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Moving Image Web Designs
As I’ve covered in a few previous posts, adding some motion to your website is a great way to create visual attention. This could be created in a low-tech way by using animated gifs, or it’s possible to use CSS trickery, Flash, or video backgrounds. Regardless of the method, it’s important to employ motion in…
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Interior and Exterior Location Design
Computer graphics have advanced an incredible amount in detail, and when combined with photography in a form of digital matte painting, near-lifelike scenes can be created as visualiziations, mockups or renders. While most of the CG renders of locations seem like they came out of an old videogame, some studios put in the time and…
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Creative Examples of Animated Web Design
These days, with the use of HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery (or alternately, Flash), integrating animation into a web design is more possible than ever before. Integrating a bit of animation or motion in a design is a creative way to add visual hierarchy or highlight areas of interest. A few great ways to integrate animation…
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Spooky and Awesome Halloween Characters
Halloween is fast approaching, and most people are planning their parties and costumes well in advance. Halloween is one of the most popular holidays around the world, and parents are now getting ready to come up with cute and adorable costumes for their children. But Halloween can also be a bit spookier, with monsters, scary…
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Examples of Sports & Activity Web Designs
Despite the ever-increasing number of sports and activities that are readily available to people, the amount of physical activity that the average person gets is declining. Although with globalization, cultures are exposed more to new activities, it’s also led to inactivity due to both technology, changes in work and lifestyle, as well as inundation with…
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Fun and Playful Web Designs
While a serious tone is often seen in most professional design, it’s largely a result of demographics and targeting. A business application targeting IT professionals is likely to maintain a simplistic, serious and straightforward style. However, for freelance designers, social apps, and niche retailers, it’s often desirable to project an atmosphere of fun or playfulness.…
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Creative Uses of Background Patterns in Web Design
One of the places that many beginning designers ignore is the background of a website design. They are so focused on the foreground user interface elements, sleek navigation menus, modal boxes and icons that they neglect one of the key areas of web design that can be leveraged for a huge benefit. There is nothing…
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Fresh Examples of Pixel Perfect iOS Icons
Fresh off their lawsuit victory over Samsung, Apple is continuing to see their market influence grow and the number of applications flooding the app store is incredible, with applications for every purpose, feature and concept imaginable. The one type of design that makes iOS applications interesting is the icon design. The icon sizing and types…
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Stunning Interior Renders of Commercial Environments
For commercial businesses such as stores and food shops, the interior design of the location is critical to maintaining a respected image. Most people instantly notice if a location is dirty, and even if it’s clean, consumers are affected by the perceived quality of the design and effort. After all, if they can’t look professional,…
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Innovative Single Page Website Designs
These days, it seems as though websites are becoming more and more complex. With galleries, multiple pages, blog posts, forms and other pages, many users are finding that it’s hard to find the content that actually matters. To combat this, designers and developers have begun using some neat tricks, such as tabbed layouts, and single…
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Pixel Perfect Bike Website Designs
Biking is one of the most popular pasttimes in the world, and it’s also still a widely used mode of transportation, particularly in underdeveloped areas and also in big cities. There are tons of sites devoted to biking, and also plenty of bike shops, so to stand out from the crowd, biking companies and teams…
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Unusually Structured Web Designs
These days, most websites are following the same structure. Header navigation, a lightbox, some content with a sidebar, and a footer. Although the familiarity does help with usability, familiarity also breeds contempt and the common structure is getting a bit tedious. For some web designers, they have decided to break the mold. With a bit…
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