Here’s an old-school pattern that hasn’t gone the way of the dodo: left-aligned designs. Symmetry is great, but asymmetry? Even better. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Going dirty has never looked this good! It’s grungy websites this week on Friday Focus.

Just because monitors have gotten bigger doesn’t mean we should jump into wide layouts all the time. See how these designs make use of narrower widths effectively.

This week on Friday Focus: designs that are dressed in fine typography and details.

This week on Friday Focus: excellent websites that happen to have fixed elements in them.

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, let’s try our hand at wedding planning with these nicely designed websites. Whether your status is “single”, “in a relationship”, or “it’s complicated”, there’s no hurt in dreaming up the perfect wedding just like the kids used to do in their notebooks, and what better season than now? Have a lovely Friday Focus, everyone!

Subtlety is the name of the game this week on Friday Focus. We’re featuring designs with light hues and textures for a relaxing, elegant feel overall.

This week on Friday Focus: websites that are split right in the middle! A case of design schizophrenia? Let’s find out.

This week on Friday Focus: these folded, boxy 3D-looking designs pose an interesting challenge to the designer in creating perspective and breaking out of boundaries. See how these websites did it!

At one point in our internet lives, we learned to avoid typing in all caps, because it meant we were yelling. At another point, we became attachmented to typing in lowercase, because it looked and felt cool. We see a lot of designs going lowercase in many portions of text, but nowadays, going uppercase is is all the rage. These designs seem to pull that off quite well.

Who’s in the mood for some red designs this week? Let’s start the show!

Welcome to the first Friday Focus of the year and the new decade! Here are some fantastically designed websites that should inspire you to be more daring and adventurous than ever starting right now. Ready?