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40 Beautiful and Creative Website Footers. 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs. Note: This post was originally published on the 18th of November, 2008. Fundamentally any weblog would be made up of header, sidebar, content section and footer. In the eye of a visitor, the footer is perhaps one of the most unnoticeable sections, but to a designer who knows how important user experience, navigation, and designs are, they are treated the same.

That said, the footer will not be anything less important compared to the header (or masthead) Footer contents vary from developer/author’s short bio, recent articles, Flickr photos, quick links, and so on, but it’s interesting to find out how designers prioritize their footer. Here’s a compilation of 49 Blog Footer Designs collected everywhere from the blogosphere. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 43folders 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 Pages. Are you tired of the boring and unhelpful 404 error pages on most websites? Do you wish that companies would put a little more effort into designing an engaging and creative page to greet you when you stumble upon a broken link?

Well, you’re in luck! We’ve scoured the web and compiled a list of 60 cool and creative error 404 pages that will blow your mind. From cute animals holding signs apologizing for the mistake to interactive games that will keep you entertained while you wait for the page to load, these error pages are not only visually appealing but also serve a purpose. A well-designed 404 page can turn a frustrating experience into a memorable one and even direct users to other parts of the website. So without further ado, let’s dive into volume 1 of our collection and get inspired by these amazing error 404 pages. Creative Error 404 Pages, Vol. 2 Creative Error 404 Pages, Vol. 2 The Error 404 page is like a little-hidden world that you often hope no one will see.

50 Gorgeous Navigation Menus. Ease of navigation is one of the biggest keys to the usability of a website. If visitors can easily find what they are looking for they will be more likely to stay on the website rather than leaving and going to some other site. Effective navigation can help to increase pageviews, improve the user experience, and even increase revenue and profit. As more and more users are accessing sites via mobile devices, responsive web design has continued to increase in popularity.

One of the challenges of designing and developing responsive websites is to create a user-friendly navigation menu that works equally well for visitors on all types of devices. While a few years ago navigational menus were a primary visual element in almost every web design, many responsive websites are now opting for a navigation menu that is much less dominant visually. These sites typically use a familiar icon of 3 horizontal stripes to indicate that a menu will be opened on click. Looking for hosting? 24 Beautiful and Creative Website Headers. 25 Super Cool Paper Inspired Website Designs.

One of my favourite ‘styles’ in web design is one that takes inspiration from traditional media such as paper and cardboard. Using scans and images of paper provides an informal, cut-and-paste collage feeling to the design giving the site more of a personal and hand-crafted image – quite opposite to the clean and shiny trend of other web design styles. Here are 25 good examples of this super cool paper based effect put into practice. Join the mailing list to have every new post hand delivered to your email inbox. Every subscriber gets a FREE bundle of 40+ icons, vectors, brushes & textures! 40 Beautiful Dark CSS Website Designs. 50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs.

Advertisement Design portfolios come in various forms. Traditionally, they have been print-based and something you would carry to a client pitch or meeting to showcase what you’ve done and how you did it. Today, many designers take advantage of the Internet to publish and showcase their work via their online portfolios. Having your work displayed online removes the geographical restraints that traditional portfolios impose on you. With many portfolios online, it’s often hard to stand out from the sea of competition out there. In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of beautiful, unique and highly creative portfolio designs. You may also want to take a look at the following related articles: Creating A Successful Online Portfolio1031 In this article, we review five pitfalls that commonly plague portfolio design. 50 Beautiful and Creative Portfolios Pikaboo2 This portfolio showcases a creative navigation scheme; use the scroll button on the mouse to navigate up and down the showcase.

40 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Websites. 57 Vector Characters. Grunge Design Inspiration Showcase. Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now The grunge style is one of the most popular in modern web design. In this post we’ll take a look a variety of inspirational sources and some resources that can help you with your own grunge-style design.

We’ll look at websites with a grunge style, grunge icons, tutorials for grunge design, textures, and Photoshop brushes. 1. Grunge-Style Websites Matt Brett Pain is Good darklight Bart-Jan Verhoef Satsu Biola Undergrad Bridge55 Bristol Archive Records The Lippincott Brad Candullo Helmy Bern One Source Marketing {ths} Scouting for Girls Dirty Pretty Things Icons: Small details in a design, such as icons, can often make huge differences in achieving a certain style. Grunge-Style RSS Icons Gungy Olive Icons Distressed Social Media Icons 2. These are some of the best Photoshop tutorials for designing with a grunge style. Design a Cartoon Grunge Website Layout How to Create a Grunge Web Design in Photoshop Ultimate Grunge Design Tutorial God of War Text 3. 30 Beautiful Examples of Grunge in Web Design.

Grunge is a stylish design trend that gives web designs a less uniform, less structured, and more organic look-and-feel. It’s characterized by textured/gritty backgrounds, uneven/torn edges, worn, faded and aged graphic elements inspired by urban and industrial architecture and scenery. It gives a way for designers to venture away from the glossy, flashy, and rigid design elements that characterize the "Web 2.0"style – a style that still dominates mainstream web design. In this collection, you’ll find 30 excellent examples of grunge in web design for your inspiration. From portfolios and fashion websites to online stores and church sites – you’ll find a variety of websites that choose to "dirty up" their web design. Cogitatur The Lippincott Von Dutch Originals Bridge55 James Lai Creative Biola Undergrad The Trian Woodburns revolution church Jared Campbell nYq Design Studio Jeremy Zevin Sarah Hyland Casio Exilim Lab The Farmer & The Chef Syc Fuk Red9ine Tattoos Xperience 08 Meagan Fisher Soma Communities.

50 Beautiful Blog Designs. Advertisement There are things one can do a number of times without worrying about becoming boring. For instance, collecting and showcasing excellent blog designs. In this post we do it already the fifth time. Why? Web design lives in blogs; new developments appear there, that’s where the music plays. And that’s where you need to look for in order to keep up with current trends and developments. In the showcase below we present 50 beautiful blog designs that literally stand out — either through their layout or through their design or through their attention to little details.

We strongly encourage designers to break out the common layout conventions, experiment with new approaches and risk crazy ideas. You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Beautiful Blog Designs Acko.net5 Standards for Life by Natalie Jost6 Wishingline7 Langgatan 3a8 Loodo.com.br9 Matblogg.se10 Kyle Haskins11 Pays Sud Gatine12 Ali Felski13 L’effet Créa14 Gisele Jaquenod15 Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyeard Book16. 40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008. 2008 has brought some big changes in the design trends. One of the major ones was the end of the so called “glossy revolution“, the wrongful design interpretation of the web 2.0 current. You know what I am talking about : the glossy, vivid and colorful logos and website designs, the major usage of reflections and two tone colors.

This style is used less and less, and some new design trends are starting to emerge (the vintage style seems to be catching on). The sites below are the most representative designs, collected by us for our CSS and Flash Web Gallery. Apart from the showcase we added a little description of each website so you can get an idea what’s it about. If you are looking to print any of these vivid pages,make sure your ink cartridges are full first as some are quite colorful Blog Solid Blog Solid is for bloggers and those interested in blogging as an exciting and effective way of communicating. Dana’s Garden OLDesign FortySeven Media Efingo Caty Design Studio Saizen Media Studios. 2008 Design Trends. Most beautiful websites of 2008. For our first yearly wrap up we want to bring you the best 50 CSS and Flash website designs of 2008 handpicked from our website showcase, CLD Web Gallery.

We are looking for contributors We are looking for talented bloggers, that want to promote themselves and their websites by writing articles for our blog. The topics we are interested in are : Graphic Design, Web Design, Flash, Photoshop, Vectorial Graphics, Design Inspiration, Programming, Print Design, Design Resources, photography or just “top 10 articles”. If you like the idea and want to submit an article or just want to find out more, please visit our Contributors Page. Best of CSS Design 2008. Last December, I posted a list of the best designs in 2007.

Now, it is time for — Best of CSS Design 2008 (a new list of 50 websites hand-picked from Best Web Gallery). This year, more designers are using the large background technique and utilizing Javascript frameworks (such as jQuery and MooTools) to enchance the user experience. I also came across a few designs that mixed Flash with CSS; perhaps a new trend we should look for in 2009?

Let It Bleed Big bold visual images make this website stand out from the crowd. Vermont Coffee Works Good use of Flash mixed with CSS. Digital Mash Good Good visual and content-focused design. Wilson Miner DrupalCon, DC Future of Web Apps - Miami 2009 An excellent mixture of big font and grungy effects. Housing Works Nice use of large background on the homepage. Future of Web Design - NYC 2008 Another nice example of large background design. Tennessee - Fall I have to admit, Tennessee's sites are one of the best series — Fall, Spring, Summer, and Winter. Five Runs. Top 100 Web Designs in 2008. 100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design. We live in a world of information saturation, and that translates to web design. In such a competitive world, it becomes more and more important to stand out by breaking conventions. Sometimes it’s about layout, sometimes about the graphics and cool illustrations or anything else that can be different from others.

In this post, we take a look at 100 websites that look really different from their peers and automatically captivate their audiences with their design of elaborate backgrounds, illustrations, and textures. Is different always good? Let’s take a look and decide by yourself…