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Every week of 2011 I’ve showcased the best website designs I’ve come across during my every day browsing of the web. This special end of year post features the best of the best, pulling together the awesomest designs from all 2011 Sites of the Week posts into one showcase of super cool designs.
The good old slideshow is one Javascript powered effect that will never go out of fashion. Slideshows are often used to showcase multiple images sequentially, or to feature a site’s popular content at the top of the homepage. This collection of jQuery plugins and tutorials will help you create your own jQuery powered slideshow, with various styles and options to choose from.
Website designs come along in all kinds of colours and tones, from muted greys right through to psychedelic mixes of every colour imaginable. This post rounds up a showcase of some of the best web designs from every colour in the spectrum, featuring vibrant designs using reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues and purples.
People always ask what font I use to create my annotated code examples in my web design tutorials here on Line25, so I figured a roundup of the best hand drawn fonts would prove quite handy. This post rounds up a range of free fonts based on various handwriting styles. If you’re in need of a font to add a human touch to your design in the form of a note or a personal message, you can be sure you’ll find the perfect font in this collection.
Over the past few years the number of fonts available for use in web design has dramatically increased. It wasn’t long ago that we all knew not to stray further than the basic Arial, Helvetica, Times, Georgia mix, but now there’s a range of services that allow the use of almost any font imaginable in your website design. This post rounds up the various custom web font solutions and looks at the pros and cons of each.
Designers are always taking inspiration from the past and are even using styles from 100′s of years ago to give their designs a vintage themed appearance. This posts rounds up a collection of the best websites based on the vintage design style, with elegant typography, detailed linework illustrations and aged textures all helping achieve that antique effect.
In this digital age of clean and crisp lines there’s nothing better than seeing hand drawn illustrations in the designs of websites and interfaces. Hand drawn doodles and sketches really help inject character and personality into a design, and give a fun and friendly appearance to the overall website. This showcase rounds up 25 inspiring examples of websites featuring super cool hand drawn illustrations, from quirky hand drawn typography to cute character doodles.