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30 Awesome Orange Websites For Your Inspiration

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by bmackler.

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When you have a project that has a specific color requirement it can sometimes feel like you are creatively limited, that you can’t have fun with your design and you are perhaps boxed in. While this does happen with many colors, one that is not the case with is orange, as I learned recently on a [...]

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30 Retro and Vintage Websites For Design Inspiration

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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What’s old is new again. Retro and vintage web designs have been a popular design style for a while now but recently they have become even more visible and in demand . For your design inspiration, here are 30 classy and wonderful retro/vintage websites for you to enjoy. Below you will see that [...]

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17 Must Have Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers and Developers

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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These days its safe to say that Firefox is the most popular browser among web designers and developers. With such a crowded browser field, staying at the top of the heap takes alot of work. One of the leading factors that make Firefox the preferred browser is it’s massive library of great plugins and [...]

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16 Awesome Websites from the Music Industry

Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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You can find amazing and inspirational web designs in just about every genre; sites that pull you in, wow you, and create a lasting experience… setting themselves apart from the competition. This couldn’t be any more true than in the music industry. Just like the various types of music in this industry there are [...]

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Top 15 Hotel and Resort Websites for Inspiration

Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Today we will be reviewing the top 15 hotels and resorts websites worldwide. Among the list are some of the most expensive in the world, costing over $20,000 a night! It won’t be hard to see why these sites are an amazing source of inspiration. They follow alot of the trends we have discussed [...]

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20 Grunge Style Websites that Rock

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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One of the fastest growing web design styles has been grunge. You will notice it right when you see it…Characterized mainly by irregular and crooked visual elements, textured and gritty backgrounds, jagged edges and faded out elements. This style is in direct contrast to the Web 2.0 craze, which maintains very straight lines along [...]

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The 20 Best E-Commerce Website Designs

Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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The e-commerce sector has long been known to develop websites that did not put much focus on design. They tend to get very cluttered and bogged down, consistently suffering from not being user friendly. If they were actual store fronts, they would most likely go out of business as a result of bad presentation.
Today [...]

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10 Best Prep School and College Websites

Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Good educational websites share much of the same desirable practices as commercial websites. They need to be user friendly, easily navigable, and use appropriate fonts, colors, and other design elements. Sadly, many schools have decided to take the easy road and duplicate standard layouts and functionality, as if they were all taken [...]

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Top 20 Awesome Single Page Layouts

Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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A growing trend that I discussed previously is single page web designs. It has been gaining popularity over the past year and I think will become even more popular far into 2010. It’s amazing to see what a designer is able to do with a single page layout.
We will now take a look at a [...]

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15 Creative Website Navigation/Menu Bars

Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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A site’s navigation menu is usually the first thing that users see when they visit a website. These days there are many ways to design a navigation menu , not just horizontal or vertical – and since just about every website has navigation – it is vital that designers push their creativity [...]