We haven’t visited this web element since last year or so… so I think it was well over due. Web headers are a great place for designers to express the creativity and design skills. With big monitors becoming more popular, a lot of web headers will bleed into the layout or take up a nice [...]

Colour is one of the most important weapons in a designer’s arsenal. Proper use of colour can take a ‘good’ design and make it GREAT.

Scouring the web, you see every colour imaginable, and that’s why we love making these colour themed posts. It’s just fun looking through a post and seeing the same colour scheme and not to mention it helps to search by colour when you are in need of some inspiration.

A great way to add depth to a website these days is to help create more of a dynamic environment, or portray a lifelike material. These days, you can’t go a day without seeing at least 5 or 6 tweets about free textures, or “Retweet to win premium textures”. We are even guilty for offering [...]

With internet speeds being faster then ever, more and more websites are pushing the limits with HD videos, animations and huge beautiful images. These websites showcase websites that use large photos to portray their message. The web content, and functions lay over top, and in some cases the photo brings a really great sense of [...]

I love these posts that revolve around colours, whether its minimalist white websites, or multi-coloured in your face websites, or more elegant dark websites. We featured 43 Decent Dark Websites about a year ago… it was part of a black vs white set of posts.

A couple of months ago we posted “25 Flourish Designs” and people spoke up about their appreciation and respect for this classic design element. This post again highlights some excellent usage of “the flourish” in today’s online world.

With the internet moving faster and faster, users wanting more and quicker, some designers try to give the user everything all at one – on one single page. This works very well with portfolios, when you don’t need to leave the page or site to see a full source of portfolio pieces.

Cartoon Websites and Characters was very well received and we had a lot of people comment and write in. I decided to create part 2 to add some of those suggestions in, along with a few more examples of Cartoon Websites and Characters used today.

The automotive industry is gloomy – we all know it. I am always inspired by the big corporate ad campaigns that they roll out every quarter. Automotive companies spend a lot of time and money on their brand, – some lack the “pizzaz” that others have – but do you blame the brand or the [...]