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Whet Your Appetite with These Tasty Recipe Site Designs

July 27, 2011 By Sophia Lucero Leave a Comment

Whet Your Appetite with These Tasty Recipe Site Designs

Recipe sites have this tendency to cram so much stuff on their pages that instead of being helpful, they get in the way of finding the perfect dish for that meal you’re planning. These sites, however, are redefining the culinary experience by providing beautifully-designed and user-friendly experiences on the web, and hopefully in your kitchen. […]

Filed Under: Design Critiques

David DeSandro’s guided portfolio & new-age image map

May 18, 2010 By Sophia Lucero Leave a Comment

David DeSandro’s guided portfolio & new-age image map

Aside from creating brilliantly art-directed articles that push the limits in with the latest HTML and CSS features, David DeSandro is redefining at least two classic site features at the same time with his Portfolio page: The portfolio format. Most portfolios consist of image thumbnails with either short or detailed descriptions about each project undertaken. […]

Filed Under: Design Critiques Tagged With: art direction, CSS, css3, david desandro, design concepts, good design, html, html5, image map, inspiration, portfolio, screenshot

Pitchfork.tv Splash Page Bring It

March 7, 2008 By Thord Daniel Hedengren Leave a Comment

Pitchfork.tv Splash Page Bring It

Indie music site Pitchfork will launch a music web TV channel (or whatever you want to call it) on April 7. The splash page for this channel is great:

Filed Under: Design Critiques Tagged With: Pitchfork, Pitchfork.tv, splash screen

Design Critique: Read/WriteWeb

January 25, 2008 By Thord Daniel Hedengren 13 Comments

Design Critique: Read/WriteWeb

Read/WriteWeb is a great site, content-wise, I read it from time to time – I especially like Marshall Kirkpatrick’s writing style. Actually, all sites in the RWW Network, being Last100 and AltSearchEngine, as well as the podcast Read/WriteTalk, all reek of quality. That’s nice. What’s not as nice is the design the flagship site, Read/WriteWeb […]

Filed Under: Design Critiques Tagged With: AltSearchEngine, Last100, Read/WriteWeb

A Nice Sidebar Design

December 8, 2007 By Thord Daniel Hedengren 2 Comments

A Nice Sidebar Design

With all the sidebar (and footer) bashing I’ve been doing lately, I thought I’d share a nice sidebar design with you, and tell you why I like it. Enter Blog Perfume, which has a decent design overall, clean and sober, yet modern and with things happening. I’m no fan of the header, the background makes […]

Filed Under: Design, Design Critiques Tagged With: Blog Perfume, Feedburner, good design, sidebar

Fun With Design: “In Case You Missed These”

October 29, 2007 By Ryan Imel 2 Comments

Sometimes design is funny. Or, at the very least, commentary on said design is funny. Check these out, in case you missed them. NYT on Windows Vista David Pogue in a YouTube clip explaining (sarcastically, in case you miss it) that Windows Vista is nothing like Mac OS X. Ignore the flurry of useless comments […]

Filed Under: Design Critiques, Video

Battle of the Pointless Services

October 22, 2007 By J David Macor 4 Comments

Battle of the Pointless Services

They are all the rage right now. Everybody uses them. They are being blogged about every day. Hell, people feature them in their sidebar! I am of course referring to those incomprehensible “update” services. Twitter and Pownce are the major players in this market; the two real powers. One the established giant (if such a […]

Filed Under: Being the Hype, Design Critiques

New Look Lounge And List

September 12, 2007 By J David Macor 4 Comments

New Look Lounge And List

Two of the best looking websites recently changed their look. Devlounge and Ordered List have been leaders in the blogging community for some time. But that is not all they have in common; they are also both 9Rules defectors. However, I do not want to dwell on that, because it will only lead to trouble. […]

Filed Under: 9rules, Design Critiques

Top Heavy Designs

August 29, 2007 By J David Macor 1 Comment

Top Heavy Designs

The layout of a design leads the reader through a web page. It guides your eyes down a page and hopefully you end up at the content. The question is, how long does or should it take for you to get to the content? Well, to a degree, this should depend on the type of […]

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Forget About The Fold: Skysports Redesign, Less Is Less.

August 14, 2007 By Franky 2 Comments

Forget About The Fold: Skysports Redesign, Less Is Less.

When Skysports launched their redesign 2 weeks ago, they’ve forgotten one thing. The new CSS-based design is visually appealing, and contains everything one expects from a modern news portal. Enough of whitespace, integrated social bookmarking links and comments. But it lacks in one area: usability. While the page height has been drastically reduced all over […]

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Web Design Tools You Wish You Knew About When First Designing Your Website

Web Design Tools You Wish You Knew About When First Designing Your Website

It’s easy to have perfect vision in hindsight, but when designing a website a little planning ahead can give you a perfect vision from the get-go. Many web designers find themselves performing redundant tasks, or creating things with manual effort that could otherwise be automated. Check out these useful web design tools that you’ll be […]

Best Resources to Use for Web Design Ideas

Best Resources to Use for Web Design Ideas

Web designers may have their own ideas when creating a layout design for a website but similar to writers, they also experience the so-called mental block syndrome at certain times. Fortunately, the web has a wealth of information available and designers can always turn to it for inspiration. It may surprise you to know that […]

The “Horrible Web Design Client:” An Infographic Look

The “Horrible Web Design Client:” An Infographic Look

Web design is a new frontier in creative designing. It takes a special set of design skills to make an effective web site. A good web site is not just pretty to look at, or filled with a lot of cool Flash animations, it is also easily navigable, with well laid out elements that are […]

Pagelines PlatformPro 1.3 – The Upgrade

Pagelines PlatformPro 1.3 – The Upgrade

PlatformPro 1.3, the latest upgraded version of the successful PlatformPro Theme by PageLines, has finally hit the market. Packed with 20 or so new options and features, it has undergone some major changes; the most important of which are listed here: The new Web Typography tool provides direct integration with Google’s Font API. This provides […]

Design tip: use extraordinary imagery

Design tip: use extraordinary imagery

Drawn.ca has posted 2 interesting sources of atypical imagery which, I realized, can be great design inspiration: First, Dogfoose uses close-up images of produce in his illustrations. The sample below uses broccoli as treetops for a kids magazine illustration: What an amusing way to channel the miniature look (achieved through tilt-shift photography) for infographics purposes! […]

iThemes Builder – Your one-stop WordPress Theme Builder

iThemes Builder – Your one-stop WordPress Theme Builder

This revolutionary new theme is incredibly easy to install – simply upload it into the themes folder, click activate – that’s it! As with all their themes, iThemes have included a My Themes widget, providing links to special features within the theme itself, as well as relevant information for the configuration of WordPress. The layout […]

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