On the web, half of the job is finding out your way through a website to the seeked data, so it’s always a good web design practice helping people to get orientated, even if it’s not strictly necessary.
I find beautiful and useful Bkwld’s gallery pagination because it provides users with an extra bit of information, [...]
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Paginations
Fatcow is an Internet provider and Web hosting service 100% powered by wind energy.
We think their green efforts are absolutely worth being mentioned and we also love their ecological inspired footer.
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Footers
Sometimes you can get tired of perfectly shaped types or you just want for your website’s typography that little organic hint which only a hand drawn font can give you.
If you’re needy for inspiration you can look at Kyle Steed’s portfolio entirely based on his Steed, a nice vector font that Kyle decided to share with [...]
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Typography
If you’re a typography geek as I am, you already know it, but for those rerefied minds that didn’t have yet the pleasure to discover it, Typetees is an online shop dedicated to showcase the best typographical tees available on the web.
The tees are amazing and the overall layout feel is clean, fresh and quite agreable, with [...]
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Paginations,
Typography
A foul-mouthed, obscenely funny 404 error page from South Park Studios’ website. What else could you have been expecting from Kyle Broflovski and Eric Cartama put together in a single web page?
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Copywriting,
Error pages
We love so much Fudge Studios’ layout that we wonder whether we have to be happy for or just loathe the fact a new website is coming up.
This website simulates a photoshop (or generally a graphic editor) workspace soooo well that becomes difficult, if not impossible, writing what we’ve liked most.
The favicon shaped as a [...]
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Ajax & Effects,
Grids & Listings
Zara Picken’s a Bristol-based illustrator that brings us back to the magic Fifties with her clean, marvelous illustration style.
Aside from that, we definitely love Zara’s website structural rigor: broad wide spaces are cut into columns and rows simply by black/gray lines while circle shapes of various kinds play a major role in grabbing user’s attention [...]
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Grids & Listings
Thumbtack is an online marketplace for local services,
a free way to find new clients and manage the ones you already have. Just post your service once, and we’ll take care of the rest. Your service page will go live on Thumbtack instantly.
I love the double-decker search form that allows one to switch from the services offering [...]
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Forms
When you combine two differents web design patterns you can get either a mess or a really interesting new element: in this case, Stuff’s menu gets a compact and solid appearence, having shifted the properties pertaining to breadcrumbs trail to the horizontal menu.
As you can see, home page’s rainbowy menu (at the top of the screenshot) [...]
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Breadcrumbs,
Menu & Navigation
Mobily’s website oddly mixes main navigation (home, about me, contact) with portfolio’s pagination (previous/next).
That’s kind a strange and incorrect from a stricly functionalistic standpoint, but, being this website an one-page website, rather easy to navigate, I don’t think it’s a big deal if the designer wanted to shuffle things a little . Aside form that, the [...]
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Ajax & Effects,
Paginations
While I was… ehm… browsing on Torrentz yesterday night, I got this cute, moving Server Error Page.
Hope the hamsters are feeling better by now.
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Copywriting,
Error pages
When we first saw it, our jaws fell to the floor. Freezed, we’ve been keeping on staring at the screen, mesmerized by what our doubtful eyes were seeing.
Then we burst out laughing.
Then we started worrying about how one could possibly categorize this crazy web 2.0 app.
The quirky idea IJML (that’s our short for I Just [...]
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Icons,
Menu & Navigation
Since I’m blogging, my Twitter’s contacts are growing in a freakish way. In a while, using Peepnote, an online application developed to keep your peeps (which is this app’s lingo for Twitter’s following) organized, will be more necessary than useful.
I love the interface’s vibrant colors and the warm appeal of the whole design, but what I [...]
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges
Aside from its beeing a blast and a really entertaining specimen of geeks literature, Ellis Weiners’ piece published on the New Yorker’s online edition helps me illustrate how a very simple vertical line and a little shot of red can trick our attention into reading an otherwise neglected content.
In the overall economy of New Yorkers’ [...]
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Comments & Call-out,
Typography
TehCpeng is Shen Hang’s personal blog: Shen’s a Malaysian engineering student, a capable photograph and a devotee of the-C-peng which is this visually stunning tea drink.
While we’re looking for where to find the-C-peng in Milan, we’d like to show you the cafeteria badge hanging on the top right corner and the red/yellow tabs, you can find [...]
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges,
Comments & Call-out