Website layout designs naturally tend to make use of horizontal and vertical lines due to the blocky nature of the coding behind them, but designers are breaking free from these constraints by using dynamic angles in their designs. Sometimes these angled lines are simply background images created in Photoshop, but others are animated elements made directly in code. Check out today’s web design showcase to see some great examples of website interfaces with angled lines.
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8 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Website Builder
It is always hard to start something new. Even now, before writing this post I have spent almost half an hour thinking about where and how to begin. The same is about website building. You have a dream to create a website, what then? You need to shape the destiny of your future site, i.e. to choose its foundation. You make this crucial decision once and further, it will influence the entire website development process, as well as its maintenance and success among users. So what are the main factors making one website building platform better than another and how you can differentiate them?
14 Mockup Templates for Easy Website Hero Images
Hero header images containing various office peripherals and everyday objects are becoming increasingly popular, particularly for design agencies and portfolio websites.
Following this trend can be time-consuming and requires some pretty swish photography equipment, but there are some shortcuts in the form of PSD mockup templates.
In today’s post, we round up a mixture of free and premium mockup templates with ready made tabletop scenes that can be customized to quickly produce cool website hero images.
15 Interesting Infographics Web Designers Will Enjoy
The bold visual design of Infographics makes it easy to digest facts and figures about a given subject. There’s some great infographics based on interesting topics related to web design, from articles explaining the benefits of responsive design to interesting statistics about the industry. In some ways infographics can resemble a zoomed out picture of a webpage that can help with design ideas. Today I showcase 15 interesting Infographics that every web designer will enjoy. Give your scrolling finger some exercise as you browse through this lengthy post. For some additional stunning info graphics to review, check out our other posts here →
25+ iPhone and Apple Watch Mockups
As the world went crazy over the announcement of the iPhone and Apple Watch, designers went straight to work creating mockup templates so their interface designs could be previewed on these new devices.
30 Unofficial Redesigns of Popular Social Media Sites
As web designers we often get frustrated with the UI and UX design of sites we commonly use, with social media sites being right up there as the most annoying! This can lead designers to have a go at redesigning them, albeit unofficially as a personal project just for fun. Sometimes these design concepts are pretty radical, whereas others are so well made we can only wish they were the real deal. Check out this roundup of 30+ unofficial redesigns of Twitter, Facebook & YouTube.
30 Blocky Website Designs Based on a Square Grid
Grids give a website design structure and balance, but some grid layouts are more obvious than others. The most basic of grids is the square block, where the page is divided up horizontally and vertical with equally spaced gridlines. The content then fills the grid like a chequerboard pattern, or elements can span multiple blocks to form larger content areas. Today’s showcase features 30 perfectly balanced sites that are all based on a blocky square grid.
25 Visually Stunning App Dashboard Design Concepts
User dashboards are difficult interfaces to design, as there’s loads of information that needs to be neatly presented to bring the user up to speed, but you don’t want to slap them in the face with tons of data.
Modern Examples of the Classic Sidebar Menu Layout
The sidebar menu seems to be coming back into fashion once again after it was left behind for horizontal navigation bars. The sidebar menu was most common back in the early days of web design, but these days we’re starting to see designers ditch the horizontal nav bar in favour of the vertical list once again. Nowadays though these menus are built with large icons or clever animation effects that allow them to slide in and out of view. Today’s web design showcase features 20 sites that all feature modern examples of the classic sidebar menu layout.
25 Web Designs Built With Unusual Shapes & Angles
Websites are naturally made up of a series of square blocks due to the way they’re coded with HTML. This results in the typical boxy designs we’ve all come to expect on the web, but some designers are breaking free from the limitations of horizontal and vertical lines to experiment with other layouts. Today’s web design showcase features 25 cool sites that think outside the box with unusual shapes and angles.
