A List Apart has a nice illustration and detailed text for its 404 page.

Welcome to nothing is the perfect title for a 404 error page. Congratulations to the designer Ole Martin Kristiansen for being the first to use it.

Kidmondo error page is based on the product logo expression: in the plain version the kid’s smiling while here is sad.

Jeff Croft’s web site menu has a very pleasant ajax transition caused by mousing your mouse over any top label. Furthermore, the graphic of the selected item is consistent throughout the site and is used to create buttons and call-out elements.

The peculiarity of the rating system in Colectiva’s blog, a creative agency based in Guatemala, is that as you move the mouse over the heart icons to vote, they read FRESH. It’s a simple idea that diversifies the design of a component otherwise pretty similar to others.

Reading this Japanese blog that linked us using Google Translate is quite a surreal experience;: apparently Web & patterns matches the description “lead to heart to be the same design, web design collection.” Actually, I wanted to understand what it s the use of  the button with their hands applauding. I couldn’t find it. Nevertheless [...]

This 404 error page is really exhilarating. It comes from Chris Jennings’ blog, Ui Designer for Scraplog.

Fogde Morten Christensen’s blog beautiful infographics.

Boagworld footer is huge, but certainly full of interesting content for SEO: apart form that, this blog is a useful about web design and its issues.

Spacecollective is an ambitious project and, if we wish, even a little hazy in its premises: it’s about sharing knowledge on the human species, its environment and its future.  Posts are arranged as if they were cards: in this way you have an interesting effect as if the contents of the contributors were presented in [...]

A pleasantly retro style for this illustration taken from Mr. Aero, a web site/community dedicated to those who have a common passion for flying.

A font very characterised and used consistently gives soul and identity to this funny English blog.

How to draw a site dedicated to a sound? Or, as in this case, dedicated to a podcast?

Using oriented vertically texts in web. sites leaves me puzzled  I think this treatment should be reserved either in situations where the overall dimensions make it absolutely necessary or for short texts (e.g. often you see the Feedback button oriented vertically).

O and C concentrics in Michel Ferreira’s blog.

An example of grunge style applied to contacts form in the Kev Adamson’s blog, illustrator and designer .

The archive of beautiful illustrations of Spanish artist Alterebro is real clean and simple  and CSS friendly (in effect I don’t think it would take more than a class to build it). Mouse over links is fundamental to the reading when you deal with text with a poor contrast.

Rustin Jessen uses for the lettering of his blog dedicated to typography Adobe Caslon: does it still makes sense speaking of web fonts, web safe typefaces or systems fonts?

I think Swiss Miss’ error page is really funny.

When you invite someone to start a wizard, it’s always a good practice show how many steps are required for the enrollment, the strengths of your product /serivce or the benefits derived from an inscription. The numbered list of Scrapblog is a good example of this; besides buttons have a pleasantly unconventional form.

Using a mascot to characterize your website and so creating brand awareness is a current trend in web design.  The most important thing to keep in mind is using a custom designed mascot and avoiding stock images.

The logo on Jon Tan’s blog is made entirely with HTML code and CSS (no images).

  Interesting these buttons / logo: they make a uniform list of a bunch of different graphic elements.  The effect on mouse over (e.g. Videoegg.com) is also light and pleasant.

The most minimal way to represent a search form.

Zen minimalism? Absolute cleanliness? Radical chic?  How to describe the interface of this study of Japanese Interaction Designers?

I like blogs with a very rigid grid layout  and extreme use of typography.  Even when the colors are so sharp.

An absolutely typographic approach, based on an abundant use of Caslon for this blog with a retro style and a title full of good intentions.

The footer on Douglas Bowman’s blog, currently Creative Director in Twitter and, among other things, the former leader of Google Visual Design. Apart from being graphically impeccable, this is an excellent example of the increasing trend in using the bottom of the page to express something personal…in short, footers are no longer a simple layout [...]

On the web scene is hard to be surprised any more.  Instead, Econsultancy blog pleasantly surprises us with a logo that, according to the scrolling the page, change color from negative (white text on red background) to positive (red text on white background).