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25 Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration Startup Framework Close 25 Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration Adrian • Inspiration • March 1, 2011 • 3 Comments One of the trends in web design that is still popular and used today is: keeping it simple. Minimalism is always in fashion and creating a light design is at the same time cool and challenging. It is nice because it looks really good, and it is challenging because it is pretty hard to decide on what elements are the most important and how to arrange them in a way for the design to look really simple and practical.

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