Welcome to the last Friday Focus of the month! This week we're featuring sites employing blocks of color as a dominant part of their designs. Who says we need to use gradients in everything we do? See how it's done. Designs of the Week Get solid WordPress themes, plugins, and web design training from iThemes. Always a good idea to grab inspiration from your logo and … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2012
Friday Focus 01/20/2012: Round and Round We Go
Where we stop, nobody knows! This week's Friday Focus showcases designs that spin around. First it was the fascination with rounded corners, and circles, and now it's rotating objects that's all the rage these days. Designs of the Week Every video is displayed in one of the three concentric wheels turning in opposite directions against one another. Clicking on the image … [Read more...]
Best Tea Websites for Inspiration
A couple of nations are well known for their love affair with tea: the United Kingdom, India, Australia and China are only a few examples. But the practice of drinking this herbal liquid is spreading to those regions where coffee was for so long the big seller. That is why you see more websites dedicated to information and exportation of rare and common teas popping up all … [Read more...]
Friday Focus 01/13/12: Keeping It Trim
This week's featured designs are staying fit and trim with these not-so-wide layouts. Happy Friday the 13th Focus! Designs of the Week Having a one-column site champions focus. Blogs often get cluttered with unnecessary information (I'm not even talking about ads) so here's it nice see that's not the case. Dashed lines repeat everywhere, and so do the raw treatment to the … [Read more...]
Friday Focus 01/06/12: Look Alive!
Our first Friday Focus for the New Year is all about animated designs, a bit on the subtle side but sure to pique your interest nonetheless. Designs of the Week The page first loads the logo, then clicking on it displays a trail of circular navigation items for each section of the site. Hovering on each runs a vertically scrolling animation in the background, each … [Read more...]
