Everyone loves lightbox JavaScript effects and since the original Lightbox script, there have been countless plugins and clones generated for all the popular JavaScript libraries. This collection rounds up the top ten jQuery lightbox plugins and scripts in particular, so remember to keep it bookmarked for your next design project!
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Showcase of Websites with Illustrated Backgrounds
One of my favorite styles of web design is the combination of hand drawn elements with digital interfaces. This showcase rounds up a collection of web designs with illustrated backgrounds. Check them out and see what makes them special, practical and eye-catching for the visitors. These websites all use illustrated backgrounds and different styles you’ll be inspired by, from using cartoonish illustrations, to detailed, modern vector art.
25 Interactive HTML Websites That Look Like Flash
Remember those cool interactive media-rich websites that were built with Flash? They would often feature full-screen layouts, animated elements and futuristic interfaces that made HTML websites look plain and boring.
Wood Textures in Web Design: Showcase of 15 Websites
This post rounds up a showcase of web designs that are all helping make the wood texture cool again. Wood textures in web design aren’t anything new, actually, they were pretty trendy after the days of “web 2.0” until they kind of lost their coolness.
50+ Inspiring Examples of Ultra Minimal Web Design
We’ve all heard the saying “less is more”. Sometimes stripping away all the gimmicks and fancy elements from our layouts and focusing on the core design principles can result in a much more aesthetically pleasing web design. This post showcases some of the best examples of ultra minimal web design. Get inspired!
20 Great Examples of the Flat Trend in Web Design
The flat trend in web design has recently gained a lot of popularity and we started noticing lots of website and interface designs springing up with this design style. We’ve seen the use of solid colors increase through the adoption of the flat design trend, but these hues are becoming increasingly vibrant following the release of new iOS and new iPhone. Dazzling RGB colors are becoming more popular in the latest website designs, with saturation levels at an all-time high.
25 Examples of Super Wide Website Designs
As monitor resolutions become larger, websites tend to become wider. This showcase features 25 awesome website designs over 1000px in width.
Many of these super wide website designs are built as responsive layouts, which allows the designer to accommodate even the largest of screen sizes with the max-width property without chopping off elements on smaller resolutions.
Showcase of Trendy Hipster Style Website Designs
Hipsters are described as valuing vintage styles, disconnecting themselves from mainstream trends and commonly being involved in the creative industries. If website designs could be described as being hipster, this showcase features some perfect examples!
Interesting Web Design Trend: Vertical Split Layouts
We do a fair bit of trend spotting while we’re browsing for cool website designs to feature in our inspirational web design roundups. One design trend we’ve noticed that is becoming more and more popular is the split layout, where the page is divided vertically into two halves to display separate areas of content. Often these two halves are contrasting with light and dark color schemes and allow the user to make a decision on the type of content they want to see.
15+ Mockups to Showcase Your Responsive Web Designs
A fully responsive web design is all about ensuring a website will display and function perfectly on any device, be it a smartphone, tablet or laptop. In today’s post, we’ve rounded up 15 mockups to showcase your responsive web designs, which will help you show your clients how their websites will look like on all types of screen sizes.
