabbing visitors’ attention and providing emphasis
Circles look fresh and unusual
Circles work great in a single color and two color designs
And now we encourage you to see websites and web templates which are decorated with circles.
Constantinpotorac.com
Throughout human history, trees have been powerful symbols. So what is the meaning of a tree? A tree has always been a symbol of life and hope, joy and peace, stability and strength as well as renewal. We shouldn’t forget about the importance of the Christmas tree, Family tree, the Tree of Life, the Tree of Knowledge, etc.
Trees are often used to represent nature or the environment itself. They can protect us against the sun and storm, they give us the material for building houses and the trees can also give us food. As you’ll see below trees are also powerful sources of inspiration. To prove this statement we have collected a lot of websites that use the pictures of trees, tree vectors, illustrations of trees, etc. Some sites show lonely trees, others show groups of trees or even a shadow of a tree.
Imagine that all websites you’ll find below make a beautiful garden and when you walk through this “garden” please remember the words of Minnie Aumonier, “There’s always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it”.
Soundsplash.motherland.co.nz
A while back there were a lot of sites that use floral elements. Currently their number has reduced. Still, many web designers keep up with this trend. This article aims to show you the sites that are still decorated with floral elements and also find out if flower illustrations, floral brushes, floral vectors and icons are still popular in web design.
Some people believe floral elements look outdated and boring. See what Jacqueline of WebDesignLedger.com says about it, “These embellishments are often created to emphasize an artsy site, and can be done very well, especially if the designer is particularly gifted in graphic art. The problem is that this look has been seen in an obscene amount of sites, and is no longer fresh or unexpected. The flowers are dying.”
To my mind floral elements still look up to date because each of them is a true piece of art that can never be reproduced. We are sure the more unique designs the better.
Today we hope to hear your opinion. Look through 13 websites that use floral elements and answer a simple question, “Do you think designers should avoid floral elements in their works or not?” Please explain your point of view in comments.
Virushka.cz
There are hundreds of web design galleries on the Web and each one claims to be unique.
We all know that CSS Galleries are great for improving your website’s traffic and page rank. Also, these sites are wonderful sources of inspiration. The only drawback is that it takes a lot of time to find regularly updated CSS Galleries that really work. Hope our post will make this task easier for you.
However, the main aim of this post is not to list all existing showcase sites but answer a simple question, “What background is the best for a CSS gallery?” We believe a good way to find the right answer is to compare the most popular backgrounds; black and white to be exact.
Please take a few minutes to see 6 CSS Galleries listed below. Three of them come with black backgrounds and three of them come with white backgrounds. After you see them all, leave a little comment what background works best.
Best Joomla Design .com
Web Designers and Their Websites
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of a web designer? As for me it’s talent, great web design skills, never-ending creativity, portfolio, original websites, extraordinary ideas, and etc. Web designers may or may not have advanced degrees. Many website designers are self-taught, starting on their own and learning design skills and design languages as they develop pages.
It’s not a secret that designers are considered to be extremely creative people. This post aims to review some of the most impressive web designer portfolios. Talented designers are always busy with someone else’s projects and we are going to see if the proverb “ever busy, ever bare” is a right one.
No doubt each web designer is like a trendsetter in the world of web design. So let’s see the way designers express themselves while they create their own websites. Do they follow any web design trends or they simply design the way they feel?
It’s time to browse websites made by web designers for web designers.
galleri.it
Cobweb on the web
World Wide Web is like an information spider web or information cobweb. It grabs different information and holds it inside. So being a net surfer we become involved in a huge information cobweb.
Ross Perot has mentioned, “Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.” World Wide Web seems to be disorganized as well: so many links, so many paths to follow. But it’s only the first impression. If you look deeper into this you’ll understand that World Wide Web is well organized. While the spider webs appear messy and disorganized, the World Wide Web is a place where everything can be easily found if you know the right words or keywords. Links between websites, blogs, online shops and photo galleries are invisible but they would look something similar to spider lines if we could see them.
Seems World Wide Web should treat its prototype cobweb respectfully and represent it on the net in the most remarkable way. Let’s see if this supposition is true.
If you try to find out the way cobweb is introduced online the first thing you’ll find is a picture of a natural cobweb. There are lots of cobweb images and cobweb wallpapers on the net. It means people like decorating their desktops with cobwebs. Frankly speaking each cobweb is a unique example of spider’s work and it always looks original and even mysterious in some way.
And now it’s time to browse websites which have some elements of cobweb in their design. Browsing these websites it’s easy to notice that cobweb images and cobweb graphics add some mystery to these designs.
Cobwebdesigns.org.uk
