Web Design Trends For 2009 - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement We Web designers are a fickle lot.
We love to experiment with things. We love to observe how people interact with our work. And we love to try out unusual design approaches that might possibly go mainstream and become a classic approach. As a result, new design approaches come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them, new trends emerge. Over the last months, we’ve analyzed numerous Web designs, observing emerging trends and weighing the merits of numerous design decisions and coding solutions. This article covers only 10 of the over 25 trends we’ve identified over the last months.
Update: the second part of our review1 is now published as well. Web Design Trends For 2009 Let’s first take a closer look at the main trends we identified, discovered and observed over the last months. Embossing Letterpress Rich user interfaces PNG transparency Big typography Font replacement (sIFR, etc.) Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas - Smas. Advertisement According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important.
Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site elements at the bottom of the page aren’t really able to catch visitors’ attention which is why footers are often forgotten or ignored and not given the attention they deserve. In fact, most footers are rather boring and uninspiring. This post presents creative examples of footers and ideas for footer design. You might also want to take a look at the posts What are footers good for? Basically, footers need to provide users with the information they are looking for. However, you can also use the footer to express something artistic and very personal. Blog designs usually have a bunch of different data hidden or displayed in their footers. CSS Beauty presents its recent forum discussions and job openings at the bottom of the page. 1. Well, that’s quite strange. 2. 3.
Isn’t he sweet? ? Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices - Smashin. Advertisement Web design has come a long way since its beginning, especially in terms of styling.
Take a look at a website from 10 years ago and compare it to one from today. The differences are enormous. One of the major changes you will notice is the background. Today, backgrounds are one of the core features that determine how visually interesting a website is. The background holds the theme of the website, and there are a vast amount of possibilities when designing a website background.
You may also be interested in the following related posts: The Basic Background Structures Before talking about how to design a good background, we need to go over basic background set ups. Body Background The body background is the most “distant” background. Content Background The other level of the structure is the content background. Option 1: Content and Body Background Layered The first structure is multiple layers of backgrounds.
This is one of many styles that use a layered approach. 20 Super Creative Website Menus « PSDFan. A website’s menu is one of the first places that the viewers eye will go to.
For this reason a well designed and clear menu is a vital part of a good web design. Some designs really put in the extra effort with their menus, and it shows! The following 20 designs are super creative, and all show unique and interesting ways to display your websites navigation. Get more of our great design content direct to your inbox Join our newsletter and receive our best weekly content by email. About the Author: Tom is the founder of PSDFAN. Related Posts.